RSM International Looking for Platform Director – Tax IT, Nationwide – Remote at Chicago, Illinois Full Time

Platform Director – Tax IT, Nationwide – Remote

Chicago, IL
Corporate Information Technology

Job Description

Req ID: req25603

Platform Director – Tax IT, Nationwide – Remote Summary:

The Platform Director will mentor and oversee design, development, testing and deployment activities for RSM’s enterprise portal product and related enterprise products that enhance customer and employee experiences by delivering solutions that seamlessly work together, are easy to use and cost effective. The Platform Director will initiate process improvement, provide strategic direction, and present well planned out technical recommendations to senior management regarding custom pro-code and platform-based low-code development solutions. The Platform Director will be responsible for the technical success and maintenance of the platform. The Platform Director will be responsible for personnel and dealing with personnel issues as well as performance evaluations and goal setting. This role will accurately assess staffing requirements and planning

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Empowers and leads multi-disciplined teams to deliver outstanding value to the business by ensuring operational excellence at every level. Responsible for delivering and maintaining high quality software solutions, particularly custom developed enterprise portal solutions that are tightly integrated to other enterprise and LOB specific systems.
• Ensures that the team can make excellent technical and architectural decisions with minimal roadblocks and align with technical best practices and vision for scalability and reliability. Conducts design reviews to make sure that Epics and Features are aligned to the business needs. Ensures that the needs for great user experience and ease of use are balanced with needs for time to market and reliability of the solution.
• Responsible for mentoring and coaching existing staff and ensures career growth options for different levels, and recruits world class talent for creating a high performing team. Demonstrates effective leadership and communicates performance expectations, feedback on performance, recognition, employee counseling reports and/or discipline including termination. Builds and maintains a culture of speed, excellence, collaboration, mentorship, and open feedback aligned with the firm’s values.
• Responsible for resource planning for projects, programs, and DevOps activities. Identifies team capacity and capability needs to support the platform and monitors utilization of team members. Maintains relationship with vendors for external sourcing needs.
• Manages the lifecycle and roadmaps for tools, services, technical debt and technology that support the design and software engineering activities.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of design and software engineering standards and guidelines. Ensure the standards are followed using automated and manual techniques.
• Create budget for submission into the department budget and accountable to manage within approved areas of responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field is required; Master’s Degree is preferred
• Microsoft Azure certification are preferred

TECHNICAL/SOFT SKILLS

• Strong experience in product design, software technical architecture and software engineering disciplines for building large scale customer facing solutions
• 7+ years developing and delivering custom software solutions required
• Experience with leading edge cloud technologies to build and deploy reliable and scalable products
• Firm understanding of the Agile software development life cycle
• Stays current on development trends and new technologies
• Understands the products and services offered by the Firm, and synthesize them for different audiences
• Eloquent communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrated experience leading the building, implementation, and support of enterprise portals
• Extensive experience leading agile teams in a collaborative product and software engineering environment
• Strong Experience leading, scaling, and developing diverse software engineering teams
• Experience mentoring teams through problem resolution and encouraging staff to share responsibility in problem solving
• Experience with personnel management. Resolving conflicts timely and beneficially to all concerned
• Experience with .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Azure, React, JavaScript, HTML, SQL Server, and microservices are required
• Strong API, microservices and integration enablement technology is required
• Good understating of CI/CD, and Azure DevOps is preferred

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Progressive experience leading software engineering teams
• Strong learning, analytical and strategic leadership mindset
• Ability to lead geographically distributed teams

You want your next step to be the right one. You’ve worked hard to get where you are today. And now you’re ready to use your unique skills, talents and personality to achieve great things. RSM is a place where you are valued as an individual, mentored as a future leader, and recognized for your accomplishments and potential. Working directly with clients, key decision makers and business owners across various industries and geographies, you’ll move quickly along the learning curve and our clients will benefit from your fresh perspective.

Experience RSM US. Experience the power of being understood.

RSM is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.

Location Street Address: 191 North Wacker Dr Ste 1400, Chicago, IL 60 USA
Region: National
Position Type: Experienced
Job Type: Full Time
Degree Required: None
Travel Required: Yes
Sponsor candidates who are not eligible to work in US: No
Requisition ID: req25603