Major League Baseball is looking for an experienced Director of Software Engineering to lead their Consumer Identity platform, aiming to make transformational changes to modernize the platform and enhance user experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on software development
- 5+ years serving as lead or architect of software development projects
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- 3+ years building identity and access management platforms
- Strong application knowledge of IAM concepts, technologies, and best practices, including SSO/Federation and MFA
- Working knowledge of the OKTA platform and/or Auth0
- Cloud service architectures and strategies (GCP, Amazon)
Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee the team responsible for building and maintaining aspects of MLB's core platform for identity services.
- Assist in the platform's design and architecture.
- Lead the build and maintenance of a modern identity platform.
- Cultivate a deep understanding of the day-to-day identity domain.
- Facilitate the design and implementation of new engaging features for users.
- Build necessary controls from a security, fraud, and compliance perspective.
- Ensure a high-throughput, low-latency, best-in-class experience for MLB fans.
Other
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product Leadership to develop engineering roadmaps
- Lead and motivate by presenting technical and organizational vision and feedback
- Support teams as they transform requirements into actionable development plans
- Work cross functionally to form coalitions around initiatives
- Contribute to our inclusive culture to ensure team satisfaction and engagement
- Manage vendor relationships for partner platforms and software services technologies
- Participate in an agile environment
- Participate in the full software development life cycle (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing and maintenance)
- Participate in and lead triage efforts during production incidents
- Lead and take ownership of critical features and your own initiatives
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards related to identity management and security
- Influence the innovation of products used by millions of users worldwide
- Mentor and coach engineers in your team and across the organization to build a strong engineering-focused culture
- Work with peers throughout the engineering organization to lead and influence strategic technology initiatives
- Influence the way that baseball is consumed by millions of users worldwide
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- Recruiting, performance management, talent development
- Agile process and SRE best-practices
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Observability and application performance monitoring
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Experience with consumer facing services and high-scale systems
- Experience working with identity and/or authorization systems
- Understanding of deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure
