The Data Science Team at College Board provides critical insights and tools to help executive leadership, technology teams, and business units optimize test delivery, test development, and test security. This role is to provide technical leadership and manage a team to create, sustain, deliver, and articulate complex solutions.
Requirements
- 10 years’ experience in Agile software application development, applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of life-cycle activities to meet the requirements for highly secure, data-heavy applications.
- Proven expertise in delivering high-priority products or services and leading large, strategic areas with significant organizational impact.
- Proficiency in verifying technical designs and advising on improvements.
- Ability to influence senior leaders on engineering strategy.
Responsibilities
- Sort through options for solutioning, leveraging your own technical expertise.
- Provide guidance to team members on best practices and approaches based on deep knowledge of stakeholder needs.
- Act as an arbiter as needed for technical decisions.
- Manage scope and actively work against developing technical debt.
- Monitor and manage costs, working with internal resources to optimize the cost and performance of applications.
- Approach every project with a security-sensitive perspective.
- Maintain operational services with high fidelity until no longer relevant or handed over to a new team.
Other
- Provide technical leadership to the team (20%)
- Build and maintain a highly engaged, and high-performing team (40%)
- Interface with Business Partners and Technology Leadership colleagues (40%)
- A track record of managing teams to deliver impactful results, with comprehensive people management experience.
- Strong skills in planning, prioritization, and execution, delivering results on time and on budget in fast-paced environments.
- Exceptional communication and leadership abilities, building trust and mentoring teams to success.
- Steadiness under heavy pressure, producing significant output with minimal wasted effort.
