Engineering Manager, GenAI

Essential Job Functions:

• Directly manage team(s) focused on delivering high quality project results within one or more major technology disciplines: strategy software development operations engineering development services information security and compliance.
• Focus on team leadership delivery of business value risk mitigation cost optimization and return on investment.
• Deliver results based upon FINRA annual goals department goals and management requests.
• Direct and coordinate organizations financial and budget activities to fund operations maximize investments and increase efficiency for a project(s).
• Ensure technology best practices are being implemented and improved within team(s).
• Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solutions and solve problems.
• Support the evaluation of new technologies techniques and tools.
• Report status and issues to senior Technology management team.
• Work directly with outside vendors to negotiate services and product agreements
• Willingness to lead take responsibility and offer options.
• Serve as a backup to more senior level management as needed.
• Develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with peers both within and outside of Technology and maintain them over time.
• Establish and maintain external relationships with strategic product/service vendors and industry forums (government & private councils standards bodies product forums etc.) as appropriate.
• Contribute to the establishment evolution and continued compliance with standard practices and processes within the disciplines.
• Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.
• Ensure all work products meets/exceeds FINRA standards and risks are effectively managed.
• Participate in periodic Disaster Recovery (DR) Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) testing and reporting.

Resource Management:

• Identify and hire resource/skills needed within their organization.
• Responsible for staff performance management and training.
• Coordinate assignment of subordinate staff.
• Demonstration of FINRAs values.
• Collaboration both in-person and virtually in furtherance of FINRAs mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Set the technical vision and architectural direction for knowledge framework integrations including data ingestion embedding pipelines and retrieval systems

Make key design decisions on pipeline architecture data modeling and search strategies balancing quality performance and delivery timelines

Evaluate and recommend technologies frameworks and approaches for knowledge integration challenges

Maintain sufficient hands-on involvement to provide credible technical guidance and unblock the team on complex problems

Demonstrate solid understanding of systems and processes within the domain and recommend improvements

Team Leadership & People Management

Manage mentor and develop a small team of software engineers fostering a culture of ownership collaboration and continuous improvement

Conduct regular one-on-ones provide constructive feedback and support career growth for direct reports

Plan and prioritize team workload balancing feature delivery technical debt and operational responsibilities

Recruit onboard and ramp new team members as the team scales

Champion collaborative resolution of defects and lead internal process improvement initiatives

Engineering Excellence & Quality

Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality testing documentation and peer review across the team

Guide the team in best practices for data pipeline development retrieval system design and test automation

Ensure comprehensive test coverage including unit testing integration testing and retrieval quality evaluation

Drive adoption of test-driven development (TDD) practices and automated quality gates

Planning & Delivery

Own the teams roadmap and delivery commitments translating business requirements into actionable technical plans

Break down complex integration initiatives into well-scoped work items with clear acceptance criteria

Track progress identify risks early and adjust plans to meet deadlines without sacrificing quality

Provide regular status updates and delivery forecasts to leadership

Stakeholder Collaboration

Partner with product platform engineering and agent development teams to align knowledge integration priorities with broader platform goals

Communicate complex or technical information at the appropriate level for diverse audiences including leadership peers and external partners

Represent the team in cross-functional planning sessions architecture reviews and prioritization discussions

Build strong working relationships across the organization to facilitate collaboration and shared accountability

Generative AI & Emerging Technologies

Stay informed of advances in RAG architectures embedding models retrieval optimization and knowledge management approaches

Evaluate emerging technologies and techniques for applicability to the teams work making build-vs-buy recommendations

Drive innovation within the team by creating space for experimentation and proof-of-concept work

Security & Compliance

Ensure all team deliverables meet or exceed organizational standards for secure development practices

Oversee secure handling of sensitive domain data throughout the ingestion and retrieval lifecycle

Assist with adherence to technology policies and ensure the team complies with all security controls

Participate in threat modeling and security discussions for data pipeline and infrastructure components

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related discipline with at least five (5) years of related experience or equivalent training and/or work experience; Masters degree and past Financial Services industry experience preferred.

• Minimum of 3 years of managing technical programs and/or processes including staff management of at least four (4) resources and budget of at least $1 million annually.

• Knowledge of business technology and management principles involved in strategic planning organizational change management resource allocation human resources modeling leadership technique and coordination of people and resources.

• Experience must include direct project experience in one of the following areas: strategy software development operations engineering development services information security and/or compliance.

• Extensive knowledge of industry leading technology best practices including familiarity with technology methodologies including at least one of ISO-9000 ITIL Agile and iterative.

• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships and leverage those relationships to improve the quality of work products.

• Must be able to identify evaluate and recommend processes tools technologies and/or products to meet business and budgetary requirements.

• Should be well organized thorough and able to handle competing priorities.

• Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

Work Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements.

• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.

For work that is performed in CO FL TX IL PA MA MD VA Washington DC NY and NJ please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the addition to location actual compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to the candidates skill set level of experience education and market considerations.

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Salary $114200 Maximum Salary $207200

IL/PA: Minimum Salary $125900 Maximum Salary $228000
MA/MD/VA/Washington DC: Minimum Salary $131200 Maximum Salary $238300

NY/NJ: Minimum Salary $131200 Maximum Salary $248700

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Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off 5 personal days and 9 sick days unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave jury duty leave bereavement leave voting and election official leave for federal state or local primary and general elections care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

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