Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH®, and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Over time, FRFS will offer an increasingly integrated set of Federal Reserve payment services, incorporating the FedNowSM Service upon its market entry. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, we will seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and we will create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

You would manage a small quality engineering team (10-15 direct reports) as well as be accountable for the quality of mission critical applications. Responsibilities include:

• Partner with Product Owner, Development, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure (NIT) organizations providing thought leadership in testing of mission critical applications.

• Ability to work on multiple tasks while coaching others simultaneously to produce high quality deliverables.

• Influences the team with strong working knowledge of test automation and performance testing techniques with the ability to understand implementation value and complexities.

• Responsible for providing guidance and leadership to software test engineers, including hands on testing,and troubleshooting of complex applications.

• Coaches all team members on quality culture from vision to implementation.

• Demonstrates strong innovation, influencing, negotiating skills, and strategic agility.

• Collaborate with other members of a cross-disciplinary team operating within the agile SAFE framework to consistently deliver Product improvements according to the guidelines.

Managerial responsibilities of the job include:

• Writing and Conducting performance appraisals for the team members

• Identifying training needs in collaboration with other leadership

• Mentoring and coaching team members

• Recruiting and on/off boarding

• In conjunction with architecture and other leaders, ensure consistency in usage of development best practices, standards,tools, and processes.

What we are looking for:

The candidate would lead team of quality engineers of mission critical applications. The position is for a leader who has hands-on software engineering as well as leadership experience. The candidate will be responsible for delivering quality in applications based on the established FRB system architecture and will be involved in the entire delivery life cycle supporting Agile SAFE teams.

Required Technical Skills:

• Minimum 8-10 of experience with Java/J2EE distributed application and strong understanding of object-oriented programming.

• Strong knowledge of testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, UFT, HP ALM among others in preferred.

• Experience with Messaging (MQ/JMS) based Integration applications.

• Strong knowledge of SQL, stored procedures (PL/SQL) and database fundamentals.

• Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps concepts.

• Experience and understanding of Cloud based architecture and technology.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or work experience.

Required Leadership Skills

• Typically requires at least 6 years in a formal leadership role or relevant informal leadership experiences. 2+ years of leadership experience with software engineering, quality assurance, site reliability engineering, or performance engineering is preferred.

• Experience implementing a comprehensive technical and performance testing background, including troubleshooting performance testing observations and issues.

• Experience working in systems, tracking, and coordinating multiple efforts at any given time for functional/regression and performance testing.

• Ability to guide & coach other test engineers in functional/regression testing, performance testing, and automated testing best practices.

• Strong ability to help a team in all facets of the delivery cycle from analysis of requirements, design, development through implementation.

• Builds strong partnerships with business, operations, infrastructure, and other key stakeholder groups.

• Strong ability to analyze risks, issues, and other data in supporting teams reachingactionable decisions.

• Strong understanding of supporting mission critical applications ensuring excellentcustomer support.

• Ability to provide performance feedback and career planning with staff.

Additional Information:

· Screening Requirements: This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.

· Sponsorship : Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

About Us:

· Total Rewards & Benefits (https://www.kansascityfed.org/careers/benefits/)

· Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (https://www.kansascityfed.org/about-us/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/)

· Who We Are (https://www.kansascityfed.org/careers/who-we-are/)

· What We Do (https://www.kansascityfed.org/careers/what_we_do/)

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Supervisory/Management

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.

OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.

Why Our People Choose Us:

Our reputation precedes us

There will always be room for personal growth

Our people are first

You’ll find the right balance

Your responsibilities will be meaningful

We hope that you will be our future colleague.