Head of Technology

Description

The Head of Technology will have overall responsibility of leading a remote engineering team based across multiple locations in India, supporting the architecture strategy, delivering products & services in line with the product roadmap, and build, manage and support CFRA's infrastructure as well as our processes and procedures.

The ideal candidate has a passion for solving business problems with technology and can effectively communicate with stakeholders. We are looking for candidates that value collaboration with colleagues and having an immediate, tangible impact for a leading global independent financial insights and information company.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure engineering team develops high-quality, high-performance, scalable applications using best practices and the latest generation of technologies
• Work collaboratively with product, data, and technology stakeholders to refine roadmaps for technical solutions
• Provide technical leadership to multiple teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Mentor, grow, and work with a skilled team while shaping the future of our products and balancing headcount budget
• Create and maintain a culture of continuous learning and improvement of both the engineering team and CFRA systems
• Lead in planning, implementation, and optimization of CFRA's AWS cloud infrastructure and other infrastructure related costs
• Lead in building and maintaining of self-service Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) tooling to support configurations, deployment, monitoring, observability, and lifecycle management of a wide range of compute workloads and services
• Work closely with solutions architects, application developers, and quality assurance testers to advocate a DevSecOps culture within the team
• Plan and assist leadership in security and compliance audits
• Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions
• Lead automation initiatives across the team especially within the QA area
• Stay current with new technology options and vendor products, evaluating which ones would be a good fit for the organization

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Desired Skills

Benefits

About CFRA

CFRA is a leading independent investment insights and data analytics company. Through an unmatched multidisciplinary approach to investment research, including expert lenses on forensic accounting, fundamental, policy, legal, fund, and technical research, CFRA provides actionable analytics to make better investment and business decisions. CFRA is results-oriented, we place an unwavering priority on the quality of our research, from the productivity and performance of our analysts to the success of our client relationships. Over 2,000 clients rely on CFRA's proprietary research conducted by experts who uniquely analyze industries, funds and companies of interest with our time-tested and rigorous research methodology.

On October 1, 2016, CFRA acquired S&P Global's Equity and Fund Research business, a leading provider of independent research and commentary with offerings focused on stocks, ETFs and mutual funds as well as sectors and industries. The Equity and Fund Research business originated in the 1920's and has amassed a worldwide base of investing clients.

With the addition of Washington Analysis in 2021, CFRA further strengthens its already robust research and data offerings. CFRA clients will now be able to leverage Washington Analysis' unique and in-depth research specializing in identifying risks and opportunities across asset-classes emanating from U.S. courts, Congress, and regulators, at both the state and federal levels.

The combined firm is committed to being the world's leading independent investment research firm with 90 global analysts, authoring in-depth qualitative research on 1,600+ companies. In addition, CFRA offers a comprehensive view on global sector themes, industries, and funds, through in-depth qualitative research on 11 Sectors, 73 Industries, 19,000+ ETFs, 15,000+ Mutual Funds, as well as quantitative company research on 20,000+ global companies.

Founded as the 'Center for Financial Research and Analysis' in 1994, today our company is simply known as CFRA. However, our mission remains to be the 'center' for our global clients by providing independent, differentiated, and actionable analysis to help you make better investment and business decisions.

Our clients are based in the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia representing thousands of investment professionals and risk managers at leading hedge funds, mutual funds, pension managers, insurance companies, private equity, investment advisors, banks, regulators, corporations, and professional service organizations.

Skills Required

Amazon S3, Artifactory, Lambda, Batch, Ec2, Terraform, Mysql, Sonarqube, Agile, Route 53, Api Gateway, Aws, Rds, Cloud Formation, bedrock , Sql, Jenkins, Iam, glue