Senior Director, Risk Engineering

Company Overview

WEX is an innovative global commerce platform and payments technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, to simplify the business of doing business for customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love and care about. We are journeying to build a consistent world-class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer-focused innovations across all our strategic initiatives, including big data, AI, and Risk.

Position Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated, technically deep, and experienced Engineering leader to join and manage a group of high-performing engineers in the Risk area. This is a really exciting time to be in risk technology at WEX. We are hiring for a cross-functional initiative with the goal of creating a modern, cloud-based technology ecosystem to allow WEX to be more nimble, faster to market, and open to emerging business opportunities, while keeping regulations, policy, and risk mitigation top of mind.

The vision of this integrated risk platform is to enable streamlining how WEX interacts with customers - from creating accounts, maintaining and expanding relationships, and monitoring for good health and risk through a number of vectors. With strong risk control and management, this platform will allow WEX to more effectively grow our business and customer base in a much faster and safer way together with improved customer experience.

This Sr Director will report to the SVP of Data, AI, and Risk Technology, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. This role can also be in Chicago, Portland, Maine (WEX HQ), or Boston. An ideal candidate will have a rich experience in the Risk area and Risk Platform development, an established background in developing complex software platforms, deep engineering skills and technical ability, outstanding people leadership with a track record of growing/building strong and productive global teams, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive the development of technology and platform for the company's Risk needs, ensuring the functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of the Risk Platform.
• Own the technology and architecture of the Risk platform and services.
• Challenge the status quo and hold a high bar to drive for better technical solutions to effectively serve all the needs in the broad risk area of WEX.
• Closely partner with the leaders in the Risk Product org and the Risk & Compliance org to understand business needs and jointly come up with technical solutions.
• Grow and build a strong global risk engineering team, including high talent attraction and hiring.
• Partner with other leaders in the Data, AI, and Risk org to leverage the Data, Data Platform, and AI Platform for the needs of Risk.
• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
• Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management and partners.
• Drive the technical vision and strategy of Risk to serve the business needs.
• Set a high bar, and provide technical guidance and effective training & mentorship to the engineering teams.
• Partner with the security org and SRE org to ensure continuous improvement and meeting of security requirements.

Qualifications & Experience

• A technically deep, innovative, empathetic, and passionate leader able to act and deliver to the business needs.
• 10+ years of software design and development experience at a large scale, with 5+ years of people management experience.
• Deep technically; hands-on in architecture design, development, deployment, and production operation; familiar with agile software development.
• Extensive experience in the risk area, including architecting and developing Risk platforms.
• Good understanding and experience in Data and ML/AI, as well as applying those to solve risk problems.
• Broad understanding of cloud architecture tools and services, such as S3, EMR, Kubernetes, Lambda functions.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and partnership skills.
• Experience leading global teams and growing top engineering talent.
• Excellent analytical skills; capability in identifying and resolving complex problems.
• Able to drive action and make clear decisions, leveraging analytics.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field; a higher degree is a plus.

Leadership & Personal Characteristics

• Demonstrates a collaborative, engaging, mission-driven style with good listening skills.
• Champions a culture of high standards, embraces change and challenges the status quo.
• Able to operate in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment with a hands-on approach.
• Leads with empathy and promotes a culture of trust, transparency, and inclusion.
• Communicates effectively in small and large group formats.
• Talent magnet, talent developer, and talent scout.
• Possesses a high level of intellectual curiosity and learning agility.
• Understands nuance and how to drive change through influence.

The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. WEX's comprehensive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being.

Pay Range: $201,000.00 - $267,000.00