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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas CityWhen you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Important Information

• United States citizenship is required for this position.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization.

• This is a hybrid role and requires working on-site, in Kansas City or Omaha, a minimum of 50% monthly.

About the Role

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (FRBKC) is seeking a software delivery manager to join the Post Payments Modernization program (PPM). PPM is an initiative to implement a modern cloud-based post-payments system for the United States Treasury.

The PPM team supports the development of cloud-based services that will be composed of a wide-range of technologies like Java, Angular, Python, Docker, Kafka and Kubernetes, plus Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies like S3, Lambda, EKS, SQS, Aurora, and many more.

The successful applicant will be responsible for managing software engineers, and software quality assurance analysts building these cloud services in an agile setting. If the collaborative, modern environment described above sounds exciting to you and you possess expertise in the end-to-end process of delivering software and managing agile teams, we invite you to apply to become part of our team.

Key Activities

• Models and champions the Bank’s values; is a steward of the Bank’s strong culture and sets clear expectations for others. Promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by respecting the different backgrounds and experiences of people and giving all employees the opportunity and resources needed to contribute, influence, and succeed.

• Demonstrates the behaviors outlined in the Bank’s leadership competencies; identifies and develops Bank leaders and employees. Recruits and retains diverse talent by driving engagement and supporting professional growth for employees and leaders through feedback, coaching, and development opportunities.

• Manages performance process and communicates clear expectations; engages direct reports in performance, coaching, and development conversations; and provides performance evaluations based on the results achieved against expectations. Leads and develops team(s) to make progress towards positive outcomes and execute on goals and priorities in alignment with the mission and strategy of the organization and business.

• Contributes perspective to make sound judgments, mitigate risks, influence direction, and manage and lead through change. Builds and applies business area knowledge, expertise, and/or broad perspective to influence and advance organization and business strategy and goals.

• Collaborates with leadership colleagues across the organization to develop a shared understanding of people practices, processes, terminology, etc. to ensure a collective employee experience.

• Builds trust and confidence through positive relationships and effective communication internally and externally.

Qualifications

• Typically requires at least 6 or more years in a formal leadership role or relevant informal leadership experiences.

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

• Consistently demonstrates leadership competencies across the business. Builds leadership competency in direct team and others in the business. Develops relationships and trust across the business, stakeholders, and customers through effective leadership. Supports people strategy and practices.

• Provides strategic input to execute department results. Leads across teams to implement creative solutions that advance the goals of the department.

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills. Consistently communicates effectively with different audiences and in broader settings. Demonstrates ability to adjust personal communication style in different groups to further effectiveness. Consistently manages difficult conversations effectively. Consistently collaborates with peers and upper leadership to find effective solutions.

• Fundamental understanding of software delivery processes and how technology is used to solve business problems.

• Works under limited oversight and is proactive with assignments. Identifies and confronts problems decisively, taking timely and appropriate actions; involves others in decisions, when appropriate, to take advantage of talents and skills; makes and/or influences decisions that benefit the business. Supports and develops software engineers to make sound decisions that benefit the business.

• Uses sound process to make decisions on moderate to complex business problems.

Additional Information

How We Work:

• Hybrid – Kansas City, MO or Omaha, NE (on-site 50% monthly)

• Remote – No

Salary:

• $79,400 - $109,100 / Assistant Manager

• $101,100 - $139,000 / Manager

• Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate’s qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location.

Screening: United States citizenship is required for this position. This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while preforming 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: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without an end date and without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

About Us

• Total Rewards & Benefits

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Who We Are

• 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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