VP / Managing Director of iSeries and zSeries Core Lending Systems

OneMain Financial (OMF) is seeking a Vice Presidents, Managing Director of Core Lending Systems. As OMF expands its market verticals, a multi-product strategy is evolving to penetrate markets through compelling customer engagement. Our core lending systems operate on the IBM iSeries and zSeries, supporting multiple products across our Originations and Servicing business components. As OneMain’s offerings evolve, we must rearchitect and redesign aspects of our lending service systems. This evolution pursues several key objectives – support cross-product functionality, increase reliability, resiliency and performance, and evolve the core lending platform architecture moving capabilities to better enabling substrates.

The leader of these platforms will directly manage the engineering teams responsible for platform delivery. The VP-MD will evolve a highly skilled engineering organization focused on software craftsmanship. The leader will chart the course for how the platforms engage against business priorities, working closely with product teams, and evolving the architecture and technology solutions of the platforms to support OneMain’s multi-product ecosystem.

The VP-MD will be both experienced with IBM iSeries and zSeries solution domains and data-centric implementation strategies on these platforms. They will have delivered solutions which are mixed IBM on-prem / AWS hybrid and have demonstrated a drive toward leveraging cloud solutions. Experience delivering full stack solutions to include enterprise service bus, orchestration engines, and front-end systems (e.g., Java, Ruby). Along with assessing and cultivating the engineering talent on the platform teams, the VP-MD will be responsible for driving modernization through iterative development, software craft, platform architecture, quality engineering, DevOps, and automation where possible.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Establish objectives and key results (OKRs) for the financial platforms, working with peers and engineering leadership to align OKRs against product priorities and business OKRs.

• Establish a prioritization and interaction model between the platforms and product delivery teams which gains early visibility into business needs and prioritization, how platform work is prioritized and deconflicted across product needs, and how platform improvements are driven against business and product team needs.

• Inspire and cultivate an engineering-centric organization, motivating individuals to advance their craft. Assess talent and determine buy/hold/sell. Attract new engineering talent which raises the bar of platform teams and further drives a zeal for software craft.

• Establish a strategy for providing both platform self-service for product teams along with a method for providing specialized knowledge and support to product teams necessary for complex factors in platform interaction.

• Establish strong working relationships with engineering leaders, product and business partners.

• Effectively make the case for triage on business and product demands against platform evolution, health and stability.

• Strategically elevate the value of data at OneMain, unlocking the potential opportunities in data analytics and decisioning through a strategic view of data and how the platform can facilitate data-centric products and initiatives.

• Work close with organizational leaders in Quality Engineering, DevOps, Product Architecture and Production Operations to drive maturity (performance, resiliency, cycle time reduction) of the software delivery ecosystem that includes platforms, products and ultimately the environments in which they operate.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years of experience leading employee/contractor blended organizations.

• Demonstrated proficiency in managing priorities in a dynamic, geographically disparate workforce.

• 10+ years working with Iterative and Incremental methods (e.g., SCRUM).

• 10+ years of experience selecting and negotiating 3rd party products and services.

• 5+ years defining compelling job descriptions, attracting and hiring industry-leading talent, in both employee and contractor roles.

• 5+ years of experience leading on-prem to cloud-based technology organization transformation.

• Bachelor's Degree computer science, hard sciences, or engineering is preferred, master’s degree is desirable or equivalent professional experience for either degree.

• Strong familiarity with cloud-based and on-prem integration patterns.

• Experience delivering strategic presentations to C-suite and board leadership, as well as public speaking experience as a technology domain leader.

• Supported organizations with multiple lines of business, with systems and products that have both vertical and cross-cutting business aspects.

• Demonstrated experience leveraging DevOps pipelines with high automation for quality maturity and cycle-time reduction.

Target base salary range is $180k - $220k which is based on various factors including skills, work experience, and location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a competitive additional compensation program that is based on individual and company performance.

This role is Hybrid. You should be located within a commutable distance to one of our offices located in Baltimore MD, Charlotte NC, Wilmington DE, Evansville IN, or Dallas/Fort Worth TX.

Who we Are

OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future.

Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain.

Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with: 

• Health and wellbeing options for team members and their dependents

• Up to 4% matching 401(k)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)

• Tuition reimbursement

• Continuing education

• Bonus eligible

• Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date)

• Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date)

• Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date)

• And more

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