Director, IT Solutions Job Listing at DriveTime in Tempe, AZ (Job ID R10323)

Description

What's Under the Hood

DriveTime Family of Brands is the largest privately owned used car sales finance & servicing company in the nation. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Dallas, Texas, we create opportunities and improve the lives of our customers and our employees by placing a focus on putting the right customer, in the right vehicle, on the right terms and on their path to ownership.

The DriveTime Family of Brands spans across DriveTime, Bridgecrest and SilverRock.  You can find us at the intersection of technology and innovation as we use our proprietary tools and over two decades of industry knowledge to redefine the process of purchasing, financing, and protecting your vehicle. 

That's Nice, But What's the Job?

In short, as a remote Director, IT Solutions for the Software Engineering groups at DriveTime, you'll be responsible for leading the engineering teams that create custom software solutions for a line of business. You will work with a wide variety of business and IT leaders to help your teams achieve their technology goals in an organized and timely manner.

In long…

• Act as a strategic & technical liaison within a specific line of business
• Transform business problems into technical solutions
• Intimate familiarity with software development KPI's and how to use them to drive meaningful change with your teams.
• Ability to effectively communicate amongst both technical & non-technical stakeholders while driving alignment; recognizes and snuffs out subjectivity
• Understands that expectations are at the core of misalignment and proactively manages expectations across disparate stakeholders, roles, disciplines, and teams
• Capable of understanding technology, business strategy, and how the two need to intersect to maximize value
• Create, own, and communicate relevant roadmap details that deliver on larger scale features across numerous stakeholders that are both strategic and technical
• Work with Product and Engineering groups to plan out technical initiatives 1-2 years out in front of the implementation teams.
• Ensure technical decisions align with company roadmap and vision; challenge the engineering teams as needed
• Foster a collaborative and transparent work environment
• Ability to navigate both the quantitative and qualitative to shape team and product-line outcomes
• Ample exposure and familiarity collating data, aggregating data, distilling data, and finding ways to report on the data for engineering team consumption
• Comfortability challenging the status quo while remaining pragmatic when doing so
• Organization is at your core both personally & professionally

What is Required (Qualifications):

• 10+ years of experience in custom software delivery with leadership responsibilities.
• Extensive experience & strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies (Epics, Features, Stories, Tasks, etc…) along with what level of detail you need for each to be successful
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly shifting environment
• Bachelor's degree required

So What About the Perks? Perks matter

• Medical, dental, and vision, oh my! DriveTime Family of Brands covers a sizable amount of insurance premiums to ensure our employees receive top-tier healthcare coverage. 
• But Wait, There's More. 401(K), Company paid life insurance policy, short and long-term disability coverage to name a few.
• Growth Opportunities. You grow, I grow, we all grow!  But seriously, DriveTime Family of Brands is committed to providing its employees with every opportunity to grow professionally with roughly over 1,000 employees promoted year over year.
• Tuition Reimbursement. We're as passionate about your professional development as you are. With that, we'll put our money where our mouth is.
• Wellness Program. Health is wealth! This program includes self-guided coaching and journeys, cash incentives and discounts on your medical premiums through engaging in fun activities!
• Gratitude is Green.  We offer competitive pay across the organization, because, well… money matters!

• In-House Gym. We want our employees to be the best versions of themselves. So come early, take a break in your day or finish strong with a workout!
• Give Us a Reason (or not), and We'll Celebrate.  Regardless of whether there is a holiday or not, we are finding ways to kick back and enjoy each other's company outside of day-to-day work.
• Smart-Casual Dress. Come dressed in jeans (you'll fit right in with the rest of us).

• Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays. Not just lip service: we work hard, to play hard.

• Company Driver. It's one of the coolest perks of being who we are! We've got your insurance, maintenance, and cost of vehicle covered; you just keep gas in the tank.

Anything Else?  Absolutely.

DriveTime Family of Brands is Great Place to Work Certified! And get this: 90% of our rockstar employees say they feel right at home here.  We could spend a lot of time having you read about ALL our awards, but we'll save time (and practice some humility) just naming a few others; Comparably Awards: Best Company for Diversity, Best Company Culture and Best Company Leadership, oh and don't forget Phoenix Business Journal Healthiest Employers (okay, we'll stop there)!

Hiring is contingent upon successful completion of our background and drug screening process. DriveTime is a drug-free, tobacco-free workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

And when it comes to hiring, we don't just look for the right person for the job, we seek out the right person for DriveTime. Buckle up for plenty of opportunities to grow in a professional, fun, and high-energy environment!