Senior Technology Leader Morningstar
Chicago, IL

Job Description

The Group: Morningstar, Inc., a leading global provider of independent investment research, is looking for an innovative and visionary leader to serve as a Senior Technology Leader in Morningstar's Data, Research & Index Products business. The Data Technology group is the central nervous system of consolidating, normalizing, calculating and distributing Morningstar's high-quality data and capabilities around that data for internal and external consumers. The individuals in this group thrive to ensure that we meet Morningstar's internal and external data needs with high quality, high satisfaction, in a technologically sound manner. The Team: The Data, Research & Index Product's group is a Product group responsible for the distribution of Morningstar's Intellectual Property via Data Feeds and Data APIs to both internal and external customers. The Role: The Senior Technology Leader will report directly to the Head of Technology. The selected candidate will take responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of technical projects; operating with scale, speed and quality. Working with other key technology and business leaders, the selected individual will establish best engineering practices and influence them through solid design decisions, processes, and tools across the broader engineering organization. The candidate will oversee a team of senior level engineers and will work with other areas in Data, Research and Index Products to constantly evolve our strategy to produce better end user outcomes and relevant offerings in the market. Responsibilities • Lead strategic technological planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and determining future direction of the group's technical strategy • Develop and contribute to our business plans, staffing, budgeting and process decisions that support both long-term and short-term objectives of the group • Work with team leads to continuously upgrade platforms, prioritizing initiatives that have the biggest impact on technical debt for the products • Partner closely with product leaders on strategic planning process, aligning technology vision and strategy with product and business direction, customer service strategy, growth strategies, and talent strategies • Own non-functional requirements, technology standards, architectural direction, technical documentation, and quality of the code • Maintain the highest levels of security, promoting a culture and practice of security awareness • Assess and monitor the impact of new technologies on our markets and product lines Requirements • 10+ years of experience managing sizable, global technology organizations, with proven team building and leadership skills • Bachelors of Science in CIS or related major required • Ability to interface and project confidence and clarity directly with senior leaders both internally at Morningstar and externally with institutional clients • Ability to convert strategic plans into actionable programs and projects • Ability to attract and retain talent • Ability to create and promote a culture of technology excellence and innovation • Experience with Java, AWS and various data storage, big data technology and streaming data processing • Experience with agile principles including test-driven development, continuous integration and test automation • Creative thinker with the ability to solve problems • Ability to communicate the technical possibilities and limitations of systems to non-technical colleagues in meaningful and constructive ways • Pragmatist who is bold, willing to think big, and encourage teams to act decisively • A belief in embracing both open-source and commercial tools and frameworks as well as SaaS, and having proven experience in making tradeoffs between competing alternatives Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer. 100_MstarResCanad Morningstar Research, Inc. (Canada) Legal Entity