Job Description:

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Position Description:

Leads the development of software applications on Cloud using Java, Python, Oracle, Angular, and Kafka, to support portfolio management, investing, and trading systems. Designs, develops, and modifies complex and major software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design. Manages software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation. Ensures the chapter talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities to increase business value and results. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex and multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.

• Participates in high-level, cross- functional architecture design teams.

• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.

• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.

• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.

• Consults on the documentation of major technology application.

• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.

• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.

• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.

• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.

• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.

• Advises senior management on technical strategy.

• Researches and recommends new technologies.

• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.

• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.

• Identifies and plans for future resource needs.

• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Full Stack Engineering (or closely related occupation) building highly-scalable distributed systems using modern front-end frameworks (Angular and Node.js) and middle-tier technologies (Java and J2EE) in a financial services domain. 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Full Stack Engineering (or closely related occupation) building highly-scalable distributed systems using modern front-end frameworks (Angular and Node.js) and middle-tier technologies (Java and J2EE) in a financial services domain.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing technology strategy for legacy application modernization, highly scalable web applications, and distributed event and streaming systems; and designing and developing high performant event driven and streaming applications, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workflows, and data integrations, using application and data integration technologies, and messaging technologies (IBM integration, MQ, Kafka, and Informatica) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the public Cloud in a financial services domain.  

• DE designing and developing highly scalable distributed Web applications, using JAVA/J2EE, Python, and front-end Web technologies (Angular/REACT, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, and Bootstrap); and developing RESTful Application Programming Interface (APIs) for integration with front-end applications. 

• DE designing unit, functional, integration, Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development (TDD and BDD), and performance testing to ensure application quality and reliability, using test frameworks and mocking tools (Jmeter, JUnit, Jasmine, Karma, Cypress, or Playwright). 

• DE implementing and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to maintain development and deployment pipeline health, using Git, Jenkins, and uDeploy on AWS; enabling Blue/Green deployments; and implementing monitoring and logging standards to enable production support, using APM tools (Datadog and Newrelic).

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Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

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