Principal Software Engineer

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth domain expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, detailing technical requirements, designing, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end-users in the development and improvement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.

What You'll Do:

• Lead needed technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications.
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements.
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions.
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements.
• implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards.
• Partner with multi-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project work.
• Handle the software development process.
• Drive new technical and business process improvements.
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense.
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and gives to the solution design.
• Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Troubleshoot and debug system component(s) to resolve technical issues during critical production issues
• Partner with application support engineers to resolve critical production issues by participating in Major Incident calls and driving root cause analysis
• Participate in Disaster Recovery / Loss of Region events (planned and unplanned) performing tasks and collecting evidence.

Qualification:

• Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent work experience.

Talents Needed for Success:

• 10+ of Active Development Experience/ Expertise in Java/J2EE Based Applications proven ability with Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC.
• Solid experience in Angular front end.
• Experience using NodeJS and NPM.
• Experience in Web based UI development and SPA Development.
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React Angular).
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components.
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, JaCoCo and Maven.
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills (Postgres preferred).
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology.
• Monitoring and Data Tools experience (Splunk, DynaTrace).
• Cloud Technologies (AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda, SQS, IAM roles), Azure, OpenShift, RDS Aurora, Postgres).
• Good understanding of all software design patterns and understanding of Event driven architectures.
• Good understanding of testing methodologies and strategies.
• Good understanding of testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG and automation frameworks such as Selenium.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively.

Nice to have:

• Serves as a trusted coach or mentor within the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.