Associate Director Software Engineering

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 subject matter 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, crafting, 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.

Being a member of the IT Application Dev squad, you will craft, develop, maintain and support DTCC s core Clearing and Settlement business applications.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.
• 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 deliverables.
• 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 contributes 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.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8-10 years of related experience
• Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Hands on experience in software development using Design Patterns, Java, typescript, Java EE, Spring Boot, Angular 8+, JMS, REST API, PL/SQL, Python.
• Experience with Micro Services & Layered (SOA/MVC) Architecture onPrem and Oncloud (AWS preferred).
• Familiar developing and running applications in Windows and Linux environments.
• Expertise in deploying scalable solutions in Kubernetes/docker containers that are highly resilient and perform well in an environment that talks to legacy systems and future centric micro architecture.
• Demonstrable experience in software development using CI/CD tools especially GIT, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Jira
• Experience using the following development tools: Visual Studio, IntelliJ, or Eclipse.
• Familiarity working with relational databases including DB2 or Oracle.
• Experience with microservices and event driven architecture.
• Experience with Apache Kafka (or Confluent Kafka), Kafka APIs and tooling (e.g., Kafka Connect, KStreams, KSQL)
• Proficiency in different phases of the system development life cycle including project planning, analysis, design, development, and testing.
• Proven focus on software testing with JUnit, Mockito, Jasmine, Karma.
• Familiarity with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong ability to gather and analyze requirements and translate them into technical specification.
• Writing and implementing the unit test scenarios / cases to ensure the code quality and reliability.
• Deep understanding of all lifecycle components (code, test, deploy)
• Ability to present designs to peers and Product Owner for approval.
• Fixing and debugging code to resolve technical issues.
• Optimizing application performance to ensure efficient use of software resources.
• Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.