Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

OCC • Dallas, TX

4d • $136,000 - $222,800 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Principal, Software Engineering will be a major contributor in the architecture design and development of scalable, resilient, hybrid cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities. This role involves mentoring and collaborating with developers, architects, and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization. The Associate Principal will lead through innovative strategic thinking in building solutions and will be a team player, working effectively with business, technical, and non-technical professionals in a project environment.

Requirements

• 8+ year of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 8+ is required.
• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
• Must be able to write good quality code with 90% or above unit and integration tests coverage.
• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
• Experience following Git workflows is required.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required.

Nice To Haves

• Risk analytics technology implementations experience a plus.
• Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks involving MapReduce techniques like Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc. is a plus.
• Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is desirable.
• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.
• Masters degree preferred.
• OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Actively participates and leads requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements. Must always look for assumptions made in the models and must always validate those assumptions of the models.
• Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions.
• Primarily responsibility is application design and development of next gen clearing applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.
• Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.
• Performs thorough code-reviews based on high engineering standards.
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks.
• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
• Assist with departmental and new employee training.
• Experience integrating modelling libraries required. Risk analytics technology implementations experience a plus.
• A major influencer & strategic thinker, this person should also mentor developers and collaborate across multiple cross functional team to achieve the desired outcome.

Benefits

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal