Lead Software Engineer

FINRA•Rockville, MD

3d•$193,066 - $238,300•Hybrid

About The Position

Oversee the development of software products and work on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Oversee and manage software processes, projects, and products to improve efficiency within the organization and product area. Oversee software systems and processes and recommend improvements. Design and develop industry-leading software solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives. Identify gaps between system components and design and deliver technical solutions. Implement methods for managing and maintaining the organization’s software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds. Develop actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicate integration recommendations to management. Identify ways to overcome challenging technical situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals. Ensure comparison of tasks and quality of work, supporting peers to ensure the team delivers consistently. Provide guidance to colleagues in techniques and processes.

Requirements

Designing and implementing cloud architectures on AWS Cloud (EKS, EC2, RDS, EMR, S3, Lambda, IAM, and VPC) and building scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
Big Data technologies: Apache Spark, EMR, Hadoop ecosystem, data lakes, and distributed processing frameworks.
Utilizing SQL for query optimization, analytics functions, performance tuning, and managing large datasets.
Data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions, and Glue).
DevOps practices and tools: Jenkins for CI/CD automation and pipeline development, Jira for agile project management, sprint planning, DevOps workflow tracking, and Infrastructure as-code (Terraform and CloudFormation).
Data governance, security controls, encryption, IAM, and compliance in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Oversee the development of software products and work on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Oversee and manage software processes, projects, and products to improve efficiency within the organization and product area.
Oversee software systems and processes and recommend improvements.
Design and develop industry-leading software solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives.
Identify gaps between system components and design and deliver technical solutions.
Implement methods for managing and maintaining the organization’s software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds.
Develop actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicate integration recommendations to management.
Identify ways to overcome challenging technical situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals.
Ensure comparison of tasks and quality of work, supporting peers to ensure the team delivers consistently.
Provide guidance to colleagues in techniques and processes.

Benefits

PTO
Paid leave (military, jury duty, bereavement, voting, care of a family member, & childbirth)
Paid holidays
OT
Bonus
Health, dental, & vision
Basic life, AD&D, suppl. life, spouse/DP & dependent life, spouse/DP & dependent AD&D, STD, LTD, LTC, BTA, disability, & legal
401(k) w/ match & add’l FINRA-funded retirement contrib.
Tuition reimb.
Commuter benefits
Adoption asst.
Backup family care
Surrogacy benefits
Employee asst.
Wellness programs