Principal Software Engineer

Citizens Financial Group•Johnston, RI

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Software Engineer for its Johnston, Rhode Island location. This role involves designing, modifying, developing, and implementing technology solutions, building modern, architecturally sound components, tools, and applications to meet strategic business goals. The engineer will serve as a peer-leader, fostering innovation and accountability within an Agile framework, and employing best practices to prevent vulnerabilities. As a Calypso SME, the role provides insights for Calypso integration with financial market utilities and data sources. The position requires participation in an Agile environment, infusing quality of service characteristics into distributed systems, and contributing to design specifications. Responsibilities include participating in code and design reviews, collaborating with experience owners, experimenting with new technologies, mentoring others, and evaluating technical feasibility and risks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Engineering (any), Computer Science, or related field and eight (8) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the offered position, Software Engineering Lead, or a related position involving developing technology solutions for financial services.
Full term of experience must include: Utilizing, implementing, and supporting Calypso platforms and infrastructure.
Systems configuration, implementation and testing for OTC derivatives products across the trading lifecycle including front, middle and back office processing.
Configuring and extending with Calypso application modules for interest rates, commodities, FX, FX Options, Fixed Income and equity derivative asset classes.
Conducting General Ledger accounting, ISDA SIMM and Swift processing.
Integrating Calypso with financial market utilities including DTCC SDR, FedWire, Bloomberg, AcadiaSoft, and with market data sources, market and credit risk platforms.
Developing and supporting applications with Java, MQ, and API development.
Utilizing UNIX, Oracle SQL, and Linux.
Utilizing Java, HTML, Python, and Unix shell scripts programming languages.
Utilizing Python, shell scripts, BeyondCompare, and eclipse.

Responsibilities

Designs, modifies, develops, and implements technology solutions.
Builds modern, architecturally sound components, tools, and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals.
Serves as a peer-leader, encouraging a culture of innovation and accountability while adhering to Agile best practices.
Employs industry best practices to evaluate, correct and prevent vulnerabilities during the software development process.
As Calypso SME, provides insights for smooth Calypso integration with financial market utilities such as DTCC SDR, FedWire, Bloomberg, AcadiaSoft, and with market data sources, market and credit risk platforms.
Participates in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices, and collaborating effectively with teammates.
Infuses quality of service characteristics, including scalability, manageability, and maintainability, into distributed service-based framework to create or expand business or technical capabilities.
Contributes insight when considering design specifications, considering the goals of the consumer-facing product.
Participates in code and design reviews to ensure that solutions meet the enterprise standards and best practices.
Collaborates with experience owners to deliver robust solutions that drive user experience and achieve the project goals.
Experiments with and learns new technologies, participating in internal and external technology communities, mentoring other members of engineering community.
Evaluates technical feasibility and potential project risks.