Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Develops in Java and Groovy with administration duties using WSAdmin scripts
- Performs (DevOps)
- Works on AWS Cloud as well as container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Performs infrastructure automation with Terraform or Ansible
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Strong coding experience with Java and Groovy in an Agile environment
- Strong experience in Websphere administration using (WSAdmin scripts)
- Experience in developing, deploying, monitoring and building large distributed and parallel systems using container technology (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate)
- Advanced knowledge of AWS and experience in designing and implementing services in AWS
- Experience in Infrastructure Automation with Ansible and Terraform
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Experience with Cobol package installs, object management, and program libraries