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
- Delivers data collection, storage, access, and analytics data platform solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way
- 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
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Subject matter expertise in Financial Services and/or Data Engineering/Architecture
- Hands-on experience with AWS data lake and/or analytics technologies:
- AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, AWS Athena, EMR, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, Kubernetes, AWS S3, AWS EC2
- Technical knowledge of data management and governance, and database systems including AWS Aurora, Cassandra, Oracle, Cockroach and DB2
- Technical knowledge of Apache Kafka and REST API
- Working experience on Micro-Service architecture based application using Java and Spring
- Proficiency in both relational and NoSQL databases with working knowledge in data modeling tools and software (e.g., Erwin, SQL)
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated ability to build self-service, self-healing, highly scalable and secure cloud software capabilities
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- AWS Certification(s)
- Hands-on experience with Python
- Working experience in Big Data platform technologies: HDFS, Hive, Yarn, Spark, or Kafka
- Knowledge and working experience with testing, releasing, and CI/CD pipeline deployments into AWS using:
- Tools: Bitbucket, Terraform