Job responsibilities
- Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
- Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
- Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
- Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ applied experience at code level in Java, Spark, scala or bigdata concepts. In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
- Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
- Experience delivering production changes to complex software using Java or Scala and associated frameworks (ideally Spark)
- Ability to solve data-oriented problems using multiple relevant technologies e.g. SQL, Relational DB, Spark, NoSQL etc. while optimizing for performance
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- In depth knowledge of the financial services industry, ideally with experience in Liquidity and/or Risk domains
- Real-world experience with Spark performance tuning of complex calculations on large datasets