Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Executes creative data 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
- Expert in data intensive distributed and complex application development
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of highly data intensive and distributed System
- 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
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)
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- Results-oriented Data Engineer with a proven track record in delivering innovative and cost-effective solutions based on Cockroach DB implementations in distributed RDBMS system of record applications.
- Advance level expertise in Cockroach DB for multi-region architecture, performance optimization, query plan analysis, high availability and disaster recover etc.
- Good understanding in Java, Spring Framework, and Micro-services architecture to build secure and data resilient system with strong communication skills
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Practical cloud native experience - AWS is preferred
- Hands on experience in AWS Cloud
- Payments processing domain knowledge