Lead Software Engineer – Advice & Planning Platform (Portfolio Construction)

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident. 

We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity.  

Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you. 

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status).

About this Position

As a Lead Software Engineer for T. Rowe Price’s new Planning and Advice platform team, you will play a key role in the design, development, and delivery of the applications, services, and infrastructure that comprises our SaaS platform. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of front-end and back-end engineers to build, test/debug, and implement a suite of high-quality, successful financial planning and investment advice solutions delivered to T. Rowe Price’s clients thru our intermediary and direct business channels.

This role will specifically focus on leading the development of innovative and differentiating financial planning capabilities for T. Rowe Price’s new Planning and Advice platform to serve T. Rowe Price’s clients and internal teams. Capabilities will include client profiling, goal planning, retirement income planning, cash flow analysis, tax planning, investment planning, and integration with 3rd party systems. This is an exciting opportunity to create a state-of-the-art platform and transform T Rowe Price into a technology leader in the wealth management industry.

Role Summary and Responsibilities

• Recommends and contributes to software engineering best practices, including those that have enterprise-wide impact
• Accountable for the quality, TCO, maintainability and security of a component or application
• Capable of leading regular, ongoing development projects and teams
• Accountable for the quality, TCO, maintainability and security of key components or applications Contributes to specific elements of the GTS Technical strategy

Business Knowledge

• Makes decisions that are cognizant of the firm’s broader business strategy and future priorities
• Recommends solutions aligned with T Rowe Price’s Global Technology and business unit strategies and standards

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree (or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience) and 8+ years of progressive software engineering and leadership experience.
• Demonstrated expertise and practical experience architecting, building, and deploying software for the wealth management industry with domain knowledge around core capabilities like portfolio construction, investment management, financial planning, and/or client relationship management
• Proven ability to design, code, test, and implement flexible, extensible, scalable, reliable, and integrated SaaS platforms that can support diverse ecosystems of applications, users, delivery models (B2C, B2B2C) and business channels
• Demonstrates master hands-on capability to drive components to delivery using Java, Spring Boot, Jersey REST APIs, and modern front-end frameworks.