Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

What You'll Do:

Associate Principal works with business analysts, team leads and other developers. A major contributor in architecture design and development of scalable resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities; mentor and collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization; lead through innovative strategic thinking in building solutions. The Associate Principal will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Actively participates and leads requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.

• Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions.

• Primary responsibility is application design and development of next gen clearing applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.

• Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.

• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.

• Performs thorough code-reviews based on high engineering standards

• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen test frameworks.

• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.

• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.

• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.

• Assist with departmental and new employee training.

• A major influencer & strategic thinker, this person should also mentor developers and collaborate across multiple cross functional team to achieve the desired outcome.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

NA

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• 8+ years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.

• Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ is required.

• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.

• Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.

• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.

• Must be able to write good quality code with 80% or above unit and integration tests coverage. Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.

• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.

• Experience following Git workflows is required.

• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is a plus.

• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.

• ‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.

• Intellectually curious and eager to learn.

Technical Skills:

• Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ is required.

• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.

• Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management