Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Streaming Development

What You'll Do:

This role supports and works collaboratively with business analysts, team leads and development team. A contributor in developing scalable and resilient hybrid and Cloud-based data solutions supporting critical financial market clearing and risk activities; collaborate with other developers, architects and product owners to support enterprise transformation into a data-driven organization. The Specialist, Application Developer 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.

• Support the application development of big data application 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 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

• Experience with resolving security vulnerabilities

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

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.

• [Required] 5+ year of experience in building high speed, data-centric solutions

• [Required] 5+ years of experience in Java

• [Required] Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc

• [Required] Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

• [Required] 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

• [Required] Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google

• [Required] Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus

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

• [Required] Experience following Git workflows

• [Required] Working knowledge of DevOps tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc

• [Required] Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Technical Skills:

• [Required] Java-based software development experience, including deep understanding of Java fundamentals like Memory Model, Data structures, Concurrency and Multithreading

• [Required] Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles

• [Required] Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automated test cases, and working with test frameworks

• [Preferred] Deep understanding to troubleshoot performance and multi-threaded issues

• [Preferred] Experience with performance optimization and profiling

• [Required] Experience working with two or more of the following: Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms

• [Required] Hands-on experience with Java version 8 onwards, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices, REST API

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required

• [Preferred] MS in Computer Science

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Preferred] OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification

• [Preferred] AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level

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