Lead Software Engineer (Snowflake/AWS)

Engineers in T. Rowe Price’s Distribution & Marketing Services organization are playing a key role in helping build the future of financial services, working hand-in-hand with business partners to build client experiences that are changing the way people invest. We want technologists with a new perspective who are passionate about solving business, data and technical challenges. You will build groundbreaking, next-generation applications for n-tier cloud architectures.  

You’ll be involved, hands-on, through the entire development cycle. And you’ll redefine the way our traders, portfolio managers and analysts serve our clients. 

We are working to develop the firm's next generation data distribution platform, with the aim to seamlessly deliver real-time and on-demand investments data to a global network of distributed trading and research platforms. We are employing new paradigms such as cloud computing, lightweight microservices, and distributed and non-relational databases to deliver elastically scalable, globally distributed and highly resilient software services. 

This is a hands-on, full development lifecycle role which provides an opportunity to tackle sophisticated business, logic, data and technical challenges. As the leader of your engineering team, you will be required to think creatively and bring ground breaking technology in-house. We will expect you to be agile / to lead / to think outside the box. In return, we’ll give you challenging work that has an impact / opportunities to learn and grow / and a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to bring their point of view to the table—because that’s how we help our clients succeed 

In this role you will design, develop, modify, adapt and implement short- and long-term solutions to information technology needs through new and existing applications, systems, databases and applications infrastructure. You will review and interpret system requirements and business processes as well as code, test, debug and implement software solutions. You will also: 

• Lead projects or work streams 
• Be accountable for your work and sometimes others, provide process and standards advice in your area of specialization 
• Work independently 

• Serve as a resource for colleagues with less experience 

You will be responsible for: 

• Performing as a domain expert in one or more parts of the software lifecycle (e.g., coding, testing, deployment). Leads significant pieces of development within the development lifecycle 
• Contributing to the development of standard methodologies within your group 

• Leading code reviews and actively participates in providing feedback on others’ designs/code 
• Being accountable for technical debt in your own software 
• Leading a small project team, as required 
• Taking control of complex problems and step through them in a rational way 
• Making tactical vs. strategic trade-offs 

• Being flexible in your thinking; able to evolve a solution when additional information or ideas are presented 
• Mentoring junior members of the team 
• Identifying when junior engineers need help and providing it in a positive way that promotes confidence. 
• Actively helping team members/make suggestions to improve practices. 

Business Knowledge 

• Able to work directly with business partners 
• Decisions show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility 
• Can articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions 

Requirements:

• BS or MS Degree (or equivalent experience) in a related technical discipline and 8+ years of progressive related experience

• Proficient in at least one programming language (Python is preferred)
• Proficient in handling files CSV, XML, JSON/REST services, Parquet, Avro
• Orchestration and ETL frameworks (e.g., Apache Airflow, FiveTran, Pyspark, Autosys ).
• Good working knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS & Snowflake services
  • Snowflake: SnowPark(PySpark), Private data exchange, Data modelling, Marketplace
  • AWS: S3, Step functions, Lambda, RDS, EMR, Athena/Glue
• Good working knowledge of SQL and database concepts. Hands-on experience wit