Lead Software Engineer

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? 

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to crafting a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits 
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

About this Opportunity 
 

Provides technical expertise and may coordinate some day to day deliverables for a team. Assists in the technical design of large business systems; builds applications, interfaces between applications, understands data security, retention, and recovery. Can research technologies independently and recommend appropriate solutions. Contributes to technology-specific best practices & standards; contributes to success criteria from design through deployment, including, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability; contributes expertise on significant application components, vendor products, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc., and guides less experienced staff during the build and test phases. 
 

Primary Responsibilities: 

 

• Technology Expertise – is a subject matter expert on one or more of programming languages, vendor products, DTCC applications, data structures, business lines
• Platforms – works with Infrastructure partners to stand up development, testing, and production environments
• Requirements Elaboration – works with the Functional Architect to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
• Data Modeling – reviews and extends data models
• Is aware of frameworks – that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility
• System Performance – contributes to solutions that satisfy performance requirements; constructs test cases and strategies that account for performance requirements; tunes application performance issues
• Security – implements solutions and executes test plans working mentoring other team members in best practice
• Standards – is aware of technology standards and understands technical solutions need to be consistent with them
• Documentation – develops and maintains system documentation
• Is familiar with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
• Effectively manages individual and team performance, maintaining high standards for team members
• Supports team in managing client expectations and resolving issues on time
• Ensures own and team’s practices support success across all geographic locations
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Sound Like You?

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
   

Talent Needed for Success: 

• 6+ yrs of active development experience/ expertise in Java/J2EE based applications demonstrated ability with Hibernate, Spring boot, Spring MVC
  • Strong frontend framework experience - Angular
  • Experience with CSS, HTML, Javascript
  • Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
  • Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems
  • Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework
  • Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, JoCoCo and Maven
  • Strong database and PL/SQL skills (Oracle, snowflake preferred)
  • Experience with containers is a plus
  • Experience with Messaging, ETL or Reporting tools is a plus.
  • Knowledge of Python a plus
  • Familiarity with Agile development methodology
  •Experience with Code coverage, junit, Mockito, PowerMock
  Experience with static code analysis tool - Sonarqube

Who We Are: 

DTCC is the heart of the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services i