Team Lead, VP

Who we are looking for:

Leading technical contributor to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Why this role is important to us:

Charles River Development empowers investment firms worldwide with a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates the investment process across asset classes. As part of State Street Alpha, we bring together data, technology, and services to help clients make confident decisions and scale with agility. Our open ecosystem and global support model enable investment professionals—from portfolio managers to private markets specialists—to navigate complexity and drive innovation.

At Charles River, we thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and a shared commitment to shaping the future of financial technology.

Responsibilities:

Drive technical excellence by working independently to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains including modifications to core frameworks and other primary facilities critical to system operation

Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems

Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within and beyond the team’s scope of responsibility

Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve advanced software technical issues

Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business

Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews

Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product

Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks

Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product

Provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations

Actively assist team leaders in the agile software development process by adhering to and advancing the CRD scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives

Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments

Advise senior management on technical strategy

Provide mentoring to junior and senior staff

Preferred qualifications and education:

B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred.

Experience:

Experience with the Spring Boot Microservices and familiarity with the service deployment in cloud environments.

Understanding of microservice architectures and Kubernetes Knowledge and experience working with Kafka and message-based systems

A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience

Ideally, a minimum of 6 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired

Authoritative experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages

Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications

Demonstrated ability to design and develop simple software solutions to business and technical problems of high complexity

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment

A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology

About State Street:

What we do:

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investments research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow:
We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You'll have access to flexible Work Program to help match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

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