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Director of Java Kafka Software Engineering

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: Request Technology, LLC
Full Time position
Listed on 2025-11-13
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Data Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 200000 - 250000 USD Yearly USD 200000.00 250000.00 YEAR
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Director of Java Kafka Software Engineering

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*** We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role***

*** Position is bonus eligible***

Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking a Director of Software Development with strong Java and Kafka experience. Candidate will be responsible for leading a team of skilled software engineers designing and delivering scalable and resilient hybrid and Cloud-based applications and data solutions supporting critical financial market clearing and risk activities; helping to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization;

lead through innovative strategic thinking in building data solutions.

Responsibilities
  • Manage, lead, and mentor software development team
  • Serve as technical product owner flushing out detailed business, architectural, and design requirements
  • Develop solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting and documenting the systems you and your team develop
  • Recommend architectural changes and new technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes
  • Lead the efforts to optimize application performance and resilience through analysis, code refactoring, and systems tuning
  • Collaborate with others to deliver complex projects involving the integration with multiple systems
  • Work closely with internal and external business and technology partners.
  • Build and manage a team of skilled software engineers
Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience leading software development teams
  • Experience with Java
  • Experience with distributed message brokers like Flink, Spark, Kafka Streams, etc.
  • Experience with Agile development processes for enterprise software solutions
  • Experience with software testing methodologies and automated testing frameworks
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Ability to manage project teams with different timelines and focus
  • Knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and change management
  • Strong communication skills with ability to communicate and interact with engineers and business stakeholders
  • Team player, self-driven, motivated, and able to work under pressure
Technical Skills
  • 8-10 years of experience in building high performance, large scale data solutions
  • Experience managing a team of professionals to drive their work, providing mentoring for growth, and delivering constructive feedback or course correction where necessary
  • 8+ years of solutions design and architecture experience
  • Hands-on development experience with multiple programming languages such as Python and Java
  • Experience with Big Data processing technologies and frameworks such as Presto, Hadoop, Map Reduce, and Spark
  • Hands-on experiences designing and implementing RESTful APIs
  • Knowledge and understanding of Dev Ops tools and technologies such as Terraform, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Harness, Nex Artifactory, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Knowledge of SQL, data warehousing design concepts, various data management systems (structured and semi structured) and integrating with various database technologies (Relational, No

    SQL)
  • Experience working with Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
  • Experience with stream processing technologies and frameworks such as Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink
  • Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, Elasticsearch, Signal

    FX, and App Dynamics
  • Good understanding of data integrations patterns, technologies, and tools
Education / Certification
  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Master's degree preferred
  • OCP Java Programmer Certification (preferred)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)
Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

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