Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Streaming Development

What You’ll Do:

You will serve as a major contributor in Architecture design and development of scalable resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities; mentor and collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization; lead through innovative strategic thinking in building data solutions.

• Actively participates and lead requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements
• Must always look for assumptions made in the models and must always validate those assumptions of the models
• Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions
• Primarily responsibility is application design and development of streaming 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 thorough code-reviews based on high engineering standards
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen Dev Ops frameworks
• 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
• Assist with departmental and new employee training
• Experience integrating modelling libraries required. Risk analytics technology implementations experience a plus
• A major influencer & strategic thinker, this person should also mentor developers and collaborate across multiple cross functional team to achieve the desired outcome.

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• [Required] Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc
• [Required]
  
  Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Active
  
  MQ, Amazon Kinesis
• [Preferred] Kafka
• [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, etc
• [Required] Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus
• [Required] Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, No
  
  SQL, Object-based, Graph
• [Required] Experience following Git workflows
• [Required] Working knowledge of Dev Ops tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc
• [Required] Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, Elastic Search, Prometheus, App Dynamics

• [Required] 7+ year of experience in building high speed, data-centric solutions
• [Required] Java 5+ years of experience

• [Preferred] OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus
• [Preferred] AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level

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

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission…