Director, Software Engineering - Risk Platform

What You’ll Do:

Manage a team of highly skilled software engineers in design and development of highly scalable and resilient cloud‑based Risk applications. Mentor and collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to successfully deliver business and operational functionality for internal and external users. This candidate must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and proactively engage in technical decision making to achieve these objectives.

A team player who works well with business, technical and non‑technical professionals in a fast‑paced agile environment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

You’ll be working alongside experts that are building OCC’s Risk systems in the cloud, and paving the future of digital transformation in the capital markets industry by:

• Lead and mentor a geographically distributed development team, as well as collaborate and coordinate with vendors
• Manage the delivery across multiple product teams within Risk IT by establishing commitments and following through with deliveries that are full‑scope, on‑time, and within budget
• Collaborate with others to deliver complex projects which may involve integration with multiple systems. Continuously think about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you
• Develop solutions to complex technical challenges while hands‑on coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you and your team develop
• Drive the efforts to optimize application performance and resilience through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning
• Recommend architectural changes and new technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes

• Build and manage a team of skilled software developers

• 10+ years of experience in building high performance event‑driven solutions using large‑scale distributed frameworks
• Experience managing a team of professionals to drive their book of work, providing mentoring for growth, and delivering constructive feedback or course correction where necessary
• Deep business domain knowledge in Financial Risk is preferred
• Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like Flink, Spark, Kafka Streams, etc.
• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advanced design patterns and multi‑threading is required
• Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Active
  
  MQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, S3, ACLs, KMS, and IAM. Comfort with cloud agnostic technology like Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Openshift, Redis, and Kafka
• Extensive experience with testing frameworks like Junit
• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, No
  
  SQL, Object‑based, Graph
• Experience following Git workflows is required
• Familiarity with Dev Ops tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• Working knowledge of monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, OTEL, Logic Monitor
• Get stuff done and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization. Intellectually curious and eager to learn.

• [Required] 10+ years of experience in building high speed distributed solutions
• [Required] Java 8+ years of experience (including internal workings)
• [Required] 8+ years of experience developing software using Object Oriented Design, advanced patterns, and multi-threading
  [Required] Experience with distributed message brokers, like Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• OCP Java SE 8 (minimum) Programmer Certification is a plus
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level is a plus

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and…