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Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: The Options Clearing Corporation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-29
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 136000 - 223000 USD Yearly USD 136000.00 223000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
To be considered for this position, applications and resumes are accepted only through our careers site by directly applying to the posted job. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies. Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account. Any resume submitted outside of an active job posting will not be considered for employment.

What You'll Do:

Associate Principal works with business analysts, team leads and other developers. 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 solutions. The Associate Principal will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

Actively participates and leads 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 next gen clearing applications 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.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.
8+ year of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.

Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 8+ is required.

Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.

Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.

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.

Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks involving Map Reduce techniques like Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc. is a plus.

Must be able to write good quality code with 90% or above unit and integration tests coverage.

Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.

Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, No

SQL, Object-based, Graph.

Experience following…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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