Calypso Principal Software Engineer

Your role as Calypso Principal Software Engineer is to work with engineering teams and architecture to produce high-quality technology solutions. You will be given the autonomy to lead, design and develop innovative solutions to some of the biggest technical issues facing the banking industry. As Principal, you will serve as a peer‑leader tasked with pursuing cutting‑edge initiatives and solutions. The breadth of Citizens operations ensures a diversity of projects as the bank pivots towards innovation and customer experience.

• Participate in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices and collaborating effectively with teammates.
• Collaborate and contribute insight to solution design ideation, ensuring the success of the product and adherence to enterprise architecture principles.
• Design, modify, develop and implement software solutions. Build modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet mission‑driven strategic business goals.
• Infuse quality‑of‑service characteristics such as scalability, manageability and maintainability into distributed service‑based frameworks to create or expand business or technical capabilities.
• Employ industry best practices to evaluate, correct and prevent vulnerabilities during the software development process.
• Serve as a peer‑leader, encouraging a culture of innovation and accountability while adhering to Agile best practices.

• Requires a minimum of 7 years of directly related experience supporting Nasdaq’s Calypso platforms and infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor software engineers.
• Deep experience with systems configuration, implementation, and testing for OTC derivatives products across the trading lifecycle, including front, middle, and back office processing.
• Deep experience configuring and extending Calypso application modules for interest rates, commodities, FX, FX options and equity derivative asset classes.
• Thorough understanding and deep experience with collateral management, general ledger accounting, ISDA SIMM and Swift processing.
• Hands‑on experience integrating Calypso with financial market utilities such as DTCC SDR, Fed Wire, Bloomberg, Acadia Soft, Tri Resolve and market data sources, market and credit risk platforms.
• Experience developing and/or supporting applications with Web Sphere, Java, Spring Boot, MQ, ETL and API development.
• Experience working on UNIX, Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL and Linux platforms.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, Dev Sec Ops  CI/CD pipeline (Bitbucket, Nexus, Jenkins, Terraform or equivalents).
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect.
• Strong communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills.

• 3+ years of experience in the financial services industry, developing solutions for consumer banking, portfolio management, trading, compliance or wealth management.
• Experience with Apache, Lucene, Memcache, RabbitMQ and No
  
  SQL.

• Required:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline.
• Preferred:
  Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.