AWS Serverless Developer - Brokerage / Financial Services - Hybrid/Onsite

NTT DATA, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. in Charlotte, NC is seeking an AWS Serverless Developer to design, build, and operate cloud-native, serverless applications for brokerage and financial services. The role emphasizes RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and scalable data processing.

The ideal candidate has deep AWS serverless experience, strong programming skills in Scala, Rust, or Python, and a background in brokerage, clearing, retirement, or wealth-management systems. Hybrid/onsite work arrangements apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience in brokerage or financial services.
• 5+ years of brokerage/financial services domain experience is required.
• Experience with brokerage, clearing, retirement, investment, or wealth-management back-office systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and Step Functions.
• Develop high-quality, scalable software using Scala, Rust, and/or Python.
• Design, develop, and support RESTful APIs for brokerage and financial services apps.

Skills

Scala

Rust

Python

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

EventBridge

SQS

SNS

Kinesis

Step Functions

REST APIs

Tools

REST API tooling

Job description

AWS Serverless Developer - Brokerage / Financial Services - Hybrid/Onsite

We are currently seeking a AWS Serverless Developer - Brokerage / Financial Services - Hybrid/Onsite to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC), United States (US).

AWS Serverless Developer – Brokerage / Financial Services

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Serverless Developer with strong hands‑on expertise designing and developing cloud‑native, serverless, and event‑driven applications.

Brokerage, clearing, or wealth management experience is required. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of financial services technology environments, including experience supporting brokerage, clearing, retirement, investment, or wealth‑management back‑office systems.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience with AWS serverless technologies, RESTful APIs, event‑driven architectures, distributed systems, batch processing, and workflow orchestration, along with strong programming skills in Scala, Rust, and/or Python.

Day‑to‑Day Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and Step Functions.
• Develop high‑quality, scalable, maintainable software using Scala, Rust, and/or Python.
• Design, develop, consume, and support RESTful APIs for brokerage and financial services applications.
• Develop API integration solutions supporting request/response processing, authentication and authorization, error handling, exception management, performance, and resiliency.
• Design and implement event‑driven and asynchronous processing using EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and Lambda.
• Develop and support batch and file‑processing solutions, including scheduled processing, file ingestion, file generation, and S3‑based processing.
• Design and develop large‑volume data processing solutions with appropriate error handling, reconciliation, processing controls, and restart/recovery mechanisms.
• Design and implement AWS Step Functions workflows to orchestrate complex, multi‑step business and technical processes.
• Develop Lambda‑based workflows incorporating conditional processing, branching, retries, timeout management, and failure recovery.
• Integrate APIs, batch processes, event‑driven services, messaging systems, and downstream applications across complex enterprise environments.
• Monitor and troubleshoot serverless applications using AWS CloudWatch logs, metrics, and monitoring tools.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve production issues across APIs, Lambda functions, messaging services, workflows, and downstream integrations.
• Develop solutions that are scalable, highly available, resilient, secure, and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, business analysts, product owners, DevOps teams, and other technology stakeholders to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, sprint planning, backlog refinement, defect triage, deployments, and production support.
• Follow Agile/Scrum development practices and contribute to continuous improvement of development and support processes.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience , preferably within a brokerage or financial services environment.
• 5+ years of strong brokerage, clearing, wealth management, or financial services domain experience is required.
• Experience with brokerage, clearing, retirement, investment, or wealth‑management back‑office systems is highly preferred.

AWS / Serverless Development

• 5+ years of hands‑on AWS cloud development experience , with a strong focus on serverless technologies.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing and developing solutions using:
• AWS Lambda
• API Gateway
• DynamoDB