Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

theocc; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Theocc is seeking an Associate Principal to drive architecture and development of scalable, hybrid cloud-based solutions for financial risk management. You will mentor teams, collaborate with analysts, team leads, and product owners to transform the enterprise into a data-driven organization.

You will lead requirement analysis, design highly performing systems, and ensure quality through robust testing and SDLC discipline.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Experience with Java 8+ and OO design; multi-threading.
• Experience with distributed messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kinesis).
• Cloud technologies and migrations; AWS core services (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, KMS).
• Experience with Spark, Kafka Streams, Flink or similar for high-speed processing.
• Strong unit/integration testing with modern frameworks (JUnit, Citrus).
• Familiar with Git workflows; DevOps tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins).
• Experience with relational, NoSQL, graph databases and various data stores.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design and development of scalable, resilient cloud-based solutions.
• Mentor developers and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Perform requirements analysis and drive SDLC with quality standards.
• Write tests and ensure code reviews meet high engineering standards.
• Participate in risk analysis and implement quality improvements.
• Collaborate with business owners and product managers to shape strategy.

Skills

Java 8+

OO design

Multi-threading

Distributed messaging

Git workflows

DevOps concepts

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Cloud/AWS

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Kinesis

AWS

S3

EC2

RDS

VPC

IAM

KMS

Job description

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 DevOps 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 MapReduce 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, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
• Experience following Git workflows is required.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is desirable.
• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.
• 'Get stuff done' and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.
• Intellectually curious and eager to learn.

Technical Skills:

• 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 high speed distributed computing frameworks invol