Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

theocc; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

theocc is seeking an Associate Principal to drive architecture and development of scalable, cloud-based solutions for financial risk management. You will mentor teams, lead design reviews, and collaborate with business and product owners to transform the enterprise into a data-driven organization.

You will contribute to architecture strategy, guide developers, and ensure adherence to SDLC, security, and performance standards in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Java 8+ experience is required.
• OOP design, advanced patterns (e.g., AOP) and multithreading experience is required.
• Experience with distributed message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or Kinesis.
• Cloud technologies with AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM) preferred.
• Exposure to Spark or Flink and DevOps tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Actively participates and leads requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.
• Design highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-optimized solutions.
• Lead design and development of next-gen clearing applications within an agile framework.
• Perform thorough code reviews and ensure high engineering standards.
• Write unit and integration tests and support SDLC governance.
• Mentor developers and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Java 8+

Object Oriented Design

Multithreading

DevOps patterns

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Amazon Kinesis

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

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