Jersey City or Tampa Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.
The Lead Software Engineer (LSE) applies specific technical knowledge in order to assist in the design and construction of critical systems.
The LSE works as part of an project team and may interact with the business, Functional Architects, and subject matter experts on related systems.
The LSE will contribute to the design of components or individual programs, and participates fully in the construction and testing.
This involves working with the Senior Application Architect, and other technical contributors at all levels.
This position contributes expertise to project teams through all phases, including post-deployment support.
This means researching specific technologies, and applications, and contributing to the solution design, supporting development teams, testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
The LSE must possess good communication skills and be able to work well on a team.
This position requires working closely with the functional and governance functions, and more senior technical resources, reviewing technical designs and specifications, and contributing to cost estimates and schedules.
Responsibilities:
Technology Expertise – is a subject matter expert on one or more of programming languages, vendor products, applications, data structures, business lines
Platforms – works with Infrastructure partners to stand up development, testing, and production environments
Requirements Elaboration – works with the Functional Architect to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
Data Modeling – reviews and extends data models
Is aware of frameworks – that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility
System Performance – contributes to solutions that satisfy performance requirements; constructs test cases and strategies that account for performance requirements; tunes application performance issues
Security – implements solutions and executes test plans working mentoring other team members in best practice
Standards – is aware of technology standards and understands technical solutions need to be consistent with them
Documentation – develops and maintains system documentation
Is familiar with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
Requirements
1. 6+ years’ experience in application development or system analysis
2. Bachelor's degree in technical/computer discipline or related experience required
3. Subject Matter Expert on one or more of programming languages
4. Application Development experience
5. Familiar with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
6. Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
7. Banking/Capital Markets or Financial background preferred
