Lead Software Engineer- Java &AWS

e, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

• Becomes a technical mentor in the team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Experience in software engineering, including hands-on expertise in ETL/Data pipeline and data lake platforms like Teradata and Snowflake

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Proficiency in AWS services especially in Aurora Postgres RDS

• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in re-engineering and migrating on-premises data solutions to and for the cloud
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for Cloud based data infrastructure
• Experience in building on emerging cloud serverless managed services, to minimize/eliminate physical/virtual server footprint
• Advanced in Java plus Python (nice to have)