Lead Software Engineer (VP)

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture for Athena, Databricks, and AWS-based valuation-control platforms.
• Develop pricing, risk, IPV, valuation-adjustment, and fair-value reporting tools within Athena.
• Design, build, and optimize Databricks ETL and analytics pipelines for pricing, market, and P&L data.
• Architect and manage AWS cloud-native solutions, including infrastructure, security, automation, and modernization.
• Establish engineering standards, code-quality practices, CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, and production monitoring.
• Deliver automation and controls for independent price verification, valuation uncertainty detection, reconciliations, and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with valuation control, risk, finance, quantitative, and business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, oversee production support, and ensure scalable, auditable, and resilient systems.
• Promote enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and automation practices with appropriate secure-coding, peer-review, and validation standards.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Extensive Python engineering experience, including platform and financial application engineering for derivatives pricing, risk management, trade booking, or quantitative analytics.
• Strong Databricks and Apache Spark experience, including PySpark, Delta Lake, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on AWS experience with S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, and container or orchestration services, plus cloud-security and cost-management knowledge.
• Understanding of financial products, valuation and pricing concepts, and market data.
• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering technology in a controlled, regulated environment.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, and data-quality engineering skills.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to bridge business and technical domains.
• Preferred qualifications include knowledge of IPV, prudent valuation, XVA, or fair-value reserves; reactive or streaming computation and real-time dashboards; Terraform or CloudFormation; modern AWS DevOps practices; and relevant AWS certification.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location; eligible roles may also receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation.
• Benefits may include comprehensive health care, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
• Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and disabilities.