Principal Software Engineer - AWS Java Banking

Principal Software Engineer

The Principal Software Engineer will engage in the design and development of scalable and efficient in-house and vendor products for our Technology Finance Systems. This role will be required to work closely with cross-functional teams and across organizations to gather requirements, define and implement solutions, as well as optimize processes and provide ongoing support to the respective lines of business.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop technical financial solutions with respect to functionality, performance, scalability and reliability.
• Provide finance and technology leadership for medium to large sized projects.
• Partner with the business and developers to build out an ecosystem of vendor and in-house software.
• Work with internal business groups to acquire a deep understanding of their processes and operations.
• Work closely with developers to understand data structures, data sources and systematic processes during system development.
• Liaise with cross-functional teams to assist with best practices and to ensure end-to-end process and tooling consistency.
• Proactively and continuously look for systematic and data integrity issues across multiple systems to prioritize and fix.
• Develop, build, and maintain reports and dashboards that contain actionable metrics to monitor the performance of our operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master of Science in Computer Technology or related field.
• 10+ years of experience supporting development of data intensive software systems.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrable bias toward action.
• Experience with financial database schemas creation and maintenance.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Ability to communicate technical issues to both technical and business partners.
• Experience documenting designs from both business and systems perspectives.
• Experience with trade settlement, cash reconciliations and finance obligations.
• Experience in data analytics with excel or SQL.
• Experience in java/python

Preferred Qualifications

• Detailed technical knowledge of banking, payments, and trade finance processes.
• Systems background in high availability, transactional systems.
• Experience collaborating cross functionally with other geographies.
• Experience in AWS