Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. seeks a Lead Software Engineer in Rockville, MD.

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Summary Of Duties

• Oversee the development of software products and work on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Oversee and manage software processes, projects, and products to improve efficiency within the organization and product area.
• Oversee software systems and processes and recommend improvements.
• Design and develop industry-leading software solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives.
• Identify gaps between system components and design and deliver technical solutions.
• Implement methods for managing and maintaining the organization's software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds.
• Develop actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicate integration recommendations to management.
• Identify ways to overcome challenging technical situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals.
• Ensure comparison of tasks and quality of work, supporting peers to ensure the team delivers consistently.
• Provide guidance to colleagues in techniques and processes.

Hybrid work:

• Must work at worksite location 3 days per week. Up to 6 annual flexible weeks per year.

Education requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or closely related field.

Experience requirements:

• 7 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Or, alternatively:

Education requirements:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or closely related field.

Experience requirements:

• 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skills or Other Requirements:

Must have 5 years of experience with each of the following:

• Designing and implementing cloud architectures on AWS Cloud (EKS, EC2, RDS, EMR, S3, Lambda, IAM, and VPC) and building scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
• Big Data technologies: Apache Spark, EMR, Hadoop ecosystem, data lakes, and distributed processing frameworks.
• Utilizing SQL for query optimization, analytics functions, performance tuning, and managing large datasets.
• Data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions, and Glue).
• DevOps practices and tools: Jenkins for CI/CD automation and pipeline development, Jira for agile project management, sprint planning, DevOps workflow tracking, and Infrastructure as-code (Terraform and CloudFormation).
• Data governance, security controls, encryption, IAM, and compliance in cloud environments.

Travel requirements:

• 5% domestic travel required

Salary: $193,065.60 - $238,300 per year

Benefits: PTO; Paid leave (military, jury duty, bereavement, voting, care of a family member, & childbirth); Paid holidays; OT; Bonus; Health, dental, & vision; Basic life, AD&D, suppl. life, spouse/DP & dependent life, spouse/DP & dependent AD&D, STD, LTD, LTC, BTA, disability, & legal; 401(k) w/ match & add'l FINRA-funded retirement contrib.; Tuition reimb., commuter benefits, & other wellness benefits (adoption asst., backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee asst., & wellness programs).

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