Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

THE DEPOSITORY TRUST & CLEARING CORPORATION SEEKS:

TITLE: Principal Software Engineer

JOB DUTIES: As a member of IT Solutions team, provide technical expertise and may coordinate some day-to-day work for a team. Assist in the technical design of large business systems; build applications, interfaces between applications, understand data security, retention, and recovery. Can research technologies independently and recommend appropriate solutions. Contribute to technology-specific best practices & standards; contribute to success criteria from design through deployment, including, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability; contribute expertise on significant application components, vendor products, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc., and guide less expert staff during the build and test phases. The Application Development team in IT Solutions group delivers solutions that respond to the business needs of the global capital markets with quality, efficiency, and excellence, using innovative technologies and providing secure information management.

Primary Responsibilities:

• 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
• Frameworks - 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 complete test plans working mentoring other team members in standard process
• Standards - being aware of technology standards and understands technical solutions need to be consistent with them
• Documentation - develops and maintains system documentation
• Effectively manages individual and team performance, maintaining high standards for team members
• Supports team in managing client expectations and resolving issues on time
• Coordinate and Lead teams across different geographical locations
• Technology Selection - Assist in technology selection decisions;
• Manage technology risk for the project team;
• Be familiar and utilize Unix/Linux & Amazon cloud: AWS, python, s3, snowflake;
• Platforms - Work with Infrastructure partners on Platforms to stand up development, testing, and production environments;
• Design Frameworks that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility.
• System Performance - Propose solutions that satisfy performance requirements.

• Working in a Unix/Linux environment along with server hardware, networking, and general IT infrastructure.
• Leveraging DevOps techniques and practices including Continuous integration, Continuous deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test-Driven Development to enable rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools including Jenkins, Cloud bees, and Git
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Designing and developing solutions using SQL, Python
• Working Knowledge of Data warehousing/Data lake Concepts.
• Development using XML, XSLT