Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

THE DEPOSITORY TRUST & CLEARING CORPORATION SEEKS:

TITLE: Principal Software Engineer

JOB DUTIES:

• Lead the design and implementation of technical solutions with a strong focus on reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reusability, extensibility, usability, and scalability.
• Define and enforce scalability and performance benchmarks for assigned applications, ensuring compliance with performance, privacy, and security standards.
• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and cloud-native applications.
• Proactively analyze and tune application performance to identify, eliminate, and prevent performance bottlenecks.
• Manage day-to-day technical activities of the team and oversee business-critical applications, including ownership of technical designs across distributed teams and locations.
• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, unit testing, security, scalability, and maintainability guidelines.
• Diagnose and resolve data and environment-related issues, performing impact analysis, root cause analysis, and implementing corrective, adaptive, and perfective maintenance.
• Define and manage technical processes with a strong emphasis on non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate closely with business analysts and stakeholders to ensure solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Design and implement efficient, scalable data pipelines using Snowflake and Python, optimizing solutions for performance and cost efficiency.
• Work with container platforms such as OpenShift and Amazon EKS to design, deploy, and manage containerized applications.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts and solutions.
• Apply appropriate software development methodologies, including Agile practices, based on project needs.
• Integrate risk management and control processes into daily responsibilities, actively monitoring risks, mitigating issues, and escalating concerns as appropriate.

• Java/J2EE Technologies and design patterns: Java 7/8, J2EE (Servlets, JSP and JSTL, EJB, JMS, JDBC)
• Java Frameworks: Spring 5, Spring boot
• Frontend Technology: Angular, Prime NG, Bootstrap CSS
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks: myBatis and Hibernate
• User Interface languages: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSON, AJAX
• Hands-on experience with RESTful web services.
• Database: DB2, Oracle
• Java Development Tools and Application Servers: Eclipse IDE, IBM WebSphere 8.5 and above, Tomcat 8.0
• Testing Frameworks / Technology: JUnit, Performance testing
• Data Formats: JSON, XML
• Application build scripts: Git, Gradle and Maven