Software Engineer

Job Summary

At a leading financial services firm committed to helping clients achieve long-term financial goals through disciplined investing, thoughtful innovation, and a culture of integrity, collaboration, and excellence, associates are empowered to do meaningful work, grow their careers, and contribute to an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives drive better outcomes.

About the Role

The AI Engineering and Application Development business unit builds and enables modern technology solutions that help scale the firm's innovation agenda. This team delivers secure, reliable, and forward-looking engineering capabilities that support the development, deployment, and operation of business-critical applications and AI-powered solutions across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Guides decisions about Cloud Infrastructure & Software upgrades, refreshes, enhancements and replacement.
• Leads or supports incident response and troubleshooting efforts in complex implementations and across multiple domains.
• Participates in continuous improvement efforts spanning multiple functional domains and helps shape new standards.
• Identifies non-obvious relationships and anomalies often overlooked by others.
• Detects and resolves issues before they impact the broader team or platform.
• Draws logical, objective conclusions from data and validates root causes and contributing factors.
• Mentors other team members.
• Provides feedback and coaching to others with management responsibility.
• Participates in interviews for new team members.
• Leads teams on large, technically complex initiatives.
• Drives alignment across teams and stakeholders, even when perspectives differ.
• Holds associates and teams accountable for adhering to engineering practices and policies.

Requirements

• Strong experience of the software development lifecycle process and tools and services that support the enterprise.
• Strong experience of one or more cloud infrastructure components, including deployment and maintenance.
• Good knowledge of core infrastructure capabilities, including operating systems, networking, identity, and access management.
• Strong knowledge of tooling used to test and manage software and infrastructure components.
• Experience engineering and supporting cloud-based infrastructure and application platforms, preferably in AWS, including products and services related to the Software Development Lifecycle and compute, storage, networking, security, and observability.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern software delivery tooling such as GitLab, Artifactory and/or similar platforms.
• Familiarity supporting containerized and distributed application environments using Kubernetes, Docker, or related technologies.
• Familiarity with AI/ML platform infrastructure, data pipelines, or engineering patterns that support model development, deployment, and monitoring in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of reliability, resiliency, and operational practices, including monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Experience partnering across engineering, security, architecture, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers in complex delivery environments.
• Working knowledge of secure engineering practices and controls, including identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and policy compliance.
• Ability to effectively and articulately communicate highly technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Stays ahead of best-of-breed technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Skills

• Specialized knowledge and expertise in your own job discipline and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge.
• Uses sophisticated analytical thought to identify creative solutions.
• Leads disciplinary or multi-functional programs of notable risk.
• Accounts for work of self and others; sets standards around which others will operate.
• Works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations.
• Acts as advisor to management and key external partners on broad-ranging projects.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans.
• 401k Retirement Fund.

About the Client

This client is a leading financial services and asset management firm dedicated to helping investors achieve long-term financial goals, serving clients across the U.S. and globally. The organization employs thousands of technology and finance professionals — including senior cloud infrastructure engineers, software engineers, data analysts, and business systems analysts — who collaborate across agile, enterprise-scale teams. With a strong emphasis on AWS cloud infrastructure, data analytics, and disciplined engineering governance, the firm ranks among the most respected names in active investment management and consistently invests in modern, secure technology platforms to support its global operations.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.