Sr Developer

About the role

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group headquartered in Tokyo with a 400‑year history, offering banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance across more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company and one of Japan’s three largest banking groups, trading on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and NYSE (SMFG) exchanges. In the Americas SMBC Group operates in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru through entities such as Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd. SMBC Nikko Securities America is modernizing its technology to support Investment Banking and seeks a Vice President‑level Application Developer to join the IT team, design, develop, and support strategic business applications and platform services, working closely with bankers, stakeholders, and technology teams to deliver scalable, reliable, innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, support, and maintain strategic applications supporting the Investment Banking business.
• Partner closely with bankers, business stakeholders, project managers, and technology teams to deliver scalable and reliable technology solutions.
• Design and develop distributed applications, APIs, automation frameworks, and data integration solutions.
• Lead engineering initiatives to improve system reliability, automation, scalability, and operational excellence across strategic Investment Banking technology platforms.
• Drive application modernization through cloud technologies, CI/CD practices, and software engineering best practices.
• Improve system observability, monitoring, performance, and operational support capabilities.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technology standards and engineering best practices.
• Perform root cause analysis for production issues and implement long‑term improvements to system stability and resilience.
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership across development initiatives.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development.
• Strong hands‑on development experience in Python and SQL.
• Experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems and enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design principles, and application reliability.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and software delivery processes.
• Experience supporting production environments and mission‑critical business applications.
• Experience with cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and competing priorities