SUMMIT/Fixed-Income application developer, AVP

About the role

The Data, Markets, Corporate Functions IT team is seeking a senior technical developer to join their fast-paced, technology-driven, customer-service-oriented group. This role supports Fixed Income and derivatives processing for vendor applications like SUMMIT and modifications to State Street's custom code.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership in the design of back-end and front-end functionality, operational workflow, and business solutions to complex business problems.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, QA team, and Product Owners to turn moderately complex business requirements into working and sustainable software solutions.
• Contribute to written design, development, and documentation of application functionality around vendor products and State Street's own custom code.
• Participate in Business Analysis, functional/technical spec reviews, code reviews, and review of automation/SQA tests to ensure a high-quality end product.
• Participate in change management and deployment processes and production implementation of large-scale upgrades and changes.
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications, and projects using Unix, C#, C++, Java, Python, J2EE technologies, Tomcat, web services, distributed computing, shell scripting, Autosys, and other related software engineering languages and tools.
• Provide expert-level troubleshooting on large, mission-critical system upgrades and client/regulatory-specific implementations and cross-team/cross-product functionality.
• Help conduct manual/automated unit tests and system integration tests with various downstream and upstream systems to ensure a high-quality end product.
• Actively participate and assist in improving development and test methodologies and contribute to related usage of tools such as Github, Jira, Agile methodology, and cloud development frameworks including continuous development and integration.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience, preferably in a financial services product delivery setting with a B.S. or M.S. degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in financial services industry, developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Settlement, Post-Trade processing, Accounting, Pricing, Accruals, P&L calculations.
• Knowledge of Fixed-Income products, processing, and Interest Rate Derivatives is strongly desirable.
• Experience working with products such as SUMMIT and implementation of its upgrade process is a plus.
• Authoritative experience with Unix, Shell scripting, performance tuning both from application side and DB side using Oracle Technologies is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies related to AWS, Azure, experience in migration/implementation from on-premises to public cloud is a plus.