Technical Lead

About the Role

This position requires a foundation of software development knowledge, adaptability, and a wide range of technical skills. You will develop and lead technical solutions for the SEI Wealth Platform (SWP) Data Governance Frameworks, working in an Agile team environment while understanding financial services business requirements. The role involves delivering individual code, technically leading a team of developers, and collaborating with project managers, database engineers, technical operations, and other platform personnel.

Responsibilities

• Develop and design technical solutions based on business and functional requirements for SWP Data Governance Frameworks, including Data Archive & Purge, Masking, and Data Sub-setting.
• Define and implement data governance patterns for archive, purge, masking, data sub-setting, retention, lineage, metadata, and auditability.
• Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural direction for scalable, secure, and maintainable data governance solutions.
• Partner with data architects, platform teams, security, operations, and business stakeholders to validate solution design and delivery approach.
• Build validation, reconciliation, exception handling, and monitoring controls to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and traceability.
• Support operational readiness through runbooks, support procedures, production monitoring, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Produce high-quality code to meet project deadlines and ensure functionality matches requirements.
• Analyze and resolve issues found during testing or pre-production phases, coordinating changes with project team leaders and cross-work team members.
• Provide technical leadership to project team members and respond to inquiries regarding errors or questions about programs.
• Suggest and implement process improvements for estimating, development, and testing processes.
• Ensure team designs and delivers code in alignment with published SEI and industry standards.
• Provide technical problem resolution and application support as required.

Requirements

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• A minimum of 7 years of prior work experience with an application development organization, demonstrating experience delivering systems and projects from inception through implementation.
• Work experience in developing PL/SQL, Java, Spring Boot, and shell scripting.
• Work experience in implementation of Kubernetes framework.
• Work experience in large data flows using Oracle external tables; knowledge of Oracle Data Pump.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working on multi-tiered applications designed, developed, and delivered as cloud-based solutions.

Skills

• Experience with cloud data platforms and services, especially Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, Kubernetes, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Designing and developing Cloud Native applications.
• Creating data pipelines using Snowflake/DBT/Airflow.
• Deploying and configuring well-performing Cloud Native applications.
• Relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server.
• Unstructured data and persistence models such as MongoDB, Snowflake.
• DevOps toolsets for versioning and containers, such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Maven.
• Job Orchestration tools: Control-M, Apache Airflow.
• Event/data streaming platforms, such as Kafka.
• Spring MVC and Angular development.
• Event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and API-first development.
• Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Data masking, tokenization, encryption, access controls, personally identifiable information handling, and secure data lifecycle management.

Additional Desired Experience

• Development experience in the financial services industry, including banking, wealth management, investment management, asset data, and investment processing.
• Azure, AWS, or OCI certifications.
• Test Driven Development.
• Application migrations to the cloud.
• CI/CD and DevOps concepts, tools like Ansible, Terraform, and library management tools like Artifactory.
• Strong understanding of audit, compliance, data retention, metadata management, and regulatory control requirements.
• Identity Technologies (OAuth, Azure AD, AWS IAM, OKTA, Ping).
• Angular, TypeScript, or React.

Preferred Qualities

• Exceptional communication abilities.
• Advanced system and technical analysis expertise.
• Ability to mentor developers, review code and designs, and encourage engineering best practices across the team.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical designs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
• Strong self-motivation and capability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Demonstrated capacity to build robust internal networks across the platform.
• Superior collaboration, negotiation, and conflict management skills.
• Creative thinking and aptitude for identifying optimal solutions.
• Proficiency in developing concrete results and deliverables from abstract concepts.
• Outstanding problem-solving capabilities.
• Diagnostic proficiency in analyzing technical, business, and financial challenges and solutions.
• Ability to draw insights from prior examples and eagerness to comprehend application architecture.
• Results-oriented approach with adaptability to rapid change.
• Commitment to exemplify SEI's core values: courage, integrity, collaboration, inclusion, connection, and fun.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription, wellness, EAP, FSA).
• Life and disability insurance (premiums paid for base coverage).
• 401(k) match.
• Education assistance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Up to 11 paid holidays per year.
• 21 days PTO per year (pro-rated for new hires, increasing over time).
• Paid parental leave.
• Back-up childcare arrangements.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Discounted stock purchase plan and investment options.
• Access to thriving employee networks.
• Hybrid working environment for most roles.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) to relax and recharge.