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Orient, Illinois, United States
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What You'll Do:
Manage a team of highly skilled software engineers in design and development of the new generation highly scalable resilient cloud-based Clearing applications. Mentor and collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to successfully deliver business and operational functionality for internal and external users. This candidate must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and proactively engage in technical decision making to achieve these objectives. A team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in an agile environment.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
You’ll be working alongside experts that are building OCC’s next generation Clearing system, and paving the future of digital transformation in the capital markets industry by
Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems
Continuously thinking about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you
Manage distributed development team, collaborate, and coordinate with vendors
Developing solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you develop
Lead the efforts to optimize application performance and resilience through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning
Recommending architectural changes and new technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Build and manage a team of skilled software developers
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.
8-10 years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 8+ is required.
Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.
Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.
Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
Experience following Git workflows is required.
Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is desirable.
Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.
‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.
Intellectually curious and eager to learn.
Technical Skills:
[Required] 8+ years of experience in team building, management, and mentoring
[Required] 8+ years of experience in building high speed distributed solutions
[Required] Java 8+ years of experience
[Required] 8+ years of experience developing software using Object Oriented Design, advance patterns, and multi-threading
[Required] Experience with distributed message brokers, like Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
[Preferred] Working knowledge of DevOps tools, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm.
Education and/or Experience:
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
Certificates or Licenses:
OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level is a plus
About Us
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.
Benefits
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.
Compensation
Salary Range
$172,700.00 - $286,800.00Incentive Range
23% to 30%This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer
