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What You'll Do:
Associate Principal works with business analysts, team leads and other developers. A contributor in development of scalable resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities; collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization. The Associate Principal will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
Actively participates and contributes to requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.
• Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions.
• Primary responsibility is application design and development of next gen clearing applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.
• Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.
• Participates in code-reviews based on high engineering standards
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen test frameworks.
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
• Assist with departmental and new employee training.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
NA
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.
• 7+ years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ 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.
• Must be able to write good quality code with 80% or above unit and integration tests coverage. 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.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is a plus.
• 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:
• Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ is required.
• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
• Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management.
• Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.
• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
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
$136,000.00 - $222,800.00Incentive Range
8% to 15%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
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