Lead Software Engineer

Thrive creates a human touch in a world driven by technology. We connect candidates and clients within the Engineering, Technologies & Administration areas for all types of organizations.

Job Description

Experience level: Mid-senior

Experience required: 8 Years

Job function: Information Technology

Total position: 1

Relocation assistance: No

Visa: Only US citizens and Green card holders

Job Responsibilities:

• Being a member of the IT Solutions team, you will provide technical expertise and may coordinate some day-to-day work for a team.
• Assist in the technical design of large business systems; build applications, interfaces between applications, understand data security, retention, and recovery. Can research technologies independently and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Contribute to technology-specific best practices & standards; contribute to success criteria from design through deployment, including reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability; contribute expertise on significant application components, vendor products, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc., and guide less experienced staff during the build and test phases.
• The Application Development team in the IT Solutions group delivers solutions that respond to the business needs of the global capital markets with quality, efficiency, and excellence, using innovative technologies and providing secure information management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platforms – works with Infrastructure partners to stand up development, testing, and production environments.
• Requirements Elaboration – works with the Functional Architect to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements.
• Data Modeling – reviews and extends data models.
• Frameworks – is aware of frameworks that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility.
• System Performance – contributes to solutions that satisfy performance requirements; constructs test cases and strategies that account for performance requirements; tunes application performance issues.
• Security – implements solutions and executes test plans while mentoring other team members in best practices.
• Standards – being aware of technology standards and understanding that technical solutions need to be consistent with them.
• Documentation – develops and maintains system documentation.
• Effectively manages individual and team performance, maintaining high standards for team members.
• Supports the team in managing client expectations and resolving issues on time.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in application development or system analysis.
• 2 years of leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical/computer field or related experience required.

Additional Information

• Strong programming knowledge in SQL, Python, and extensive AWS Services experience.
• Hands-on experience in Snowflake is an added advantage.
• Familiar with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban).