Sr. Engineering Lead II, VP

Summary:   

Act as engineer responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Alpha/Charles River Development modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River. 

Responsibilities: 

• Analyze, design, develop, test, and debug large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains including modifications to core frameworks and other primary facilities critical to system operation 

• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems 

• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve software technical issues 

• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business 

• Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews 

• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product 

• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks 

• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product 

• Provide troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations 

• Engage in the agile software development process by adhering to and advancing the CRD scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives 

• Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments 

• Junior engineers should expect critique and guidance on designs.  Mid-level engineers will demonstrate more independence of design and development.  Senior-level engineers are expected to drive technical excellence, coach and inform application level architectures and roadmaps. 

Qualifications: 

Recommended Education: 

• B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred. 

Recommended Experience: 

• Experience developing event driven architectures   

• Experience in Kafka strongly desired  

• Experience developing cloud native services on one or more of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)  

• Experience in cloud native development using Java and Spring 

• Experience in Angular or React 

• Experience in Snowflake 

• Experience in SQL Server 

• Knowledge of Kubernetes  

• Experience in developing observable, operable cloud native software that horizontally scales 

• Experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management  

• Experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages 

• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications 

• Demonstrated ability to design and develop software solutions to business and technical problems of high complexity 

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills 

• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment 

• Agile development methodology 

Travel: 

May be required on a limited basis.