Lead Software Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, India

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? 

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. 

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:                

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension / Retirement benefits 
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being. 
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. 

The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, documenting technical requirements, crafting, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end-users in the development and improvement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.

Your Primary Responsibilities: 

• Participate in requirements gathering with Product owners, business users and subject matter experts and come up with an elegant solution with best design.
• Write clean, self-documenting code, and follow best practices on coding incorporating unit testing.
• Collaborate with the Senior Application Architects and other technical contributors at all levels during the application development and resolve application defects identified during System Integration and User Acceptance Testing Phases.
• Provide on-going maintenance support for the applications during Post-deployment support phase.
• Be a self-starter providing creative and innovative ideas or solutions continuously improving the technological offering.
• System Performance - contributes to solutions that satisfy performance requirements; constructs test cases and strategies that account for performance requirements.
• Security – implement solutions and executes test plans working with more senior technical staff to validate security requirements.
• Standards – is aware of technology standards and understand technical solutions need to be consistent with them.
• Independently follow design and code standards, contributing to continuous improvement discussions.
• Participate in code reviews, Sprint meetings and retrospectives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or Masters in Computer Science is required 
• Minimum of 6+ years of related experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Proven Core Java including Collections, multi-threading concepts with a working experience on J2EE along with Framework knowledge – Spring/Spring boot
• Web Technologies (Angular, JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, JSON, REST, SOAP)
• Frameworks – Spring, Spring boot etc.,
• ORM - JDBC, Hibernate
• Database - Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
• Servers - Tomcat
• DevOps tools like Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Fortify, VeraCode, Cobertura, Containers, etc.
• Data Formats: JSON, XML, CSV
• Familiarity with Agile Frameworks – Jira, Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Understanding of Security Types: Mutual Auth, OAuth, JWT, Basic Auth, etc.
• Understanding of CI/CD Tools and package managers: GIT, Maven, Node, Jenkins, Bitbucket
• Demonstrates strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Experienced in working with a geographically separated (onshore and offshore) team
• Experience in Python and related libraries are good to have

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, documenting technical requirements, crafting, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end-users in the development and improvement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.