Lead Software Engineer
Location: Maryland, US
Requisition Number: 81213
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Role Summary
This Lead Software Engineer will be part of the Legal, Compliance, Audit and Enterprise Risk Technology team and will deliver technological solutions that align to the business strategies while improving efficiency and regulatory compliance, reduce risk, and improve user experience. Leads the design, development, and deployment of cloud native and AI applications hosted on AWS and internal infrastructure. You will lead a team of developers and collaborate with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders to ensure the delivery of scalable and resilient applications. In this role, you will foster innovation as you build applications to provide business value solutions for our clients.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of Java and AWS experience including microservice development and familiarity working with cloud-based applications. You will also:
- Mentor and lead other developers enabling them to work independently
- Lead development efforts, provide input into architectural and design decisions, provide realistic estimates
- Design and develop solutions working with other internal groups such as architecture, devops and enterprise security to ensure alignment with enterprise technology direction and standards
- Contribute to code reviews and provide feedback
- Lead discussions to drive tactical vs. strategic decisions, outlining trade-offs
Business Knowledge
- Experience working directly with business partners
- Can articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions
Qualifications
Required:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience), with 8+ years of progressive professional development experience in more than one object-oriented language (such as Java, Python, or JavaScript), including demonstrated leadership of engineering teams
- Extensive hands-on expertise in delivering cloud-native solutions using AWS or Azure, containerized microservices
- Hands-on experience with data warehousing and modeling concepts
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT) using Informatica / SnapLogic / Apache spark
- Strong understanding of data quality, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Working knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
- Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence through setting and upholding standards for automated testing, code reviews, and continuous delivery
- Provides a clear and concise explanation of business strategy, technical concepts, designs or implementation to a non-technical audience
- Able to quickly learn new technologies and stay abreast of industry trends
- Able to support deployments and support activities outside normal business hours as needed
Preferred:
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agent-based systems in production
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, MCP servers, agent orchestration frameworks, prompt evaluation and iteration, model benchmarking, and performance testing
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Kiro, and OpenAI Codex
- Knowledge of security best practices for cloud-native applications and AI systems
- Experience in asset management or financial markets
FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role
Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home
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