Lead Java Specialty Software Engineer

Lead Java Specialty Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Java Specialty Engineer who will be part of the team developing the latest pricing, risk and PNL platforms within the Spread Technology team in Fixed Income.

In this role, you will:

1. Lead complex initiatives on selected domains
2. Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
3. Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
4. Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
5. Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
6. Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
7. Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff
8. Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk
9. Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost
10. Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies
11. Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature
12. Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
13. Mentor less experienced software engineers
14. Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
15. Lead team to achieve objectives
16. Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of software development experience preferably using Java
• 4+ years of software development lifecycle and using Jira/Confluence
• 2+ years experience Github, Jenkins etc

Desired Qualification:

• Knowledge of Capital Markets Fixed Income domain preferred
• Basic understanding of Bond Pricing, Bond Risk, Bond PnL, and Position Management
• Basic understanding of Trade lifecycle, Position Management, and End of Day Marking
• Familiarity with event driven messaging frameworks using Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with in-memory caches such as Redis/Apache Ignite
• Familiarity with NoSQL Databases Such as MongoDB

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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