Senior Platform Developer at OCC (Dallas, TX)

Senior Platform Developer
Dallas, TX Job Details
Drive technical design and implementation for complex business and technical deliverables. Familiarity with multiple lines of business and technologies/systems. Able to analyze end-to-end system solutions, covering: planning, design, testing, and implementation. Requires excellent communication skills, able to work with a variety of business user and technical staff in driving IT solutions.
The Senior Platform Developer will be expected to perform any/all of the following roles and responsibilities:

• The ability to communicate Business and IT solutions independently as well as in an Agile team structure.
• Strong aptitude to learn about new business operations, terminology and strategy.
• Strong aptitude to learn about new technologies and how they apply to OCCs Business and Architecture Frameworks. (Java, DB2, UI, Event Based Distributed Systems, Real-time Systems, API Driven Architecture, Cloud based Computing, Data Warehousing, Service Oriented Architecture, Infrastructure as Code, Compliance as Code and variety of testing tools)
• Self-driven, willing to take initiative when an opportunity presents itself.
• Contributes Out of the Box thinking through Business Analysis and IT Solutions
• A strong discipline and fundamental understanding of how to follow established policy and procedures.
• The ability to take ownership and Lead in some cases, IT implementations from start to finish.
• A fundamental understanding of cloud native application architectures and delivery methodologies.
• The ability to comprehend complex infrastructure requirements and implement those requirements using infrastructure as code and compliance as code methodologies.
• Provide solutions and support for organizationally critical applications that require extensive knowledge of OCCs business processes and capabilities
• Develop and leverage automation tools to provide a quicker time to market for delivery of project solutions
  

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop platform capabilities in line with infrastructure as code methodologies in a public cloud environment.
• Provide guidance and technical consultation in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies that assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives.
• Research and evaluate alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient platform solution.
• Implement solutions to solve complex problems associated with computer equipment, capacity, limitations, and performance.
• Responsible for platform design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Work with management to provide input to creating project plans, and to provide input to update project plans throughout the development cycle.
• Act as a liaison between the Platform Automation team and Application Developers.
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills to provide timely resolution for production issues in conjunction with Production Support staff.
• Participate in code reviews and application transition to support team.
• Participate in Lessons Learned process to provide information to help OCC choose practices, methodologies, tools, technologies and programming languages.
• Provide solutions and support for organizationally critical applications that require extensive knowledge of OCCs business processes and capabilities
• Develop and leverage automation tools to provide a quicker time to market for delivery of project solutions
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  

Qualifications

• Has a thorough understanding of business or function for which applications are designed
• Requires solid knowledge of the SDLC
• Requires in-depth knowledge of multi-threaded, highly distributed and concurrent systems
• Must be well-versed on public cloud and cloud native technologies
• Must have experience with implementing infrastructure requirements as code
• Must be competent in all phases of application development and implementation
• Requires good communication, analytical, sound judgment and management skills
• Ability to work effectively with clients, management and staff
• Experience with Disaster Recovery in a public cloud environment
• Must be willing to function in a support capacity, including on-call rotation, DR support, expiration, and emergency.
  

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Java with experience in cloud native applications

• Messaging (MQSeries/Tibco/Kafka), Data Management (RDBMS, HDFS, In Memory Databases etc.), SQL.

• REST services, HTML5

• Scripting languages (Python, Perl etc.)

• Infrastructure a Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)

• Configuration Management (Ansible)

• Cloud Native Stack (Kubernetes, Redis, AWS)

Education And/or Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• At least 5 years of solid, diverse work experience in the financial industry

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in application program development or infrastructure as code setting utilizing the required skill set.

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OCC is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization and the foundation for secure markets. Founded in 1973, OCC operates under the jurisdiction of both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Derivatives Clearing Organization. Named 2016 Clearinghouse of the Year - The Americas by FOW Magazine and 2016 Clearinghouse of the Year by Global Investor/ISF Magazine, OCC now provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 20 exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures, and securities lending transactions. More information about OCC is available at http://bit.ly/2RnREWH.
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