Software Engineer / Application Architect

About the position

Deliver highly complex solutions with significant system linkages, dependencies, associated risk. Lead and perform development efforts such as analysis, design, coding/creating, and testing. Position is office-based and will be required to be located in a hub city.

Responsibilities

• Participate in testing, implementation, maintenance, and escalated support of Truist's most complex solutions.
• Development includes but is not limited to customized coding, software integration, analysis, configuring solutions, or use tools pertinent to the area, project, or system to configure or generate a solution.
• Ensure adherence to company and industry standards. Provides technical consultation on extremely challenging or unusual situations.
• Write and run unit tests.
• Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
• Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices.
• Use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.
• Mentor less experienced teammates to build technical expertise.
• Act as an Agile champion. Responsible for delivering high quality working software and automating manual/reusable tasks working directly, and consulting with, the business from the beginning of the design work.
• Leverage continuous engineering practices to deliver business value regarding effectiveness of the design.
• Actively participate in refining user stories.
• Responsible for development and developing unit testing, and supporting integration and functional testing.
• Responsible for providing warranty support and providing knowledge transfer to production support.
• Develop code in accordance with the acceptance criteria established by the Product Owner.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and eight to twelve years of experience as a developer or equivalent education and related training or experience.
• Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge.
• Sound understanding of business and organizational strategies and processes.
• Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices.
• Ability to lead complex projects.
• Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to solve complex technical and business problems.
• Ability to influence others at senior levels to adopt a new perspective.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree and ten years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Banking or financial services experience.
• Deep knowledge and experience with two or more of the following: Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Professional experience building apps or services from the ground up and scaling at an enterprise level.
• Experience with Open Source tools and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of SOA methodologies and service architectures.
• Experience using web servers, application containers, caching technologies.
• Solid knowledge of relational database design and development (SQL, stored procedures, data modeling).
• Experience with messaging systems (i.e., MQ and JMS).
• Experience with build tools, such as Git, Maven, and Jenkins.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment.
• Tax-preferred savings accounts.
• 401k plan.
• No less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during the first year of employment.
• 10 sick days (also prorated).
• Paid holidays.
• Defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan may be available.