Software Engineer Lead, Capital Markets

About the position

Deliver highly complex solutions with significant system linkages and dependencies and associated risk. Focus on applications specific to the Capital Markets technology platform. Lead and perform development efforts such as analysis, design, coding/creating, and testing. Participate in testing, implementation, maintenance, and escalated support of Truist's most complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Development includes but not limited to analysis, technical design, customized coding, software integration, configuring solutions, or using applications supporting Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Loan Trading and Syndication, Investment Banking, Credit, Risk, and integration tools such as MuleSoft, TIBCO or other event-driven message transmission capabilities or integration products to customize or generate a product.
• Lead / conduct robust unit testing associated to user stories completed during the current sprint. Where possible, drive to achieve automated unit testing leveraging DevSecOps practices and tools implemented in the software development pipeline.
• As a lead, ensures adherence to company and industry standards.
• Provide technical consultation on extremely challenging or unusual situations.
• Provide leadership / direction in the design, development and maintenance of solutions as well as play an active role as part of a platform team through the Product Development lifecycle.
• Works within feature team framework providing oversight to scrum teams and engineering functions.
• Work directly and consult with business stakeholders from initiation of the design process, responsible for delivering innovative, high quality working software to satisfy the business objective.
• Leverage continuous engineering practices to effectively deliver business value.
• Mentor less experienced teammates to build technical expertise.
• May have people management responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems and seven years of experience as a developer or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Ability to solve problems in straightforward situations by analyzing possible solutions using experience, judgment, innovative thinking and precedents.
• Experience participating in Capital Markets initiatives with a focus on IT Delivery.
• Ability to communicate complex information in a logical and straightforward manner.
• Demonstrable experience working in an Agile delivery methodology.
• Capital Markets domain expertise – specific knowledge of the sales and trading lifecycle, relevant products being supported and a general understanding of the regulatory requirements.
• Ability to lead complex projects, ability to break the work down into manageable and easily understood scope.
• 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 or MBA, CFA and ten years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Banking or financial services experience.
• SaFE Agile certification or commensurate designation.
• Knowledge of one or more of the following: Data Analysis/Mining (R, Python), Business Intelligence (Qlikview, Tableau, MSPowerBI), Distributed (e.g. J2EE, .Net, Middleware, MuleSoft/TIBCO, WebServices, javascript), Database platforms such as SQL Server, Oracle, SnowFlake, PostgreSQL, Hadoop.
• Experience with automated development and operations (DevSecOps) leveraging an automated Software Development Lifecycle (Dev, Build, Test, Release) leveraging public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle).
• Experience supporting Capital Markets Regulatory Environment – (SEC, FINRA, CFTC, NFA, FED).
• Experience supporting / integrating quant libraries.
• Experience with machine learning / AI principles.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment.
• Tax-preferred savings accounts.
• 401k plan.
• No less than 10 days of vacation during the first year of employment.
• 10 sick days.
• Paid holidays.
• Defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan may be available.