Senior Lead, Software Engineer

Job description: Senior Lead, Software Engineer

Tasks

• Analyze and build the data model based on the requirements of Northern Trust Asset Management's private equity and hedge fund businesses for the upcoming legacy data warehouse.
• Analyze source data in collaboration with upstream teams and the 50 South development team to create a schema.
• Build pipelines to extract required data from upstream systems and model it for reporting to customers and downstream systems.
• Decompose requirements into domain, model and entity data for setup in the data warehouse.
• Define the raw, transform and curate layers for data consumption.
• Coordinate with various vendor products and internal applications to refine requirements and support solutions for technical teams.
• Be the first point of contact for clarifying business gaps in the technical team on site.
• Participate in data modeling discussions and ensure that the data warehouse model meets business requirements.
• Be a team player with the ability to own the design and code according to the given requirements.
• Communicate the status (verbally and in writing) to the project team and management.
• Continuously look for ways to improve the stability, scalability and user experience of the application.

Requirements

Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in finance with a technical background.
• 8-12 years of experience as a technical engineer who can develop and maintain high performance, reliable and scalable live microservice architectures.
• Strong skills in designing and implementing cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure, utilizing services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), ADF and Azure networking concepts.
• Write clean, reusable and well-documented code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers, QA engineers and product managers.
• Ensuring that applications meet high performance, scalability and security standards.
• Use Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines and automation.

Skills

• Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring Boot, microservice architecture.
• Experience in cloud-native development and deployment on Microsoft Azure.
• Practical experience with Azure services such as Azure App Services, Functions, Kubernetes (AKS), Azure DevOps, Blob Storage and Service Bus.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, SOAP and microservice architecture.
• Solid understanding of database technologies (e.g. Azure SQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, algorithms and data structures.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Design, development and use of data structures and data marts to support reporting.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Both attention to detail and ability to see beyond the details to recognize broader implications and recommend strategic solutions.
• Self-starters; positive and adaptable in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills with technical and business partners.
• Strong understanding of building CICD pipelines for change management.

Preferred/recommended skills

• Familiarity with the change management process.
• Knowledge of finance - investment management, portfolio construction and risk management