Senior Lead, Software Engineer

Job description

Tasks

• Analyze and create data models based on requirements of Northern Trust Asset Management's private equity and hedge fund businesses for a new legacy data warehouse
• Analyze source data in collaboration with upstream teams and SD South development team to create schemas
• Creation of pipelines to extract required data from upstream systems and modeling for reporting to customers and downstream systems
• Decomposition of requirements into domain, model and entity data for setup in the data warehouse
• Define the raw, transform and curate layers for data consumption
• Work with various vendor products and internal applications to refine requirements for technical solutions
• 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
• Team player with the ability to create design and code according to requirements
• Collaboration and communication (written and verbal) with project/program team and management
• Continuous search for ways to improve the stability, scalability and user experience of the application

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in finance with a technical background
• 8-12 years of experience as a technical engineer with experience in developing and maintaining high-performance, reliable and scalable Java microservices architecture applications
• Strong knowledge in design and implementation of cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure, using services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), ADF, Azure networking concepts
• Writing 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 of Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines and automation

Experience and skills

• Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring Boot, microservice architecture
• Experience in the development and deployment of cloud-native applications 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 microservices 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 problem solving, testing and analytical skills
• Design and development of data structures and data marts to support reporting
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Both attention to detail and ability to see beyond details to recognize broader implications and recommend strategic solutions
• Self-starter, 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 CI/CD pipelines for change management

Preferred/recommended skills

• Familiarity with change management processes
• Financial expertise - investment management, portfolio construction and risk management
• Experience in projects that have optimized existing processes by introducing