Software Engineer Sr Manager

Software Engineer Sr Manager (Fixed Income Risk)
T. Rowe Price - Baltimore, MD
There is a place for you at T. Rowe Price to grow, contribute, learn, and make a difference. We are a premier asset manager focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on today and in the future. The work we do matters. We invite you to explore the opportunity to join us and grow your career with us.
The T Rowe Price Fixed Income Technology team is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager focused on Fixed Income Risk. The accomplished hire will be responsible for managing a team of engineers and analysts, managing stakeholder relationships and for delivery. They will join a team of accomplished Engineering Managers as part of the Fixed Income Technology leadership team.

The ideal candidate will be a collaborative leader, with experience of application development, data management and cloud-based architectures. They will be comfortable to empower the team members to be self-reliant in decision making, and ability to contribute equally as a team.

An essential part of this role is working closely with stakeholders in Risk Management and investment teams. Understanding their day-to-day requirements and strategic direction to strongly influence the technology roadmap focused on delivering business value.

While you will be responsible for the output of your team, you will also get direction and guidelines from senior leaders. We need a leader who aligns to this direction and seeks to understand strategy, is humble with their direct reports and stakeholders throughout.

The role requires a technologist who champions testing at all levels, demands good hygiene of code, database design and APIs. You will need to be comfortable with databases, working with SQL to diagnose data issues, and digging into logs and documentation to truly understand what the systems are doing.

Our team is part of a wider Fixed Income Technology ecosystem, building n-tier, cloud-native platform. You will be leading an agile team of smart, hardworking people whose mission is to develop new capabilities using modern cloud technologies used by our Risk Analysts, Portfolio Managers, and Quants. This is a hands-on leadership role that provides an opportunity to tackle sophisticated business, logic, data, and technical challenges. We encourage you to apply

Role summary and job responsibilities
Manages a software engineering team to deliver business-focused outcomes.
Work closely with Head of Fixed Income Risk and Senior Portfolio Managers to manage the roadmap for Risk Engineering.
Demonstrates exceptional leadership with hands-on capability to drive delivery.
Enables engineers to design and develop architecture solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
Apply people management skills to coach, mentor and develop engineers on the team
Assume ownership over the quality, TCO, maintainability and security of the solutions built by our team.
Overcome differences of opinion and drive team alignment around a specific goal or solution
Own technical debt across their development team and work to reduce it continuously.

Software Lifecycle Leadership
Able to give quality feedback on designs written by other members of my team, asking probing, insightful questions that solidify choices and surface erroneous assumptions.
Encourage ways to simplify systems.
Look for opportunities that will lead to lower maintenance and costs with meaningful and measurable impact.
Preemptively identify technical risks before they jeopardize a project.
Resolve cross-team dependencies early to ensure the successful execution of the project.
Discourage re-inventing the wheel by leveraging other T Rowe Front Office Technology or off-the-shelf solutions with the possible trade-offs in mind.

Requirements
Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND -8+ years of total relevant work experience and 2+ years of management experience
Experience in front office software development with an Asset Management, Hedge fund, or Investment Bank preferred
5+ years' experience in leading large software development projects in terms of team size, technical complexity and/or organizational complexity preferred
Experience building containerized applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar providers.
Software engineering experience with data, microservices, frameworks, and platform development
Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks such as React or similar
Coding experience and solid working knowledge of one or more of JavaScript/React, Python and Kotlin.
At ease with implementing scrum ceremonies while balancing day-to-day delivery pressures.
5+ years of business systems analysis or experience working with data and analyzing data preferred
Experience designing and delivering frameworks focused on data pipelines, data catalogs, data distribution, and/or advanced analytics
Proficient with a range of frameworks and development tools - AWS Lambda and Step Functions, SNS, SQS, S3, NoSQL databases, Git, ReactJS/Modern UI frameworks etc.

Highly desirable
Knowledge of Fixed Income or derivatives
Proven working knowledge of Risk analytics platforms (e.g MSCI, Bloomberg PORT, Barclay’s POINT)
Knowledge of Asset Management, Portfolio Management, Risk Management
FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.
Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for remote work up to three days a week.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
We strive for equity, equality, and opportunity for all associates. When we embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work, our firm is stronger, and we create greater value for our clients. Our commitment and inclusive programming aim to lift the experience for each associate and builds allies for our global associate community. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at the firm, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.
Benefits: We invest in our people through a wide range of programs and benefits, including:
Competitive pay and bonuses as well as a generous retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan with matching contributions
Flexible and remote work opportunities
Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision)
Tuition assistance
Wellness programs (fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program)
Our policies may change as our working lives evolve. Yet, our commitment to supporting our associates’ well-being and addressing the needs of our clients, business, and communities is unwavering.
T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status,