Director, Software Engineering: Risk Analytics

2 weeks ago

Chicago, United States Options Clearing Corporation Full time

What You'll Do:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily. You’ll be working alongside experts that are building OCC’s Risk systems in the cloud, and paving the future of digital transformation in the capital markets industry by:

- Lead and mentor a geographically distributed development team, as well as collaborate and coordinate with vendors
- Manage the delivery across multiple product teams within Risk IT by establishing commitments and following through with deliveries that are full-scope, on-time, and within budget
- Collaborate with others to deliver complex projects which may involve the integration with multiple systems. Continuously thinking about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you
- Developing solutions to complex technical challenges while hands-on coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you and your team develop
- Recommending architectural changes and new technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes

Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Build and manage a team of skilled software developers

Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.- 10+ years of experience in building high performance event-driven solutions using large scale distributed frameworks.- Experience managing a team of professionals to drive their book of work, providing mentoring for growth, and delivering constructive feedback or course correction where necessary- Deep business domain knowledge in Financial Risk is preferred- Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like Flink, Spark, Kafka Streams, etc.- Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advanced design patterns and multi-threading is required.- Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.- Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, S3, ACLs, KMS, and IAM etc. Comfort with cloud agnostic technology like Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Openshift, Redis, and Kafka- Extensive experience with testing frameworks like Junit.- Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.- Experience following Git workflows is required.- Familiarity with DevOps tools. like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.- Working knowledge of monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, OTEL, LogicMonitor- ‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization. Intellectually curious and eager to learn.

Technical Skills:
- [Required] 10+ years of experience in building high speed distributed solutions- [Required] Java 8+ years of experience (including internal workings)- [Required] 8+ years of experience developing software using Object Oriented Design, advance patterns, and multi-threading
- [Required] Experience with distributed message brokers, like Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

Education and/or Experience:
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Certificates or Licenses:
- OCP Java SE 8 (minimum) Programmer Certification is a plus- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level is a plus

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at


What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

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