Senior Software Engineer II at State Street in Burlington, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Summary: 

Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of the ETL agile Scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities:

• Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug medium to large software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains


• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn moderately complex business requirements into working and sustainable software


• Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within the team’s scope of responsibility


• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, SQL, JavaScript or other related software engineering languages


• Provide informed guidance and direction in code reviews


• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product


• Assist in improving development test methodologies and contribute to related test methodology frameworks


• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product


• Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process


• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives


• Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments


• Provide mentoring to junior staff

Qualifications:

Education:

B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred.

Experience:

• Prefer experience with modern ETL/ELT technologies: Talend, Informatica, Pentaho


• Ideally has experience with Snowflake


• Ideally has experience with Apache Spark / DataBricks


• 6 to 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting


• 4 to 7 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired


• Authoritative experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages


• Able to contribute to complex design specs in consultation with senior staff


• Able to work on medium to large projects with no supervision and on more complex tasks with minimal oversight


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills


• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment


• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired