Associate, Software Engineering

About Us

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 www.theocc.com.

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

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave 

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

What You'll Do

This role will work directly with the Production Control Team, Technical Operations Teams, and Business Users to document/coordinate the integrated Renaissance Orchestration for all OCC application pillars. This individual will document, develop, and test the Renaissance functional and technical orchestration for the project.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

- Partner with application pillars to understand and develop the functional and technical orchestration.

- Document technical standard controls, processes, and procedures are in place for all Application pillars to follow when defining Orchestration components.

- Document and test the transport components to various environments for testing to production promotion.

- Define the Infrastructure components – technical integration with Secrets Management, how file processing will work, Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, Kafka Watcher, etc.

- Ensure all automated controls (GSD – Good Software Delivery) are documented and enforced during UC4 code promotion to higher environments.

- Coordinate with Technical Operations, Infrastructure and Development teams to define and scope implementation plans for major projects from start to finish.

- Communicate and manage internal implementation requirements and expectations.

- Work with Architecture, application development, IT management team, and business stakeholders to clarify and ensure orchestration adherence to business requirements.

- Ensure orchestration compliance with all related company policies, COBIT, ITIL guidelines and other regulatory requirements associated with the project.

- Write user stories and functional documentation associated with the orchestration approach.

- Create presentations, policy and procedures required to support orchestration. 

- Creation and management of extensive confluence pages throughout the implementation lifecycle of a project/program/work-effort 

- Level 1 Support for Renaissance Orchestration for all environments, especially production. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:  

- N/A

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. - Experience with orchestration of complex workloads end-to-end across multi clouds 

- Software Integration background with Real Time messaging between systems

- Self-motivated team player with a positive attitude, strong analytic and problem-solving skills

- Effective communication skills (both verbal and written), and a commitment to accuracy, reliability, and Interpersonal Relationship building skills

- Self-managed high energy person with the ability to learn new concepts quickly and apply new tools, processes, and standards.

- Highly organized with attention-to-detail and a history of successful delivery according to timelines

- Proven experience leading change in an Agile/Scrum environment in a similar role

- Powerful desire to continuously learn and understand new technologies from a variety of sources (existing internal documentation, self-study/research etc.)

- Ability to translate ambiguous ideas, technical data, and complex information into straightforward, effective, and easily digestible documents or descriptions.

Technical Skills:

- Proficiency in MS Office Suite, Confluence, JIRA

- Experiencing in application job scheduling tools specifically Automic (UC4)

- General knowledge of programming languages, databases, testing tools, CI/CD tools, networking technologies, security controls as applied to software technologies

Education and/or Experience:

- Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in Information Technology, MIS, Computer Science or Business is a plus.

- Experience in working on projects at the corporate level a plus.

- 2+ years of software implementation and integration, product support, or project coordination experience

Certificates or Licenses: 

- AWS or equivalent to demonstrate technical aptitude a plus but not required