Associate, Software Engineering

What You'll Do

The Associate Production, DevOps, and Python development, executes the development of resilient solutions; work with developers, architects and product owners to execute the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization; follow innovative strategic thinking in building data solutions. This software must achieve a blend of reliability, data-rich presentation, performance, user experience, and the capacity to support the busiest trading days in the world economy with rock-solid reliability. The candidate must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and proactively engage in technical decision making to achieve these objectives. This individual will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in an agile environment

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

• Actively executes requirement analysis and reviews
• Follows design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions
• Application design and development of application for business requirements in an Agile environment
• Analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks
• Executes application analysis and recommends quality improvements
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management
• Work with tools to make it easier for teams to deploy their applications to environments outside of development
• Develop programs to automate security checks and controls into the build and deployment pipelines
• Develop Analysis Tools for debugging and supporting applications in test and production environments
• Work with development, platform automation and security teams to build automation, establish standards and best practices that need to be solved enterprise wide
• Peer program with development teams to show them CI/CD pipelines and help them to implement standard and best practices
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks
• Troubleshoot environments as problems arise, test fixes, and perform follow-ups to ensure problems have been adequately resolved
• Other job-related duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

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.

• [Preferred] Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit
• [Preferred] Experience working with various types of databases like Relational
• [Preferred] Experience following Git workflows
• [Preferred] Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc
• [Preferred] Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Technical Skills:

• [Required] 1+ year of experience in working high speed, data-centric solutions
• [Required] Java and/or Python 1+ years of experience
• [Required] 1+ SQL experience
• [Preferred] 1+ years hands on experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, tools, and technologies such as GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Compose, K8s, Harness
• [Preferred] Working knowledge of Kafka
• [Preferred] Working knowledge of Terraform (Enterprise preferred)
• [Preferred] Working knowledge of Kubernetes & Helm
• [Preferred] Working knowledge of Containers
• [Preferred] Experience working with Cloud ecosystems (AWS preferred)

Education and/or Experience:

• [Preferred] BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Preferred] OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification 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 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