Director, Architect/Lead Developer (Java 8+)

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 3 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 will do:

The Director will be responsible for the managing diversely skilled team of talented engineers working on building foundational components required by Renaissance Risk Platform, all while enriching and advancing the platform providing sound technical decisions around design, architecture and development. The candidate must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively within and outside the team and proactively engage in technical decision making to achieve desired objectives. The Director will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in agile environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

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

• Carry out assigned architecture & design task supporting development of core infrastructure services for risk platform

• Act as technical product owner in flushing out detailed business, architectural & design requirements

• Lead development of solution / solution architecture on Renaissance Risk Platform core team

• Drive various enterprise level architecture initiatives covering Risk Platform interactions at enterprise level and help flush out reference architecture with POC/Designs.

• Solicit business and technical requirements. Translate those into flexible, scalable, resilient design proposals. Review architecture proposals with tech leads in the firm as well as senior business partners.

• Collaborate with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems. Analyze, document, refine, and maintain architectures that are developed within the team.

• Create strategies and transition plans to deliver target state architectures.

• Recommend technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manage team of professionals driving their book of work

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.

• Hands-on experience documenting design proposals through clear and comprehensive diagrams, uses cases, and written documents

• Ability to syndicate and communicate clearly and concisely architecture designs and proposals to others Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles. Experience working with enterprise architecture frameworks, like TOGAF.

• Experience defining and documenting architecture strategies, designs, and requirements across all enterprise architecture domains – business, information systems (applications & data), and technology.

• Good understanding of architecture design mechanisms and steps including logical/conceptual, business and physical architectures. Ability to map between these constructs.

• ‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.

• Experience managing a team of professionals and driving their book of work.

Technical Skills:

• 8+ years hands-on experience in Java required, including good understanding of Java fundamentals such as Memory Model, Runtime Environment, Concurrency and Multithreading.

• Past/Current experience of 3+ years working on a large scale cloud native project (platform: Unix/Linux, Type of Systems: event-driven / transaction processing / high performance computing) as Technical Lead. These experiences should include developing / architecting core libraries or framework used by the platform to support fundamental services like storage, alert notifications, security, etc.

• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations using public cloud vendor preferably using cloud foundational services like AWS’s VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.

• Experience with distributed message brokers using Kafka.

• Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks such as AWS EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, S3, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc.

 Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.

• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.

• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Education and/or Experience:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Certificates or Licenses:

• N/A