Software Engineer

SUMMARY: Software Engineers design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software to meet business and customer needs. Depending on the role, Software Engineers work on development initiatives that include:

• Developing features and capabilities for end users, either external customers or internal employees.
• Developing platforms such as data engineering, developer tooling, or machine learning.
• Configuring and customizing vendor-provided packaged software.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties and special projects may be assigned.

• Write high-quality code that satisfies customer needs and strives for simplicity, clarity, and testability.
• Promote a collaborative team environment and work closely with colleagues to achieve business objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders (e.g. business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, and end users) to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
• Investigate and propose solutions to development and design problems.
• Participate in scope of work estimation and forecasting.
• Adhere to architecture, design, implementation, and security standards and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews or use collaborative programming techniques to promote high quality business outcomes.
• Conduct analysis to determine integration needs, and design and plan integrations.
• Implement unit and integration tests and conduct functional and performance testing where appropriate.
• Develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery.
• Improve performance of existing software by diagnosing and resolving critical issues.
• Prepare technical documentation, including software design evaluation plans, test results, and technical manuals.
• Adhere to established development practices and processes.
• Analyze and create new configuration for packaged software.
• Review new releases of packaged software and identify new features that can be enabled for the business.
• Gathers and provides input to define functional requirements and designs.
• Design and build technical architecture.
• Coach and mentor junior software engineers
• Serves as engineering resource to work with Business Lines to understand their needs and convert them into engineering design.
• Adheres to and complies with applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.).
• Adheres to Bank policies and procedures and completes required training.
• Identifies and reports suspicious activity.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent field required

EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Background in Financial Services preferred
• Leadership and team management experience and ability to direct team workflows
• Experience with development platforms (eg AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Pega, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Experience with relational databases (eg MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with NO SQL Databases (eg, Mongo DB, Relational Database Services)
• Experience developing for multiple operating systems
• Experience in building APIs for both internal and external products
• Experience integrating vendor software packages like Nautilus, Fiserv Signature Core Banking, ServiceNow, Sailpoint and others

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong proficiency languages such as C#, C++, Java, Python, Javascript, TypeScript, jQuery, Angular.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles.
• Strong ability to understand context for code, the codebase, and its relation to business objectives.
• Ability to work both independently and on a team.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD principles and practices.