Sr Neo4j Developer/ Architect--NYC, NY(Remote/Onsite)

Role: Sr Neo4j Developer/ Architect

Duration: 6- 12 months to start with.

Location: NYC, NY preferred open to remote/ relocation candidate.

Description:

Non-Financial Risk Technology provides operational controls and surveillance capabilities to enhance the firm s resilience to threats and fraudulent behaviour. The Fraud Technology department is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining applications that help the firm identify and prevent potential fraudulent transactions. We also provide technology expertise to our fraud analysts in operations.

Role Profile:

• As an Architect/ Senior Developer, your role will be to create and deliver high-quality, resilient data solutions to our fraud business partners using Neo4j DB and to be a productive member of the development team.
• You will be expected to be actively involved in the end-to-end software development lifecycle(Requirement Analysis, Data Analysis Mapping - Modelling, Development, Testing, Deployment planning.
• You are expected to be able to do data transformation from a Relational Database to a Graph DB
• You will be expected to share ownership of our projects and contribute to the active development and maintenance of our applications.
• You will have the opportunity to be exposed to modern software engineering tools and best practices.
• You will have the opportunity to be exposed to how a large investment bank like Morgan Stanley detects and prevents fraud.
• You will work in a dynamic agile team that uses Scrum for its workflow.
• You will be expected to be involved in the full development lifecycle.
• You will be expected to collaborate with others in the wider team as well as work on your own initiative.

Skills Required:

• At least 3 years of experience in Money Movement or Trades Monitoring (AML, Fraud, Surveillance within Wealth Management financial services.
• 8+ years of overall work experience and 3+ of Architect/Senior Developer level experience in Neo4j Graph database
• Strong in Neo4j Cypher Queries, Graph Data Science & Data Ingestion
• Should be able to review and recommend the Neo4j database & infrastructure configuration for optimal database performance and to improve resilience
• Should be able to do query performance tuning by adopting optimization techniques such as Indexes, modelling etc.,
• Strong with programming in Python to perform, Batch data engineering on Apache Spark and populate Neo4j & generate downstream feeds for Data Science use cases, Real-time service integration to process business events from Kafka and persist in Neo4j, Near real-time stream processing to derive features for ML model inference.
• Strong Advanced Analytics skills to solve complex Graph problems using AI & ML
• Ability to work in all the phases of SDLC Business requirements analysis, data analysis, data architecture/modelling, development, testing & deployment
• Strong with SQL to query source databases like SQL Server & Impala.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to learn quickly and pick up new techniques and/or technologies

Skills Desired:

• Experience in Cloudera Hadoop
• Experience of working in an Agile team
• Experience of working with version control systems, GIT
• Experience with bash scripting
• Experience of working with Continuous Integration systems
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the job scheduling tools like Autosys (Preferred), Control-M etc.,
• Experience in Linux environment and can write Python/Shell scripts.