Specialty Software Engineer

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Specialty Software Engineer in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• High emphasis that this person is a hands on programmer
• 5+ years of Java programming
• 2+ years of SQL programming

Desired Skills & Experience

• Autosys
• IBM Platform Symphony
• Agile
• Banking industry
• Good team player
• Good communicator

What You Will Be Doing

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Specialty Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term Specialty Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.
• This position is for a Java software developer concentrating on the risk simulation aspects in the market risk calculation described in the software stack below.
• Perform in the high level technical and analytics role as an individual contributor developing software for the various risk calculation processes.
• Work directly with business analysts, Market Risk Officers, and Quantitative Risk Analytics group (Quants) to understand requirements.
• Read and understand business specifications and create functional specifications from them.
• Create thorough designs - taking care to assure that designs integrate well into existing architecture.
• Write high quality code in the Java language using object-oriented principals and design patterns as appropriate.
• Create/modify SQL Server database objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc) as needed.
• Perform high quality thorough unit testing and documentation of development activities.
• Work on complex problems where analysis of situations and/or data requires a solid grasp of both computing and business/risk domains.
• Work with large data sets requiring extreme attention to computational efficiency, parallelism, and scalability.
• Assure quality, maintainability, and extensibility for supported systems and risk applications.
• Work as a Team Engineer in an Agile team. Need to attend daily scrum meetings and sprint planning sessions.