Senior Manager - Java

Our client operates in the Financial sector, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 160 countries, providing employment to more than 200k people all over the world. They fall in the Top 15 largest Banks in the United States. Its core business is to provide various Banking and Financial services to its clients. It is known to have one of the biggest balance sheet banks in the world (among others) aiding it to offer 360-degree financial services to its clients.

Responsibilities:

• Lead team(s) of passionate engineers supporting multiple systems who take pride in customer satisfaction and ownership 
• Set up and maintain processes that empower to move the team quickly 
• Be hands-on in technical architecture and reviews, are a strong believer in servant leadership and don’t shy away from rolling up the sleeves. 
• Independently own and drive multiple critical work streams, this includes vision/direction setting, overseeing the overall planning and execution toward clear objectives with measurable key results. 
• Establish and drive adoption of design and coding best practices within your team 
• Liaise with senior stakeholders across the Risk, Finance and Front Office business organizations, and external Market Regulators to assemble execute projects across Capital spectrum. 
• Mentor and guide professional development of analysts & engineers on your team, and continuously improve software engineering practices 
• Strong written and oral presentation skills and presence 
• Collaborate with and across team to design, build and deliver high quality software meeting and exceeding client needs 

Requirements:

• You are a hands-on engineering manager with 7+ years of industry experience and 5+ years of engineering management. 
• 4+ years of managing individual contributors across all levels 
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field or related experience 
• Graduate in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) or Finance disciplines. 
• Broad experience in relational and document databases, data structures, caching and reporting 
• Develop enterprise-grade applications using Java 8/JEE (and higher), No SQL, Spring, among other tools 
• A track record of managing and mentoring junior and senior engineers, preferably located across multiple time zones 
• Experience attracting and hiring top talents, including engineering leaders and software engineers 
• Proficient at working with large and complex code bases 
• Ability to be metrics / data driven and have a bias for action and result delivery 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial industry specifically in Credit Risk & Market Risk Capital domains. 
• Technologies and tools: Java, Web / Restful service development, Angular, JSON, Python, SQL, Build tools 
• Develop enterprise-grade applications using Java 8/JEE (and higher), No SQL, Spring, among other tools 
• Experience in event-driven design of Microservices and 12-factor app development standards 
• Experience building modern enterprise applications and deploying to public or private clouds including AWS 
• Experience in Distributed cache systems like Apache Ignite; App developer w/ experience in writing distributable jobs in Spark 
• Experience in Spring Framework and Cloud Computing for both batch and real-time high volume data processing 
• Experience in understanding complex SQLs and exposure to Database Design Concepts including Data Modeling, Logical/Conceptual Design 

Location:

• Toronto, ON