What You'll Do:

This role supports and works collaboratively with business analysts, team leads and development team. A contributor in developing scalable and resilient hybrid and Cloud-based data solutions supporting critical financial market clearing and risk activities; collaborate with other developers, architects and product owners to support enterprise transformation into a data-driven organization. The Specialist, Application Developer will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

• Support the application development of real-time and batch applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment

• Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation

• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented

• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements

• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required

• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management

• Experience with resolving security vulnerabilities

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

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.

• [Required] 3+ year of experience in building high speed, real-time and batch solutions

• [Required] Java 3+ years experience

• [Required] Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc

• [Required] Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

• [Required] Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc

• [Required] Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google

• [Required] Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus

• [Required] Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph

• [Required] Experience following Git workflows

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

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

• [Required] Hands-on experience with Java version 8 onwards, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices, REST API

Technical Skills:

• [Required] At least 3 years of Java experience required, including deep understanding of Java fundamentals as Memory Model, Runtime Environment, Concurrency and Multithreading

• [Required] Experience following Git workflows

• [Required] Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, TestNG, Citrus etc.

• [Preferred] Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks AWS EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, S3, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc. (a plus)

• [Preferred] Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

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

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

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required

• [Preferred] MS in Computer Science

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Preferred] OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification

• [Preferred] AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level

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 2 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

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Step 3
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer