Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. seeks a Lead Software Engineer in Rockville, MD.
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Summary of Duties: - Oversee the development of software products and work on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Oversee and manage software processes, projects, and products to improve efficiency within the organization and product area.
- Oversee software systems and processes and recommend improvements.
- Design and develop industry-leading software solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives.
- Identify gaps between system components and design and deliver technical solutions.
- Implement methods for managing and maintaining the organization's software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds.
- Develop actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicate integration recommendations to management.
- Identify ways to overcome challenging technical situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals.
- Ensure comparison of tasks and quality of work, supporting peers to ensure the team delivers consistently.
- Provide guidance to colleagues in techniques and processes.
Hybrid work:- Must work at worksite location 3 days per week. Up to 6 annual flexible weeks per year.
Education requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or closely related field.
Experience requirements: - 7 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Or, Alternatively:Education requirements: - Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or closely related field.
Experience requirements: - 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Special Skills or Other Requirements:Must have 5 years of experience with each of the following: - Designing and implementing cloud architectures on AWS Cloud (EKS, EC2, RDS, EMR, S3, Lambda, IAM, and VPC) and building scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
- Big Data technologies: Apache Spark, EMR, Hadoop ecosystem, data lakes, and distributed processing frameworks.
- Utilizing SQL for query optimization, analytics functions, performance tuning, and managing large datasets.
- Data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions, and Glue).
- DevOps practices and tools: Jenkins for CI/CD automation and pipeline development, Jira for agile project management, sprint planning, DevOps workflow tracking, and Infrastructure as-code (Terraform and CloudFormation).
- Data governance, security controls, encryption, IAM, and compliance in cloud environments.
Travel requirements: - 5% domestic travel required
Salary: $193,065.60 - $238,300 per year
Benefits: PTO; Paid leave (military, jury duty, bereavement, voting, care of a family member, & childbirth); Paid holidays; OT; Bonus; Health, dental, & vision; Basic life, AD&D, suppl. life, spouse/DP & dependent life, spouse/DP & dependent AD&D, STD, LTD, LTC, BTA, disability, & legal; 401(k) w/ match & add'l FINRA-funded retirement contrib.; Tuition reimb., commuter benefits, & other wellness benefits (adoption asst., backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee asst., & wellness programs).
Working Conditions#LI-DNITo be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.
Please note: If the "Apply Now" button on a job board posting does not take you directly to the FINRA Careers site, enter www.finra.org/careers into your browser to reach our site directly.Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
Time Off and Paid Leave*
FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.
*Based on full-time schedule
