Nuveen, a subsidiary of TIAA, is looking for a Senior Lead Application Developer role to join Middle Office Technology team. The position will be responsible for design and development of solutions supporting Middle Office Technology functions at Nuveen. Candidate will be an active partner in working with the IT Leadership and Business Unit Leaders to develop strategic roadmaps, develop effective change initiatives, and successfully delivering the plans and deliverables to meet their business objectives. To achieve this, the candidate must demonstrate understanding of investment data management processes and technology and successfully collaborate with other team members to foster a strong working relationship with our business partners.

In addition, this position will need to coordinate responses when critical issues arise that affect the business or could potentially cause operational risk to Nuveen.   As a Sr. Lead Developer with subject matter expertise, this role will oversee the full life cycle of the delivery of solutions.  Oversight and guidance may include work in the realms of: basic research, application configuration, implementation, testing and supporting the solution. 

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Liaise closely with Leveraged Finance Business and Application Analysts to generate Technical Design by leveraging functional requirement documents and design specifications to migrate applications from On-prem to Cloud.

• Maintain and work closely with business/operation team related to Portal Applications day to day activities.

• Involve in fixing any bugs or develop code for any new enhancement for portal applications.

• Act as a Technical SME and business point of escalation for design issues

• Document current state Technical workflows across the business areas defined in the summary and design end to end strategic workflows meeting key business and operational needs

• Lead the preparation and coordination of integration and user acceptance Build and Deploy activities across multiple applications and Business and Application Analysts, ensuring issues are resolved in a pragmatic and timely manner

• Assist Project Manager/Cloud Dev Manager to supply accurate technical estimation details to derive the target deployment milestones.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Required

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
9IC

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 5+ years of Buy/Sell side experience working at Hedge Fund/Investment Manager leading Developers to design & code complex and strategically relevant projects
• Experience in Java/J2EE/Weblogic/Middleware Technologies/SQL/Unix.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS - With multiple AWS services beyond traditional IaaS. Working expereince with AWS Cloud products (EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, EKS, DMS data migration, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, , Micro Services, S3, Athena, QuickSight, Spice, IAM on Azure AD, Prism Alerts and VPC etc) experience.
• Hands on working Experience with Web Frame works such as Angular/C#/Spring Boot/React and/or Java
• Strong Database experience (e.g. RDS, Oracle, SQL Server, MYSQL, MongoDB or PostGre)
• Experience in CI/CD tools (Electric Flow, Ansible, or Puppet, Jenkins, Github, Git, Maven, Docker, Atom).
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing either AWS services such as CodeBuild/Commit/Deploy or third-party tools such as ElectricFlow or Jenkins.
• Two (2) years of demonstrated programming ability, skillset in designing and developing automation scripts using Python
• Ability to document current and target state Technical workflows using tools such as Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience in Operations and Production Support.
• Exposure to Sterling Integrator, Autosys, DataStage
• Experience in Eagle STAR, Eagle PACE accounting system
• Ability to follow Hybrid Project Management Methodologies using Waterfall and SCRUM across projects and programs
• Strong compute, storage N/W, Linux, Azure AD, NAS exposure
• AWS Security: Compliance, Cloud Security Architecture, third-party security tools/platforms, encryption/KMS/CloudHSM, PRISM Alerts, IAM policies/roles etc.
• Cloud Native Application Architecture: AWS PaaS/SaaS services, Server less architecture, Lambda, API Gateway, Lightweight architectures including JavaScript frameworks (AngularJS/React) and single page web applications.

Anticipated Posting End Date:

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.  In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans). 

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