Job Description

Principal Software Engineer, Vault

Description
BNY Mellon Data and Analytics Solutions is a public- and private-cloud-based software and content offering that builds client-centric data, technology, and content capabilities. Operating with the skill and agility of a fintech, Data and Analytics Solutions combines the expertise and resources of the Eagle product suite, Intermediary Analytics, and other BNY Mellon technology and data assets. Moreover, the division further extends BNY Mellons Asset Servicing capabilities in securities and cash into the worlds most important asset class, data. Data and Analytics Solutions helps firms to analyze their data from different vantage points and transform it into actions that can achieve higher alpha and cheaper beta, with lower costs and less risk.
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Vault team to work on their Data Fabric project.
Our tech stack is: Java, JSON Rest services, Python, and JavaScript (Angular). The platform runs in the Azure cloud and leverages cloud-based technologies like Cosmos, Snowflake, Service Bus, Event Hub, Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Spark, AzureML. We have a sophisticated CI/CD environment incorporating the latest DevOps technologies and best practices.

What You Will Do
Own the code. You will be entrusted to bring forth unique/innovative solutions to challenging problems and own them from ideation through implementation.
Work with Product Management, User Experience and clients to understand requirements and drive feature development
Within an Agile environment, own the design, development, maintenance, testing strategy, and operations of API services written primarily in Python with SQL and NoSQL databases hosted in Azure.
Care about agility and scalability we work in a CI/CD environment and roll out products very quickly and we are building teams that can pivot quickly.
Work with your team on design sessions and ensure your team delivers high quality work that aligns with BNY Mellons engineering strategy.
Collaborate with engineering leads across the Data and Analytics solutions to define milestones and deliveries for new functionality as well as enhancements

You will be Successful If You:
Have deep architectural knowledge of programming, design principles and data structures
Design code that can be changed/refactored easily. This includes not only a design that allows for it but the unit tests to prove nothing will break
Have experience in multiple languages and can articulate what you like/dont like about them
Have experience with distributed and big data computing technologies and Platforms
Understand the importance of tests and CI/CD pipelines, SaaS technologies, and public cloud providers such as Azure or AWS.

About Us:
BNY Mellon provides investment management and investment services that help individuals and institutions invest, conduct business and transact in markets all over the world. Headquartered in New York, BNY Mellons 53,000 employees are located in 36 countries and serve more than 100 markets. As a leading Globally Significant Financial Institution, BNY Mellon has approximately $32.2 trillion in Assets under Custody (AuC) and administration, more than $1.8 trillion of assets under management and manages ~40 petabytes of data on behalf of its clients. In addition, the company is the worlds largest provider of Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipt services and a leading provider of Broker Dealer, Liquidity, Payment and Global Markets services. BNY Mellon ranks as the 7th largest global asset manager and 8th largest US wealth manager.

BNY Mellon is singularly focused on serving our clientsits one of the things that differentiates us as a company and a culture. Technology is critical to that missionmaking our clients more efficient, and protecting them and the global markets in which they operate with world-class risk management and resiliency.

Consults with internal business groups to provide highly advanced application software development services or technical support. Must have thorough and demonstrative knowledge on or both the user-side frontend of a website, as well as the backend, server-side that powers the user-side. Additional requirements include intermediate understanding of security principles, relational databases and architecture design principles. Consults to IT and business managers on issues, questions and problems related to his/her area of expertise. Accountable for resolving highly complex problems that have impact on the corporation's ability to conduct business. Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code. Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites. Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to satisfy requirements and solutions. Maintain software functionality and currency (technical debt and gain). Actively participate in code reviews. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system. Apply security and privacy principles. Uses in-depth knowledge of various technologies to establish and influence implementation of broad-based technology strategy for large IT Divisions. Active learning engagement. Complete all required mandatory training / policy awareness curricula on time. Use learning tools such as Pluralsight to complete both recommended and aspirational targets set in personal development plans. Stays abreast of emerging technologies . Educates business leaders and prepares presentations for the business on IT strategies. Advocates for innovative, creative technology solutions. Mentors junior level engineers Expertise in using a specific application development toolkit and proficiency of front end and backend development coding languages such as C, Java, HTML, NodeJS, CSS, JSON, Angular, JavaScript. Must also have proficiency in application frameworks and containerization. Communications and organization skills; team work skills ; possess strong interpersonal skills to support mentoring Contributes to the achievement of Application Development objectives

Qualifications

MODIFIED BASED UPON LOCAL REGULATIONS/REQUIREMENTS Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree is beneficial 14+ years of experience in software development required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus. Job holder must have understanding interdependencies and business impact of future IT plans. S/he must have extensive experience selecting and implementing vendor-specific methodologies and prior consulting experience with structured methodologies. Extensive experience with developing and supporting mainframe applications required. Job holder must have broad experience with multi-platform development tools and toolkits.