Position Description: 

***Applicants are permitted to work remotely from an at-home work site anywhere in the United 

States.*** 

Leads, architects, and manages projects and teams to develop Cloud-based brokerage applications within an Agile environment (Kanban and Scrum). Uses source control for feature-driven development in Bitbucket and Stash. Performs automated deployment in uDeploy. Develops regulatory reporting, using Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).  

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Oversees changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management. 

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.  

• Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams.  

• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.  

• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.  

• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.  

• Consults on the documentation of major technology applications.  

• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.  

• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.  

• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.  

• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.  

• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.  

• Advises senior management on technical strategy.  

• Mentors junior team members on functionality of application processes, troubleshooting, and coding best practices.  

• Researches and recommends new technologies.  

• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.  

• Provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.  

• Identifies and plans for future resource needs. 

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering Development (or closely related occupation) designing, coding, and implementing high volume brokerage regulatory reporting applications.  

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering Development (or closely related occupation) designing, coding, and implementing high volume brokerage regulatory reporting applications. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) gathering and interpreting business, functional, and technical requirements -- interacting with end-users or end-user representatives to define, interpret, and clarify the scope of complex business requirements and process issues into logical use cases (epics and stories) -- to support the building or enhancement of reporting applications according to regulatory agency standards (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)).   

• DE developing and maintaining regulatory applications to ensure brokerage operations adhere to SEC and FINRA requirements and guidelines, using development, code repository, utility, and build creation tools -- Eclipse, Jenkins, Qpad, QStudio, uDeploy, Winscp, and Kdiff.  

• DE developing KDB based applications -- designing and maintaining KDB databases, Q programming, real-time database, ticker plants, tick data, and interfaces -- using Java, Oracle, and Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS).  

• DE supporting the creation, implementation, and maintenance of KDB databases and associated processes, using bash and shell scripting; and scheduled jobs, using Control-M. 

Salary: $185,000.00 - $194,000.00/year. 

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