Summary

Leading technical contributor to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities

Drive technical excellence by working independently to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River's business and technical problem domains including modifications to core frameworks and other primary facilities critical to system operation
Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems
Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within and beyond the team's scope of responsibility
Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve advanced software technical issues
Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business
Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews
Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product
Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks
Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product
Provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations
Actively assist team leaders in the agile software development process by adhering to and advancing the CRD scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments
Advise senior management on technical strategy
Provide mentoring to junior and senior staff

Qualifications

Education

B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred.

Experience

A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience
A minimum of 6 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired
Authoritative experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications
Demonstrated ability to design and develop simple software solutions to business and technical problems of high complexity
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology

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