Director Application Services
Summary
About Us
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the largest equity derivatives organization in the world. We provide central counterparty clearing and settlement services for equity options, futures, options on futures, and securities lending transactions. We serve approximately 115 clearing members and 15 exchanges including CBOE, Nasdaq, and NYSE.
What We Need
We are building a culture that empowers continued learning, authentic innovation, and constant creativity. We need experienced engineers that can live in Sweden for a 6-month, extensive, training program. While in Sweden, you will work side by side with a world class software development team on OCC's next generation, event driven, clearing system. After the 6-month period, you will return to the USA and continue work as a member of OCC's development staff, spreading the knowledge and culture learned in Sweden. We are looking for an individual to join our team as a Software Engineer with the following skills and abilities:
We are looking for an individual to join our team as a Director, Software Development with the following skills and abilities:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
What You’ll Do
You’ll be working alongside experts that are building OCC’s next generation clearing and settlement system, and paving the future of digital transformation in the capital markets industry by:
Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems.
Leading, managing, and coaching multiple software engineering teams that develop solutions to complex technical challenges.
Ensuring all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards.
Leading cross-functional meetings and fostering teamwork; driving issue escalation and resolution.
Improving the efficiency and velocity of your software engineering teams.
Monitoring and maintaining quality and test coverage of your team’s codebase.
Managing the technical debt and evolution of existing codebases in line with established principles.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Manage 30+ software engineers grouped into multiple teams
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.
Minimum Qualifications:
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent project management, organizational, and team collaboration skills
Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP
Adept at helping team members harness and develop strengths in pursuit of successful program outcomes
10+ years software development experience.
5+ years managing software development teams.
Experience working with four or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms.
Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles.
Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automated test cases, and working with test frameworks.
Deep understanding of performance issues and multi-threaded development.
Experience with continuous integration tools and techniques, automating processes, and writing scripts using Python and other languages.
Willingness to live or spend extended periods of time in Northern Europe.
Preferred Qualifications:
4+ years of work experience in the capital markets industry.
Technical Skills:
Java-based software development experience.
Experience working with four or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms.
Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles.
Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automated test cases, and working with test frameworks.
Deep understanding of performance issues and multi-threaded development.
Experience with continuous integration tools and techniques, automating processes, and writing scripts using Python and other languages.
Education and/or Experience:
Minimum Qualifications:
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of relevant work experience.
5+ years managing software development teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
4+ years of work experience in the capital markets industry.