SVP Java Engineering Lead

The IB Tech & CRM/Analytics team is a highly strategic and crossfunctional team responsible for leading the firms global digitalization effort. This initiative spanning all clientfacing business units and corporate functions will drive innovation and strategic change through technology data science and deep analytics. The team partners with key business leaders and industry experts to build transformational technology to drive revenue maximize efficiency and optimize the allocation of resources. The IB Tech & CRM/Analytics team is at the forefront of Jefferies cloud initiative leveraging bestinclass cloudbased technologies to replace legacy onpremises solutions to provide intelligent trend insights actionable opportunities decision support and transparency into all client and businessrelated activities.

Job Highlights:

• Exciting and unique opportunity to be a member of our corporate IB Tech & CRM/Analytics Team tackling our toughest and most exciting data engineering challenges across multiple divisions in Jefferies.
• Modern fully cloudnative tech stack that leverages several AWS products to orchestrate an event driven data distribution platform.
• Collaborate with our team of passionate and innovative data specialists application developers and product managers.

Key Responsibilities:

We are looking for a lead Java engineer who will:

• Contribute to the endtoend SDLC process on highimpact Madison projects from conception for new maintenance for existing design implementation testing release and support.
• Facilitate alignment across IB Tech & CRM/Analytics teams on goals outcomes priorities deadlines and deliverables.
• Influence mentor and collaborate with a distributed set of engineers within multiple time zones to set clear standards and best practices
• Write readable testable and maintainable code
• Drive innovation of new technologies

Experience Needed:

• 12 years of experience with Java development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical solutions in a clear and concise manner
• Hands on experience designing developing and delivering Javabased APIs (GraphQL/OpenAPI/gRPC) and Microservices using Spring Boot and AWS products (ECR/EKS/EC2/Beanstalk)
• Experience with Streaming Technologies like Kafka including designing and developing complex scalable and highperformance applications. Proven track record of delivering robust and efficient solutions in a fastpaced environment.
• Experience in working with SQL building Stored Procedures Functions and Data Warehousing solutions.
• Strong problemsolving skills and design skills with focus on distributed highly available and fault tolerant systems
• Experience in developing TDD/BDD unittests and work with Quality Assurance team members on defect triage and resolution.
• Proactively participates in Agile Ceremonies like Sprint Planning Backlog Grooming etc. and experience in working with virtual teams.
• Provides Leadership skills in mentoring team members resolving technical challenges and performing code reviews in a peer programming environment.
• Experience building systems from scratch demonstrating a deep understanding of software architecture and design principles.
• Indepth knowledge of Kafka and its ecosystem with prior experience in eventdriven architecture. Ability to design and develop robust data pipelines and streaming applications.
• Experience with AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) including deploying and managing containerized applications. Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong multitasking skills and able to learn new technologies quickly

Good to Have:

• Exposure to FrontEnd web development (Angular/React/JavaScript/Typescript)
• Exposure to Financial Services & Investment Banking business domain.
• Exposure to Salesforce or similar CRM EcoSystem.
• Exposure to Business Intelligence tools (Tableau CRM Cognos PowerBI etc..
• Exposure to ETL & Data Engineering tools like Mulesoft StreamSets & Databricks.

The Salary Range for this position is $175000 $250000