Senior Technical Lead

The SEI Wealth Platform has a challenging career opportunity for a Senior Technical Lead. This position requires a foundation of software development knowledge, and the ability to work in an Agile team environment and expand existing development skills through technical project work. You should be adaptable, possess a wide range of technical skills, and demonstrate the ability to understand financial services business requirements. You should be able to deliver individual code as well as technically lead a team of developers; and have the ability to switch context quickly and efficiently with project managers, database engineers, technical operations and other platform personnel.
What you will do:
• Develop and design technical solutions based on reading and understanding business and functional requirements following the Agile process
• Produce high-quality code to meet all project deadlines and ensuring the functionality matches the requirements
• Analyze and resolve issues found during the testing or pre-production phases of the software delivery lifecycle; coordinating changes with project team leaders and cross-work team members
• Provide technical leadership to project team members and responding to inquiries regarding errors or questions about programs
• Interact with data architects, other tech leads, team members and project manager as required addressing technical and scheduling issues.
• Suggest and implement process improvements for estimating, development and testing processes.
• Responsible for insuring team designs and delivers code in alignment with published SEI & industry standards.

• Provide technical problem resolution and application support, as required

What we need from you:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or another related field or equivalent
• A minimum of 10 years of prior work experience with an application development organization; must demonstrate experience delivering systems and projects from inception through implementation
• Work experience in developing Web Applications with Java, Java Script, and HTML.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working on multi-tiered applications that are designed, developed and delivered as cloud- based solutions:
  • Designing and developing Cloud Native applications,
  • Creating microservices applications using technologies such as REST, JSON, Spring Boot and Java
  • Deploying and configuring well performing Cloud Native applications
• Experience with:
  • Relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server
  • Unstructured data and persistence model such as MongoDB, Snowflake
  • DevOps toolsets for versioning, containers, such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Maven
  • ORM tools (EclipseLink, JPA)
  • Event/data streaming platform, such as Kafka
  • Spring MVC and Angular development Event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and API-first development
  • Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana

Additional knowledge and/or experience desired:

• Development experience in the financial services industry including banking, wealth management, investment management, asset data and investment processing
• Possesses Azure, AWS, or OCI certifications
• Test Driven Development
• Application migrations to the cloud
• CI/CD and DevOps concepts, tools like Ansible, Terraform and library management tools like Artifactory
• Identity Technologies (OAuth, Azure AD, AWS IAM, OKTA, Ping)
• Angular, Typescript, or React
  

What we would like from you:

•     Exceptional communication abilities

•     Advanced system and technical analysis expertise

•     Strong self-motivation and capability to manage multiple priorities effectively

•     Demonstrated capacity to build robust internal networks across the platform

•     Superior collaboration, negotiation, and conflict management skills

•     Creative thinking and aptitude for identifying optimal solutions

•     Proficiency in developing concrete results and deliverables from abstract concepts

•     Outstanding problem-solving capabilities

•     Diagnostic proficiency in analyzing technical, business, and financial challenges and solutions

•     Ability to draw insights from prior examples and eagerness to comprehend application architecture

•     Results-oriented approach with adaptability to rapid change

•     Commitment to exemplify SEI's core values: courage, integrity, collaboration, inclusion, connection, and fun

SEI’s competitive advantage:

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including comprehensive care for your physical and mental well-being, a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, support for working parents and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. 

Benefits include healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription, wellness, EAP, FSA), life and disability insurance (premiums paid for base coverage), 401(k) match, education assistance, commuter benefits, up to 11 paid holidays/year, 21 days PTO/year pro-rated for new hires which increases over time, paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, a discounted stock purchase plan, investment options, access to thriving employee networks and more.

We are a technology and asset management company delivering on our promise of building brave futures (SM)—for our clients, our communities, and ourselves.  Come build your brave future at SEI.  

The position title reflected in this job description is aligned with SEI's current internal job architecture. As part of SEI's role and career framework, internal job titles may not directly correspond to external market titles and may differ from titles previously assigned during an employee's tenure or at the time of hire.

SEI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and so much more…

After over 50 years in business, SEI remains a leading global provider of investment processing, investment management, and investment operations solutions. Reflecting our experience within financial services and financial technology our offices encompass an open floor plan and numerous art installations designed to encourage innovation and creativity in our workforce. We recognize that our people are our most valuable asset and that a healthy, happy, and motivated workforce is key to our continued growth. At SEI, we’re (literally) invested in your success. We offer our employees paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, education assistance and access to thriving employee networks. 

SEI is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

AI Acceptable Use in the application and interview process:

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