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To be considered for this role, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.
The role is responsible for the analysis, design, development, maintenance, and support of software applications for customers across a variety of technology platforms and/or business lines. It acts as a project coordinator, coach, and mentor for staff when needed. It provides production support for users of software while keeping abreast of current technologies to enhance applications architecture and software design and development. This role is designated as HVA for primarily supporting a high value asset.
General Responsibilities:
- Design, prototype, and develop, debug, test, deploy, support and document highly complex application software with performance and scalability optimization.
- Analyze complex customer business needs and recommend and implement automated solutions to increase process automation, user experience, and launch of new products and services.
- Collaborate with other developers, external and/or internal, regarding highly complex system and environmental requirements and problem resolutions.
- Provide ongoing technical support to customers, including support for migrations of software applications into various environments. Provide application and technical support during all phases of the application lifecycle. Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions.
- Incorporate relevant bank, system controls, SAFR, DLP, Privacy and audit requirements into solutions upon highly complex software implementation.
- Adhere to bank and system secure coding, contingency, deployment, and software development methodologies and standards.
- Demonstrate commitment to innovation, quality, schedules, and budget. Continuous development and learning to keep abreast of application development technologies.
- Assist and/or lead technology projects and develop project management artifacts and documentation.
- Coach and mentor programming staff (senior level).
- Depending on the business line, may provide rotational, third-tier, 24x7 on-call support.
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
- Adheres to the Bank's attendance policies through regular and prompt attendance.
Education and Experience:
Software Developer:
- Associates degree and 5 years of related work experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of related work experience OR
- Master’s degree and 0-1 year of related work experience
Senior Software Developer
- Associates degree and 7 years of related work experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related work experience OR
- Master’s degree and 3 years of related work experience
Knowledge and Skills:
- Moderate knowledge of domain, regulations, procedures, and practices of a specific discipline and/or business line
- Ability to perform moderately complex independent research.
- Experience with Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform with an emphasis on serverless architecture
- Proficient with Object Oriented design and development including a thorough understanding of OO design patterns and practices.
- Moderately specialized, technical skills in applicable technologies such as Java 21 or above, Spring, Angular, Typescript, SQL, Git, GitLab, GitLab Duo, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Maven, Lambdas, Fargate, ECS, Docker, Shell Script, and AWS CDK.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- Experience with test-driven development (TDD).
- Experience with automated build tools and code quality checks.
- Continuous integration & deployment experience.
- Moderately complex analytical skills
Location: Cleveland, OH
The expected starting salary range for the Software Developer is between $90,500 and $113,100 annually and for the Senior Software Developer is between $111,400 and $139,200 annually. Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.
The Cleveland Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.clevelandfed.org/careers
Physical Demands and General Working Conditions
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time.
Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected].
Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:
As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.
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Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship required
- Associates degree and 5 years related experience (Software Developer)
- Bachelor's degree and 3 years related experience (Software Developer)
- Master's degree and 0-1 year related experience (Software Developer)
- Associates degree and 7 years related experience (Senior Software Developer)
- Bachelor's degree and 5 years related experience (Senior Software Developer)
- Master's degree and 3 years related experience (Senior Software Developer)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on serverless architecture
- Proficient in Object Oriented design and OO design patterns
- Experience with Java 21 or above and Spring
- Experience with Angular and TypeScript
- SQL experience and familiarity with Oracle and PostgreSQL
- Experience with Git, GitLab, GitLab Duo, and Maven
- Experience with AWS Lambda, Fargate, ECS, Docker, and AWS CDK
- Shell scripting experience
- Experience with Agile methodologies, test-driven development (TDD), automated build tools, code quality checks, and CI/CD
- Familiarity with secure coding, privacy, DLP, SAFR, audit, and related controls
- Ability to provide technical/production support and potentially 24x7 on-call support
- Coaching and mentoring experience for programming staff
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