Senior Software Engineer, Assoc. Dir - San Francisco, United States - Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Description

Job Description:

Purpose:

Acts as a senior technical team member of a software development team and provides business support for the production systems in assigned business units. Participates in all phases of the system development life cycle. Recommends designs, develops, integrates, and implements custom and packaged solutions to achieve business goals. Delivers solutions that are fit for purpose and meets overall quality standards. Leverages internal client relationships to resolve complex support issues.

Major Accountabilities:

Engineer Responsibilities:

• Participate in project analysis, design, and implementation phases
• Analyze project requirements and accordingly provide technical and functional recommendations
• Prepare user requirements, technical specifications, and design specifications
• Develop new software and modify existing software when required
• Suggest coding standards and participate in Peer Code Review processes
• Provide technical support of system acceptance testing and validation activities
• Understand and follow agile project processes as prescribed
• Follow existing engineering processes and recommend improvements
• Perform system maintenance and support periodic review processes
• Review and recommend improvements to existing system designs
• Recommend solutions to improve system performance and reliability
• Respond to customer queries and concerns in a timely fashion. Suggest new designs to eliminate future issues.
• Collaborate with teammates and business partners regarding new ideas, issues and projects
• Perform system failure analysis and drive corrective actions. Participate in root cause analysis and suggest long term solutions.

Education/Experience/Skills/Knowledge:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Accounting, and Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience, is required.

Experience:
Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, implementing, and supporting business applications, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Understanding of operating systems, application security configurations, and best practices in Windows and Linux environment is required.
• Ability to take the initiative to pursue assignments, responsibilities, and support requests to a logical and final solution and to employ System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards is required.
• Working knowledge of fixed income and derivative instruments, treasury, capital markets, and accounting knowledge is highly desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience:
• 7+ years of Object-oriented programming (OOP), Java experience of designing, proposing, documenting technology solutions and development experience of client applications, web services, and web applications.
• Relational Database Management Systems, such as Oracle, including PL/SQL and expert SQL.
• Experience in C#.NET is highly desirable.
• Working experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular and Serverless Framework is desirable.
• Designing, developing, and implementing web services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Representational State Transfer (REST) environment.
• Diagnosing and resolving complex issues with banking/capital markets systems.
• Developing functional and technical specifications for financial and/or accounting system (vendor or in-house) enhancements.
• Prior experience in large-scale enterprise-wide system implementation in financial services or similar experience strongly preferred.
• Prior experience in collaborating directly with business users to gather requirements, ensuring technical solutions meet business needs.
• Experience in modern CI/CD tools and practices
• Creating and executing application test cases and test plans.

SALARY RANGE: $175K - $190K

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. We value and actively seek to recruit, develop, and retain individuals with varied backgrounds and experiences reflecting the full diversity of the communities that we serve. It is the policy of the Bank to comply with all applicable laws concerning the employment of persons with disabilities.

Salary ranges reflect the base salary that the Bank reasonably expects to pay for a given role and is not inclusive of annual incentive award opportunities, retirement benefits or the value of other health and welfare or other ancillary benefits. We consider many factors when determining base salaries such as individual background and experience, the competitive environment, education, particular skill set(s), and industry and institutional knowledge.

The Bank is committed to offering all team members challenging and engaging work with market competitive pay, retirement, and benefit offerings. In support of this commitment, the Bank routinely engages in market competitive benchmarking surveys and analysis to ensure our team members continue to be paid fairly and competitively.