Applications Development Manager

Global Financial Firm located in Tampa/ Irving has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Applications Development Manager

"This role is currently on a Hybrid Schedule.
You will need to have reliable internet, computer and android or iphone for remote access into the client systems during remote work.
We will be expected in the office weekly 2-3 days depending on the team requirement.

Video/ f2f interviews are required prior to all offers

BUSINESS OVERVIEW:

The Information Services Group (ISG) is responsible for providing authoritative sources of reference data to our clients across Banking's Markets, Services, Banking, Personal Banking and Global Wealth businesses. ISG implements state of the art technologies and operational processes which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account, corporate action, financial, documents, calendar/holiday data. The ISG organization has a very diverse portfolio of clients and works in partnership with them to deploy solutions to increase their competitiveness, through restructuring business processes, simplifying information access, and providing business intelligence around critical data.

The Price and Calendar technology team will be responsible for building the next generation holiday data platform supporting the bank s books and records and over 300 downstream consumers within the Banking. This involves end to end responsibilities from data modeling, application design, data integration / analysis and working with the business partners and vendor data feeds for implementation. Product, Price, and Calendar reference data is critical to the bank and must be available, accurate, and complete for global financial markets and the bank s regulatory commitments.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

The VP, Applications Development Senior Manager, is a hands-on technical management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Required skills:
Experience with the following technologies:
Strong hold on Java (Core, JDBC, MT, Collections, I/O), Spring Boot, Akka
Good to have exposure on functional programming based on Scala.
Exposure to Oracle DB and extensive knowledge on SQL/PL-SQL, query tuning, sharing best practices.
Experience on designing and developing data intensive application with low latency response.
Knowledge of Tomcat or Weblogic application server
REST web services
Experience working with a NoSQL database, preferably Mongodb & Redis
Sound knowledge on microservice architecture & container environment
Physical and logical data modeling
Experience using the following JIRA, uDeploy, Sonarqube, TeamCity, Artifactory, Git (BitBucket), K8s, Openshift
Unix commands and Korn shell scripting.
Familiarity with standard data structures and algorithms.
Logical thinking, strong analytical and problem-solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented

Responsibilities:
Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications.
Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects.
Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas.
Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals.
Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations.
Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.
Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary.
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Banking, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:
6-10 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
Experience as Applications Development Manager
Experience as senior level in an applications Development role
Stakeholder and people management experience
Demonstrated leadership skills.
Proven project management skills
Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.

Education:
Bachelor s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Master s degree preferred.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.