[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @U.S. Bank

Role Description

U.S. Bank is seeking the position of Lead Software Engineer - Calypso in Charlotte, North Carolina.

• Design, develop, implement, and support enterprise trading, risk & collateral management solutions for business needs using the Calypso trading application.
• Support and maintain existing Calypso implementation.
• Support the business end-to-end for all trading and post trade requirements including accounting and regulatory reporting.
• Provide support and maintenance of the existing system and development of various projects/interfaces required for business needs and compliance.
• Interact with business users to gather requirements in capital markets (derivatives, fixed income, commodities, and collateral management) and translate them into Calypso system configurations and custom extensions, define JIRA user stories, organize meetings and coordinate among business and interface partners.
• Design and implement software solutions using Java, Calypso APIs, and related technologies to support trade lifecycle management, pricing, risk, settlement, and collateral workflows.
• Work with all stakeholders to prepare detailed project plans that include clearly written expectations.
• Lead development team for development, support and enhancement activities for Treasury Products and Hedge Accounting.
• Lead effort towards Proof of Concept for new initiatives and Test Planning.
• Design, implement, test and maintain the Calypso application using Calypso, Unix, Jenkins, AutoSys and Java.
• Develop RESTful APIs to provide real time information for Hedge Accounting Tool (HAT) and provide accessibility for Hedge Relationship/Accounting reports.
• Configure and maintain risk analysis reports.
• Configure and set-up products (FHLB Advances (Structured Flows) & Bond FRN) for Treasury Desk.
• Participate in end-to-end SDLC (requirement gathering, technical design, coding, unit testing, deployment, and production support).
• Optimize system performance, troubleshoot complex issues, and provide Level 3 support to operations, traders, and risk teams.
• Mentor junior developers and collaborate with QA, DevOps, and business analysts in an Agile environment.
• Document technical specifications, workflows, and best practices in accordance with corporate standards.
• Manage the development codebase in GitLab repository.
• Propose test plan to cover all scenarios like End of Day processing, GL reconciliation and Report generation.
• Provide support in executing different types of trades in existing Calypso implementation.
• Position may allow working from home within commuting distance of worksite location. Multiple Positions.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or Computer Science and Engineering plus 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related.

Requirements

• Must possess 5 years of experience with all of the following:
• Designing, developing, implementing, testing and maintaining the Calypso application using Java, Spring, and Hibernate.
• Developing custom code changes in Calypso for maintenance items using Java and J2EE development and Calypso SDK.
• Developing and enhancing the functionality for FX products including FX Options, GL reconciliation and report generation in Calypso.
• Providing accounting configuration support.
• Oracle database including stored procedures and performance tuning.
• SDLC methodologies (either Agile or Waterfall) using Jira.
• Knowledge of Derivatives, FX, Commodities, Securities financing.
• Utilizing the following: Java, XML, RESTful Web Services, Java Script, AutoSys, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix or Linux, JSON, Git, Jenkins and Maven.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law