Workstyle: This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at one of the following office locations: St. Petersburg, FL; Memphis, TN; Southfield, MI.

Job Summary:

Raymond James is looking for a UI-focused Lead Engineer to join our Enterprise Architecture team. As part of enterprise architecture you will be surrounded by experts engaged in driving technical excellence. While this includes governance and the establishment of technical standards, it also extends to maintaining foundational technologies that allow development teams to iterate quickly. You will be at the epicenter of software development at Raymond James gaining firsthand knowledge of some of the most difficult challenges in enterprise software. Disparate teams will look to you for guidance on best practices and continuing education. Some of your time will be spent authoring educational materials as well as documentation for the numerous libraries that our team is responsible for maintaining.

Our ideal candidate has:

• excellent communication skill

• equally capable working alone as in a team

• experience analyzing complex requirements and designing high quality technical solution

• a desire and knack for developing great user experience

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement automation tools that ease the maintenance burden on application teams, ensuring efficiency and reliability in application updates.

• Analyzes complex system requirements, including identifying program interactions and appropriate interfaces between impacted components and sub systems.

• Participate in the development, code reviews, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale software applications, systems, and services.

• Actively participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.

• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or to reuse of existing code.

• Leads or participates in assigned projects, including assigning tasks, coordinating efforts, and monitoring performance.

• May recommend new technologies and methodologies to management for meeting business needs, resolving problems and exploiting opportunities. Remains current with new technologies.

• Participates in software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.

• Provides technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.

• Writes and/or reviews system specifications, including output requirements and flow charts.

• Reviews test results; documents test activities, and records remedial actions.

• Ensures proper analysis of problems and programming approaches to prevent rework and schedule slippage.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilitie

Knowledge of

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business or related degree and five (5) years of relevant experience or a combination of education, training and experience approved by HR.

• Financial Services experience is a big plus.

• Technology skills (required and preferred)- as applicable to the role

Education/Previous Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business or related degree and five (5) years of relevant experience or a combination of education, training and experience approved by HR.

Experience Must Include:

• 7+ years single page application (SPA) development experience with experience in Angular preferred

• NodeJS

• Apache http server

• Experience maintaining library code

• Design Patterns and Programming Principle

• Automated Unit Testing

• Profiling and Performance Tuning

• Enterprise Scale Application Implementation

• Strategic Technical Planning

• Continuous Integration

• Change Management and Proce

Raymond James Guiding Behaviors

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.

We expect our associates at all levels to:

• Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same

• Work with and through others to achieve desired outcome

• Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind

• Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter

• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm