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;

Job Summary:

As part of the Wealth Management technology team, this Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain on premise and cloud applications. Being a Fortune 500 company; this position provides unparalleled job security, along with the opportunity to learn from experienced developers in a fun and encouraging environment. The core team is based out of our headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL (Hybrid).

The perfect candidate is goal & detail oriented and is a passionate developer who is eager to grow and learn. This candidate also exhibits excellent English written and oral communication skills allowing them to clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support and build the technical solution for a scalable and highly available environment into on-premises and External Cloud Environments.

• Design, Engineer and build networking, security, logging, monitoring and persistent storage.

• Research and recommend innovative technologies and approaches for private and public cloud infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements, while adhering to technical or budgetary constraints.

• Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications - analyzing technical areas for improvement.

• Obtain and evaluate new tools and technology frameworks - on factors such as costs, performance, and security to determine solution patterns and services.

• Participates in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation.

• Responsible for understanding deeply the end to end data requirements, application and service requirements and designing end to end solutions.

• Participate in the Agile or Waterfall development lifecycle, including daily stand-ups and biweekly sprint planning.

• Communicate across departments within the company and with business users to solve problems.

• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Skill in:

• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, MKS, AirFlow, RedShift, Glue, EMR and S3.

• Experience with Confluent Kafka, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

• Proficiency in Python and/or Java programming.

• Experience in building robust data pipelines, ETL and data processing using Spark; Building and scaling the distributed infrastructure of Amazon's EMR platform; SQL and multiple programming languages to optimize data processes and retrieval.

Knowledge of:

• Java, J2EE development with working knowledge of Spring and ORM (Hibernate preferred), Spring Boot, cache implementations.

• Experience with cloud-native solution architecture and design patterns.

• Experience with Oracle or RedShift (or similar DB platforms), ETL architecture and development.

• Experience with Monitoring / APM tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.), and logging tools such as Splunk.

• Good knowledge of DevOps & collaboration tools: Jenkins, GIT, TFS, Sonar.

Ability to:

• Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.

• Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

• Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.

• Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.

• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

• Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.

• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

Education/Previous Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business or related degree and three(3) to five (5) years of relevant experience or a combination of education, training and experience approved by HR.

• Experience in Financial Services Industry is nice to have.

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