A career at T. Rowe Price says you want to contribute and make a difference at a leading global investment management firm where success results from the dedication our associates have in building success for our clients. We are a growing organization of associates from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
We take a long-term view on associates and their careers. Our associates do phenomenal work with purpose, and as a result, we provide growth opportunities through in-person and online training, management development programs, and career development on the job.
If you are seeking a meaningful work experience along with a workplace culture that thrives on teamwork, we invite you to explore the opportunity to join us.
Overview
Engineers in Global Investment Operations at T. Rowe Price are playing a key role in helping build the future of financial services, working hand-in-hand with business partners to build client experiences that are changing the way people invest. We want technologists with a new perspective who are passionate about solving business, data and technical challenges. You will build groundbreaking, next-generation applications for n-tier cloud architectures. You’ll be involved, hands-on, through the entire development cycle. And you’ll redefine the way our traders, portfolio managers and analysts serve our clients.
We are working to develop the firm's next generation data distribution platform, with the aim to seamlessly deliver real-time and on-demand investments data to a global network of distributed trading and research platforms. We are employing new paradigms such as cloud computing, lightweight microservices, and distributed and non-relational databases to deliver elastically scalable, globally distributed and highly resilient software services.
This is a hands-on, full development lifecycle role which provides an opportunity to tackle sophisticated business, logic, data and technical challenges. As the leader of your engineering team, you will be required to think creatively and bring ground breaking technology in-house. We will expect you to be agile / to lead / to think outside the box. In return, we’ll give you challenging work that has an impact / opportunities to learn and grow / and a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to bring their point of view to the table—because that’s how we help our clients succeed.
Are you a leader who can provide direction through large teams of professionals and through other managers? Are you able to work with executives to build and execute on key business priorities? Do you strive bring both a near and long-term perspective to your decisions? If so, we encourage you to apply.
Role summary and job responsibilities
Manages a development team to deliver projects which achieve target outcomes
You'll demonstrates exceptional hands-on capability to drive components to delivery
Apply people management skills to coach, mentor and develop engineers on the team
You'll assume ownership over the quality, TCO, maintainability and security of the solutions built by our team
Help design specific elements of the GTS Technical strategy and drive its execution within your domain of responsibility.
You'll identify non-obvious relationships and anomalies often overlooked by others
Balance strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems
You'll seek to detects and overcome issues before the broader team is aware of them
Provide timely feedback and coaching to individuals and teams using data to reinforce learning
You'll be accountable for the developing and mentoring of direct reports
Responsible for recruitment and performance management of associates
Overcome differences of opinion and drive team alignment around a specific goal or solution
Owns technical debt across their development team
Business knowledge
You demonstrate a deep knowledge of products/flows within supported businesses
Articulate broader business concerns and/or regulatory landscape, including key risks and controls (e.g., GDPR, MIFID, SOX)
You make decisions that are cognizant of the firm’s broader business strategy
Requirements
BS/MS in Computer Science or another related discipline and 10+ years of progressive Object Oriented development experience (Java preferred)
Experience building containerized applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or similar providers.
Experience with automated delivery pipelines, agile delivery and test-driven development
In-depth experience with server-side frameworks such as Spring Boot and Tomcat
In-depth knowledge of software design patterns
In-depth RDBMS development experience (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
Solid understanding of Spark, Redshift, Apache Ni-Fi helpful
Solid understanding of cloud native architectures (AWS, etc.) for containerized microservices
Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced, Agile team environment
Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and senior business leaders
Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views
Passion for learning & results oriented
A solid understanding of financial markets and instruments is a plus
Current with many best-of-breed technologies
Shows a commitment to quality by implementing suitable software using unit/integration and acceptance testing at the time of feature development
Debugs large components with limited assistance and assists other engineers with debugging
At some levels, leads code reviews and actively participates in providing feedback on others’ designs/code
Performs as a specialist in one or more parts of the software lifecycle (e.g., coding, testing, deployment). Coordinates significant pieces of development within the development lifecycle
Designs and develops practical APIs and abstractions.
Owns technical debt in their own software
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As part of T. Rowe Price’s Health and Safety protocols, effective October 19, 2021, any US-based new hires, including interns will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a valid medical or religious exemption from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, colour, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.