Director - Prin Software Engineer

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Department

Moody's Analytics - Know Your Customer OU (KYC OU)
Engineering & Technology - Software Engineering

At Moody's Analytics Know Your Customer (KYC) / Know Your Supplier (KYS), we solve problems that matter.
We are a cross-functional team of sales and marketing, technology and product professionals who are all passionate about preventing criminal infiltration of the world's financial system and bringing transparency to global supply chains by detecting fraud, terrorism, human trafficking, and other criminal threats.
We combine the agility, passion, and dynamism of a startup with the strong positioning and stability of an established institution, providing our people with dynamic career paths and mobility options across the globe, all while having access to the entire Moody's network.
We empower our people and are committed to helping them reach their goals.
Role/Responsibilities

A Director - Principal Software Engineer fulfils the following responsibilities with little to no guidance, and also leads others in these activities:

- Act as Dev Lead for the Sofware Engineering team.
- May be a direct line manager for a small team.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts to interpret requirements for Business Missions/Epics owned by the stream.
- Provide feedback on requirements from a technical perspective, and provide estimates for user stories and tasks.
- Lead design activities for Business Missions/Epics owned by the stream.
- Take ownership of business missions/epics and stories; Implement and test features based on the requirements.
- Define and maintain coding standards, and guide team members to comply with these standards.
- Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to fix defects.
- Collaborate with build and release engineers to prepare packages and solve environment issues.
- Maintain technical documents.
- Review code, lead refactoring activities, provide guidance from technical perspective for all SE team members.
- Continuously improve our engineering practices
- Conduct training sessions and knowledge sharing in or cross the teams.
**Qualifications**:

- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related major from top institutions, Masters degree is a plus.
- Proven success designing, developing, and deploying enterprise SaaS software on AWS.
- Expert in one of the major search frameworks, such as Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene.
- Expert in data access techniques for relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, as well as NoSQL datastores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
- Proficient with industry standard big data frameworks, such as Spark, Redshift, Elastic MapReduce, AWS Glue, or Hive.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies such as test-driven development and continuous integration
- Quickly learns new technologies; is motivated to learn latest technologies, drive own professional development and shares this knowledge with others
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to lead a stream
- Works well in a fast-paced team environment; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- Has superb analytical and problem solving skills
- Must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose) and, if hired, present proof of vaccination on start date, as determined by Moody's.For San Francisco positions, qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
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- For Colorado-based roles only: the anticipated base salary range for this position is $ (131,500 ) to $ (190,600 ), depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location.
This range is based on a full-time position.
In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual performance incentive compensation.
Moody's also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.