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SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Role Description

JRI America (Tralee, Ireland) are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Innovation and FinTech Lab Development Team. This is a superb opportunity where you will be responsible for design and implementation of software solutions with a focus on next generation technologies. You will work initially with a small group of developers on all aspects of delivery. This includes design, coding, unit testing, code reviews, end-to-end testing, supporting the various phases of the SDLC, and automated deployment into the Lab environment and beyond.

Role Objectives

• Collaborate, design develop and document containerized microservices. Integrate with other services both internal and cloud-based providers.

• Participate in the Agile software development process and coordinate with other teams on developments in your group.

• Focus on high quality, secure applications that are verifiable through extensive automated build and test across all phases of the development lifecycle, TTD, Integration, Smoke Testing.

• Collaborate and assist in building out DevOps pipelines that will automate the build, security scanning and deployment of your applications, automate as much as possible.

• Identify and differentiate between services specific to your area of interest and those that could benefit the wider areas of investigation (shared services). Collaborate with platform team to implement and deploy those shared services.

• Provide input to design sessions to ensure solutions are clean, secure, robust, consistent and follow the standards of the lab.

• Think strategically and explore future capabilities as well as current. Innovation is key to the work you do. Explore and share better ways of doing with your own team and others.

• Assist in troubleshooting and problem solving, both at design level and deployed applications.

• Provide support and documentation for handover to downstream development teams that will continue onward development of lab products.

• Guide and mentor junior-level team members to ensure that high-quality and consistent delivery is achieved.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in software development related discipline, information technology, computer science/engineering, etc.

• 10+ years polyglot software development experience in two or more of, Java, Typescript/Javascript and Python

• Demonstratable history of software design and implementation using design and architectural patterns (GoF/PoEAA) and concepts that adhere to SOLID principles.

• Experience and commitment to code quality and test frameworks, JUnit/Mockito/Surefire (Java), Jest, PyTest/Behave, Postman/Bruno and automation requirements for each.

• Understanding of common patterns of enterprise software development, RESTful web services, SOA and/or Microservices, Message and Queue services (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Azure Storage Queues), Swagger, Observability.

• Strong understanding of authentication and authorization concepts such as IdP (Azure AD/Okta), SAML, OAuth/OpenID, JWT and SSO.

• Experience with containerizing applications with Docker, Docker Compose/Swarm, Kubernetes, Helm.

• At ease with git and various branching strategies, what is required to implement CI/CD pipelines as code (Jenkins/Azure DevOps).

• Familiarity with requirements and usage of vulnerability scanning tools for code and dependencies, such as SonaType Nexus IQ and SonarQube.

• Developed secure software for cloud infrastructures utilizing usage of SDKs and services (compute, storage, analytics, etc) ideally Azure but transferrable knowledge from AWS/GCP considered.

• Database design experience (Relational/NoSQL). Good working knowledge of security and performance of transactional data sources, JDBC, JPA and SpringData. Normalization and Denormalization tradeoffs.

• Some experience with Angular and/or React frameworks would be beneficial.

Additional Requirements

D&I Commitment

Responsible for fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, holding leaders accountable for creating an inclusive environment through awareness and practice of equity in recruiting, developing, and promoting diverse talent.

SMBC’s employees participate in a hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.