BGC Technology is looking for a dynamic development manager to lead the software team in building its new commercial data products. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of modernizing data infrastructures and software within the financial industry.
Key Tasks/Duties
* Lead full life-cycle software development * Manage many development projects at one time * Drive the development process through design implementation and deployment for each project. * Mentor team members encouraging career and personal growth * Ensure the team meets all deadlines and launch dates through an effective sprint planning process * Collaborate effectively across many different teams including infrastructure, product, and other dev teams. * Manage all technical specs and implementation schedules * Offer expertise during the design and build phases
Experience
* Minimum BA/BS in Engineering or Computer Science * Complete SDLC exposure * Expert Object Oriented Design and implementation * 8+ years Java/C++ (We are mostly Java) experience dealing with real-time multi-threaded systems as well as web based applications * 8+ years working with Oracle/SQL or comparable RDBMS with skills to create and maintain stored procedures, manage database objects and perform data optimization tasks as necessary * 5+ Years working in "Big Data" technologies, for example, Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Cassandra, etc. * Experience in handling large real-time data volumes * Recent AWS data pipeline architecture experience
Skill Sets/Competencies
* Competency - Able to lead a group to maintain existing applications and develop new ones with short iterative development cycles. * Competency - Able to solve complex technical problems and effectively communicate solutions. * Competency - Strong interpersonal, presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal. * Expert Java/C++ * Expert Linux/Unix shell scripting * Experience with RDBMS (Oracle, Postgres, Sybase) * Expert Data warehouse * Expert Big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Cassandra or AWS equivalents. * Experience in DevOps / Cloud deployment workflows/techniques * Some of the following: Python or other scripting languages, .Net, Junit, FIX experience, kdb+
About Bgc Partners
BGC Partners is a brokerage company servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets.