Principal Java Developer - Vice President

In this role you will provide technical leadership for the Trade Service within Wholesale Data & Operations Technology. You own the service architecture and roadmap, guiding scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed systems and cloud adoption. You will lead a global engineering team, contribute hands-on design and coding, and ensure production resilience and 24/5 operations. You will explore AI-enabled practices to boost productivity with proper security and governance, working closely with business and technology stakeholders to shape outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to impact a critical intraday trade-distribution platform at a leading financial services firm.

• Own the service architecture and technology roadmap for Trade Service
• Provide hands-on engineering leadership through design, code reviews, and implementations
• Develop and evolve Java-based SDKs, APIs, and integrations for producer/consumer apps
• Lead and develop a globally distributed engineering team
• Promote automated testing, secure coding practices, and high code quality with CI/CD
• Manage end-to-end delivery and drive incident resolution, resilience, and continuous improvement in a 24/5 model
• Identify opportunities for Responsible AI adoption within secure governance and risk controls

• Strong Core Java, software design and coding skills
• Experience leading complex enterprise systems and mentoring engineers in distributed teams
• Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems with Kafka and/or Pulsar
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, DevOps
• Linux experience, shell scripting, production support, and troubleshooting distributed services
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with clear English communication

• effective communication
• mentoring and people leadership
• collaboration across global teams
• Apache Kafka
• Apache Pulsar
• Java