Associate Director

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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

An Associate Director - Sr. Software Engineer fulfills the following responsibilities, with occasional guidance of more senior team members:

- Interpret business requirements for a Business Mission/Epic with the assistance of Business Analysts.
- Provide feedback on requirements from a technical perspective, and provide estimates for user stories and tasks.
- Author technical design documents.
- Take ownership of stories; Implement and test features based on the requirements.
- Refactor design and implementation for stories owned, based on requirement changes.
- 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.
- Investigate and find the root cause for software problems reported by clients.
- Maintain technical documents.
- Review code of less senior team members, provide guidance from technical perspective.
- Work with more senior team members to continuously improve our engineering practices.
- Mentor more junior engineers.
- Conduct training sessions and proactively share knowledge in or across teams.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related major from top institutions, Masters degree is a plus.
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented design and development
- Production experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Proficient in data access techniques for both relational and NoSQL databases
- Works well within the constructs of an agile development process, including SCRUM, Unit Testing, Continuous Build and Integration, etc and suggests improvement to this process
- Quickly learns new technologies; proactively seeks to improve
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to participate in multiple projects concurrently and to own a business mission or a lead a small team
- Works well in a fast-paced team environment; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- Has superb analytical and problem solving skills.
- Competent in Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, C++, JavaScript, HTML/HTML5, CSS2/3, XML, XSLT, Scala, etc.
- Competent in Development tools: Eclipse (CDT), IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, etc.
- Competent in Application Servers: Tomcat, WebSphere, Resin, Jetty, Apache, ExpressJS, etc.
- Competent in Application Frameworks & Engines:, J2SE, J2EE, JDBC, RMI/IIOP, Spring framework, Spring Boot, JPA(Java Persistence API) or other ORM framework such as Hibernate or iBatics, JTA(Java Transaction API), Java WebService, Microservices, JavaMail and JMS, etc. STL, Boost, GTest, etc. JQuery, Node.js, Angular.js,React.js, Bootstrap, etc.
- Familiar with SQL and NOSQL Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Experience is writing good JUnit or TestNG test cases utilizing Mocking Framework like Mockito is a plus
- Experience with REST APIs
- Experience with ActiveMQ or other JMS systems (e.g. WebSphere MQ or RabbitMQ) is a plus
- Experience with Atlassian product suite like (Confluence/JIRA/JIRA AGILE/Crucible/Bamboo)
- 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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