Sr. Solutions Engineer - Messaging

  • Full-time

Company Description

At Oppenheimer Funds, our employment brand: Opportunity • Balance • Excellence, is an extension of our Company’s brand: The Right Way to Invest. It describes how the Company invests in its employees and in building a high conviction culture focused on winning. Employees view Oppenheimer Funds as more than just a place to work, but rather, a place to invest in their careers.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:
•Assist in both design and delivery of an Enterprise Messaging Platform foundationally delivered on Redhat JBoss A-MQ and Fuse ESB
•Work with development teams and other project leaders/stakeholders to provide technical solutions that enable business capabilities
•Provide expert consultancy and mentoring to formulate technical strategies and align them to both technology and business goals and objectives
•Explore and recommend improved methods for meeting technology demands
•Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout software development lifecycle (requirements gathering, Proof of Concept (POC) development, RFP creation and evaluation, design, development, implementation and close out)
•Work across teams to deliver consistent technology products and promote conforming approaches and standards based development
•Work with Architecture to develop best-practices and standards for delivering Messaging as one of many Enterprise Integration Patterns
•Work with Architecture to develop reference architectures that outline architecture principles and best practices for technology advancement
•Gain adoption of platform delivery processes, standards and procedures
•Create and manage documentation and design artifacts

Qualifications

Competencies for Success:
Required:
•Bachelor''''s Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or equivalent work experience
•A minimum of 5 years work experience in Software Development
•3-5 yrs. Designing and building messaging systems using JMS (ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, TIBCO, or SonicMQ)
•3-5 yrs. designing and implementing RESTful web services on Java, J2EE, or Spring using XML, JSON, and XSLT
•3-5 yrs. Implementing and debugging multi-threaded, concurrent systems in Java
•Dev/Ops mindset, comfortable using Linux CLI and networking/process tools
•Experience working in an environment that promotes architectural principles, standards, technical trends, and industry best practices
•Experience implementing platform migration from legacy components to SOA
•Experience delivering large scale integration projects
•Experience with modern development methodologies (Agile, Kanban, XP, etc.)
•Must have outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and be comfortable working with senior leadership

Preferred:
•Experience in one or more of the following
•Redhat JBoss A-MQ / Fuse
•Apache Camel
•Spring Integration
•Grails
•Ruby
•Gradle
•API Management/API Gateway
•Ant
•Fitnesse
•HTML/XHTML/AJAX/DHTML
•JavaScript
•NoSQL
•MongoDB
•Eclipse
•SVN
•Redis
•Hadoop
•Strong understanding of data virtualization and data virtualization platforms like Denodo or Composite
•Knowledge of TOGAF and Zachman architecture frameworks
•Financial Services/Asset Management experience

OFI Core Competencies

Define Vision & Focus on Results
Understand the current business context and clearly define and articulate the intended future direction for the company and department. Set challenging, realistic, outcome driven goals that reflect an exciting vision for how the Company will innovate or compete in an evolving marketplace.

Manage Change & Take Action
Challenge the current state and make a compelling case for change and drive continuous improvement to achieve future objectives. Operate with flexibility and urgency and embrace good ideas from any source. Make decisions that align with the Company’s priorities and values.

Build Relationships & Collaborate
Build high-performance teams and coalitions that are focused on addressing the needs of the business. Form and sustain valuable internal and external business relationships and networks. Collaborate productively and with integrity to achieve and deliver results

Give Feedback & Be Accountable
Provide constructive performance-shaping feedback to individuals and groups regarding the quality and effectiveness of work. Improve performance and output by assessing patterns of success and failure. Look for opportunities to coach others and make others successful. Take personal responsibility and honor commitments.

Corporate Values

The candidate must be comfortable with continuous change and demonstrate commitment by abiding to OFI’s Corporate Values:
1.Excellence
2.Integrity
3.Collaboration
4.Passion

Additional Information

Salary: $125,100 USD

Bonus: 25%

Relocation : No

Travel: NA

Additional Benefit Information:
Full Benefits Package -  401K

DISCLAIMER:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals in, or assigned to, the above position and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required, and may be changed at the discretion of the Company.

 

Job Location -  New York, NY