• Design solutions that are fit for purpose, scalable and evolvable.

• As needed work through all aspects of solutioning from requirements, design, and build through deployment and evolution.

• Occasionally you may be asked to augment critical projects through direct involvement and hands-on contributions such as prototyping and developing critical modules.

• Translates business requirements into working foundational components for platform thus ensuring functional and non-functional aspects are met.

• Defines strategic direction and develops tactical plans. Works with application and infrastructure teams to provision platform components.

• Effectively identifies opportunities for change, implements change and introduces new concepts, procedures, policies and tools while providing a clear explanation of benefits and purpose.

• Involved in working with business stakeholders, cross functional teams and leading by example to other application development groups.

• Documenting architectural standards, best practices and mentoring application teams on developing highly distributed, resilient and responsive applications.

• Expert knowledge/experience in the following strongly preferred:

• Full-stack solution design and implementation

• Designing and implementing high performance enterprise scale distributed systems.

• Distributed Caching patterns and topologies

• Loosely coupled, event-driven architectures

• RDBMS Data modeling and optimization

• Profiling and performance optimization - threading, memory management, JVM optimization etc.

• Working in an Agile, Continuous Integration/Delivery environment

• Experience building and implementing solutions for Containerized environments

• Designing and building Low Latency applications

• Microservices architecture including defining application boundaries

• Java, Spring, Spring Boot, ORMs, APIs, Messaging

• .NET experience (nice to have)

• NoSQL models and when to use them

• Modern DevOps practices

• Test-driven development

• Domain modelling and Design / Integration patterns

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Industry knowledge - Financial Industry (Capital Markets, Wealth Management) background preferred

• 12 yr of overall experience

• Java 10 yr

• Full-stack systems design and development –10 yr

• Microservices - 3 yr

• Event-based systems – 3 yr

• Hands-on Kafka experience

• Expert in solutioning on-prem and knowledgeable in cloud-native solutions

• Minimum of a B.S. in Computer Science, MIS or related degree and five (5) years of related experience or a combination of education, training and experience as approved by Human Resources.

• AWS Solutions Architect preferred.

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.