Software Developer Senior at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in Cleveland, Ohio

Job Description:

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is part of the nation’s central bank and we’ve provided many opportunities for professional growth during our history.

For twenty-five years in a row, we’ve been named “One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Places to Work” by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.

Our People Make the Difference! The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is seeking innovative thinkers with vision to build the framework that will carry the Bank into the future.

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To be considered for this role, candidates must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder and have resided in the U.S. for a minimum of three consecutive years.

This role is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a hybrid work arrangement - individuals may be required to work some days in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland while working the other days from home.

Software Developer Senior

Organizational Expectations:

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Treasury Services organization partners and supports the U.S. Treasury’s mission to expand the use of digital transactions across the Federal Government. The group provides strategic-level leadership, industry knowledge, and innovative thinking to assist with Treasury’s end goal of all-electronic payments and disbursements. As a part of this team, we embrace the challenge of consistently delivering exceptional work to benefit the Treasury, our organization, federal agencies, businesses, financial institutions and individuals.

As a software developer senior, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, maintenance, and support of software applications for customers across a variety of technology platforms and/or business lines. You will act as a project coordinator, coach, and mentor for staff when needed and provide production support for users of software while keeping abreast of current technologies to enhance applications architecture and software design and development.

General Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, and develop, debug, test, deploy, support and document highly complex application software with performance and scalability optimization.




• Analyze highly complex customer business needs and recommend and implement automated solutions to increase process automation, user experience, and launch of new products and services.




• Act as a liaison with developers, external, and/or internal, regarding highly complex system and environmental requirements and problem resolution.




• Provide ongoing highly complex technical support to customers, including support for migrations of software applications into various environments. Provide application and technical support during all phases of the application lifecycle. Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions.




• Incorporate relevant bank, system controls, SAFR, DLP, Privacy and audit requirements into solutions upon highly complex software implementation.




• Adhere to bank and system secure coding, contingency, deployment, and software development methodologies and standards.




• Demonstrate commitment to innovation, quality, schedules and budget. Continuous development and learning to keep abreast of application development technologies.




• Lead technology projects and develop project management artifacts and documentation.




• Coach and mentor programming staff.




• Depending on the business line, may provide rotational, third-tier, 24x7 on-call support. 




• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.




• Adheres to the Bank's attendance policies through regular and prompt attendance.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years of related work experience or




• Associate’s Degree with 7+ years of professional work experience or




• Software development Bootcamp certificate with 7+ years of professional work experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of development processes, practices, and tools, including Agile Scrum as well as work management tools like Jira.




• Ability to work collaboratively with others.




• Ability to analyze complex business requirements and processes and clearly communicate solution recommendations to stakeholders.




• Ability to perform independent research and resolve many technical roadblocks.




• Experience mentoring/teaching other developers.




• Strong understanding of Java/J2EE concepts, object-oriented design, and development.




• Advanced technical skills in Java, Spring, Angular, and Oracle SQL.




• Experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions.




• Experience in AWS Services such as ECS, Fargate, RDS, Lambda, S3, Amazon MQ.




• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code such as GitLab pipelines.




• Experience with JUnit, JBehave and / or Cucumber testing frameworks.

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions            

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time. 

Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions.  If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.  

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Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to clev.4d.benefits.specialist@clev.frb.org.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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