The Finance Technology group at Millennium works closely with various business units and stakeholders to deliver critical business systems. The team’s responsibilities include portfolio accounting technology, corporate accounting technology, tax reporting, partnership accounting, and various other business systems.

The right candidate will have great interpersonal skills and a willingness to go above and beyond when collaborating with product management and fellow engineers. Candidates should have experience with Python and a variety of integration technologies such as Kafka and Rest API’s. Significant domain experience is a big plus including broad financial product exposure, fund account technology experience, and back office experience.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Finance, Middle office and operations team to understand business requirements, technical requests and data needs.
• Build integration components to communicate with streaming platforms and distributed systems
• Provide users access to datasets by building and enhancing REST APIs running in containerized environment
• Develop data architecture components for centralizing data definitions with data governance and stakeholders
• Implement distributed workflows and processes to coordinate complex business processes across systems
• Participate in sprint planning. Work with other team members to meet sprint goals across development teams
• Support what you build. Integrate testing automation at all levels. Have a DevOps mindset.

Qualifications/Skills Required

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with Python and/or other object-oriented programming languages.
• Database development experience.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience building, debugging and supporting distributed systems. Rest and/or event-based systems.
• Positive individual with strong communication skills; able to interface with business users and other development teams.
• Self-driven individual with ability to multi-task & work under pressure.

Other Qualifications:

• Comfortable working in an iterative manner within a cross functional team
• Excellent listening and communication (both oral and written) skills
• Self-starter and critical thinker, takes ownership of own applications and makes improvement suggestions for the entire platform
• Proactive, assertive and attentive to details but also knows when to reach out to team members for help
• Excellent time-management and problem-solving skills

Desirable skills/experience:

• UI Development Experience (Angular, React, or other JavaScript based frameworks)
• Understanding of cloud native development and architectures
• AWS Experience
• Docker experience
• Knowledge in accounting of different products