The Team
Morningstars structured credit research and ratings subsidiary (Credit Ratings) is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organization (NRSRO) that has earned a reputation for innovation and excellence in the structured finance market. This group aims to increase market transparency and provides the highest quality ratings through securities research, monitoring services, data, and technology solutions.
The Role
The Lead Software Engineer will work closely with cross functional teams, QA teams and other development teams to ensure a timely and high-quality delivery. Will have to coordinate and work with the members in a global team in an Agile way. We are looking for an individual that can apply discipline, create solid software products and be accountable for deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Create, develop, and maintain the software code base of Credit Ratings products working in an agile environment.
- Lead the team of engineers
- Analyses and reviews system requirements. Use requirement and other design documents to gain overall understanding of the functionality of the new or enhanced application.
- Actively participate in the build phases, to aim at producing high quality deliverables.
- Actively participate & provide recommendations on product and environment improvements.
Requirements
- A minimum of 8 years experience working as a software developer with Web Services, MVC, REST/SOAP API with 8 -12 years total programming experience.
- Experience with the front-end development using Javascript (Angular/vue js/react js etc.) is required
- Experience with the backend logic development using node js is required
- Experience with Windows Applications (C#, ASP.NET, .net core) or Java applications (J2EE, Spring, Hibernate) is required,
- Experience with Python application development (Web/ML) is required
- Experience with database is must (Oracle/SQL Server / MySQL / PostGresSQL etc.)
- Experience with distributed computing with cloud computing is a plus (Amazon Web Services platform and associated technologies)
- Experience of Elastic Search using Cloud services using AWS & Associated Technologies is plus
- Should have sound knowledge of unit testing & the application deployment
- Should have sound knowledge of component designing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal, problem solving & decision-making skills
- Drive continuous improvement, delivering initiatives to improve performance, processes, and controls to support applications
- Contribute to planning of application/infrastructure releases and configuration changes
- Source Control, preferably Git
Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.