Senior Associate, Enterprise Architecture
Dallas, TX 
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Posted 20 days ago
Job Description

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures, and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education.

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely.

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

What you'll do

2-3 sentences describing the overall responsibilities.

Primary focus of the role is to provide technical design/architecture, and architectural analysis/support for business projects and technology initiatives for the purpose of enabling business and technical capabilities that conform to OCC Enterprise reference architectures/roadmaps.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

  • Responsible for the design and architecture of the systems to meet functional requirements. Should also meet non-functional requirements that include - quality, security, reliability, scalability (up and out), extensibility, testability, supportability, fault tolerance and disaster recovery.

  • Defines technical solutions for the given initiative that consider the current state environment, architecture, and constraints. Analyzes the viability of the architecture/design to meet the timeline, budget, and quality.

  • Collaborates with business users, design, development, and QA teams to help identify and develop creative solutions for complex technical requirements and processes. Adheres to overall reference architecture.

  • Develops the artifacts - architecture design document, architecture decision document, product selection criteria and proof of concept document, and other required documents as defined by SDLC.

  • Collaborates with other architect(s) in establishing various architecture and development related standards, and work with management to enforce their governance.

  • Research and evaluate vendors/technologies to identify appropriate technology for OCC's strategic direction, including conducting pilot or product selection efforts; prepare written reports of findings and recommend implementation and rollout approaches to the organization.

  • Provides critical thinking and technical expertise from ideation to implementation.

  • Develops and presents solution alternatives along with recommendations to management.

  • Actively works with management to define processes/procedures/job aids when new tools/technologies are introduced.

  • Perform other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

  • [Required] Knowledge of AWS cloud cost data analysis and AWS Serverless using Lambda.

  • [Required] Experience in identifying opportunities to reduce cloud costs and make corresponding recommendations for efficient usage of cloud resources.

  • [Required] Experience in cloud technologies such as Amazon S3, Route 53, ASG, VPC, SNS, and Amazon API Gateway.

  • [Required] Experience with a variety of technologies and architectures - SQL, DynamoDB, RDS, Data Visualization.

  • [Required] Knowledge of systems and development techniques, database systems/structures, technology tools/products.

  • [Required] Experience with program/projects involving complex integration of disparate types of technologies/platforms and data.

  • [Required] Experience with different architecture/design techniques - object oriented, structured, component based and corresponding tools.

  • [Required] Knowledge of the governance of architecture standards, patterns, and best practices.

  • [Required] Highly motivated individual with a strong sense of ownership of their work/projects.

  • [Required] Strong desire and capacity to adapt to new technologies.

  • [Required] An enquiring mind with the ability to abstract general principles from specifics.

  • [Required] Highly collaborative - comfortable sharing ideas and asking questions with all levels of staff.

  • [Required] Demonstrates refined written and verbal communication skills, fosters open communications, listens effectively, and builds strong partnership networks that result in consistent forward momentum; has excellent negotiation skills with an ability to orchestrate change through influence.

  • [Required] Possesses a logical mindset and is skilled at solving challenges in a directed, methodical manner, analyzing the current issue to envision creative solutions.

  • [Required] Takes initiative to complete critical tasks, especially in team settings with dependencies on other people.

  • [Required] Collaborates and openly seeks and shares information across teams and departments.

  • [Required] Has a solid background in his or her field and continually augments experience and skills with the latest research results and techniques

Technical Skills:

  • [Required] Experience with cloud architectures.

  • [Required] Experience with SQL databases.

  • [Required] Experience with AWS cloud cost data and opportunities to reduce costs.

  • [Required] Experience with Cloud based solution design.

Education and/or Experience:

  • [Required] Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Economics or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

  • [Required] 2-5 years of diverse work experience in Information Technology with exposure to Financial Services Industry - Options/Clearing preferred.

  • [Required] 2 Years of assisting architecture

Certificates or Licenses:

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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Step 3
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
2 to 5 years
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