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Technical Engineering Lead - ICS, Loan IQ (Softwar

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Location: Wilmington, DE
Salary: $80.00 USD Hourly - $95.00 USD Hourly
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Technical Engineering Lead - ICS, Loan IQ (Softwar

This role serves as a principal systems designer for major application modifications using technical skills and available technologies in the evaluation of client requirements.

Engineering leads are accountable for the entire lifecycle of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) business applications (in this case, for existing Loan IQ platform), and it's interfacing custom built solutions - including design, build, and operations. This is a hands-on systems engineering and execution role accountable for application and test-hardness code, while ensuring compliance with corporate and regulatory policies.

Primary Responsibilities:

Development Execution: Technical guidance to a team of 5-8 engineers. Lead and contribute to technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Review key technical development execution stats and implement continuous improvements. Complete and oversee basic to complex systems analysis, design and development. Play a key role as an engineering lead on complex projects. Maintain an excellent functional understanding of the supported application(s).

System Reliability: Ensure reliable technology solutions through effective systems engineering, design, resilient coding, release management, change control, and incident problem-solving. Use CAP theory (Capacity, Availability, Partition Tolerance) to weigh the trade-offs for all high reliability and shared technology components. Maintain efficient operation and effectiveness of supported applications.

Technical Architecture and Design: Engineer the solutions to service entire loan portfolios, from complex syndicated lending to simple bilateral loans. Author systems architecture documentation, technical specifications, and technical tasks aligned to user stories, with traceability to concrete technical components. Create developer-friendly documentation that is founded in architecture components, well defined, and easily traced from high to low level detail. Maintain accurate systems data as part of enterprise-wide technology tracking tools. Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among programs, interfacing applications and platforms. Provide highly analytical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies to assist business units in meeting strategic objectives.

LoanIQ Software Lifecycle Management: Own the LoanIQ technical solution, including software and server patches, license management, upgrades, module installation, troubleshooting, and interfacing with Finastra technical support

Code and Test Harness Management: Create custom code, specifically integrations around Finastra's Loan IQ platform. Maintain knowledge of DevOps utilities and test harnesses, perform code reviews, and oversee code merge and elevation.

Team Collaboration: Effective formal and informal communication with stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and technology teams. Direct and monitor less experienced resources and coordinate development tasks on small to large scope projects. This role requires a significant collaboration with multiple team members and stakeholders.

Innovation: Recommend new technologies, policies, or processes. Evaluate vendor software.

Compliance: Adhere to internal control standards and address audit points and regulatory issues. Escalate risk-related concerns to management as needed.

Education and Experience (Required):

Degree: Minimum of an Associate's degree and 7 years' systems analysis/application development experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years' higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 7 years' systems analysis/application development experience.

Subject Matter Expertise: Expert level knowledge of Finastra's Loan IQ modules, including data model, workflows, business rules, reporting, and integrations.

Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience with full stack software engineering, object-oriented languages (preferably C# in .NET), front-end Javascript/HTML frameworks (preferably Angular), data access technologies (preferably Entity Framework and SQL), software packaging tools (preferably NuGet and NPM), source code management tools (preferably Gitlab). Some experience with SIEM tools (preferably Splunk) and log management platforms (preferably ELK). Advanced knowledge and focus of the entire system to work on projects outside of normal business-as-usual (BAU). Has operated in an Agile environment (preferably SAFe), collaborates effectively within iterative development cycles and scaled agile practices.

DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, YAML, some DevOps toolsets (Git, GitLab, Artifactory, NuGet, NPM, NodeJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, MS Build, or SonarQube), some scripting experience (YAML, PowerShell, Linux/Bash, or Perl).

Financial Technology Systems: Experience with client management, core banking, payments, financial reporting, loan or debt management solutions.

Vendor Management: Experience with COTS business application vendors and IT vendors, particularly Finastra's Loan IQ

Soft Skills: Technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, time-management, cross-functional team coordination, and technical mentorship.

Education and Experience Preferred:

Tools: Jira, Confluence.

Financial Industry Experience: Institutional Financial Products (Corporate Trust Accounts, Investment Funds, Bonds, Structured Finance, Collateralized Loan Obligations, etc.), preferably Syndicated Loans

Low-Code Platform-as-a-Service Knowledge: Experience and/or willingness to learn and build applications in a low-code environment, specifically Appian.

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