T Rowe Price

There is a place for you at T. Rowe Price to grow, contribute, learn, and make a difference.  We are a premier asset manager focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on today and in the future. The work we do matters. We invite you to explore the opportunity to join us and grow your career with us.

Overview

Engineers in the Individual Investors group at T. Rowe Price are playing a key role in helping build the future of financial services, working hand-in-hand with business partners to build client experiences that are changing the way people invest. We want technologists with a new perspective who are passionate about solving business, data and technical challenges. You will build groundbreaking, next-generation applications for n-tier cloud architectures. You’ll be involved, hands-on, through the entire development cycle. And you’ll redefine the way our traders, portfolio managers and analysts serve our clients.

We are working to develop the firm's next generation data distribution platform, with the aim to seamlessly deliver real-time and on-demand investments data to a global network of distributed trading and research platforms. We are employing new paradigms such as cloud computing, lightweight microservices, and distributed and non-relational databases to deliver elastically scalable, globally distributed and highly resilient software services.

This is a hands-on, full development lifecycle role which provides an opportunity to tackle sophisticated business, logic, data and technical challenges. As the leader of your engineering team, you will be required to think creatively and bring ground breaking technology in-house. We will expect you to be agile / to lead / to think outside the box. In return, we’ll give you challenging work that has an impact / opportunities to learn and grow / and a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to bring their point of view to the table—because that’s how we help our clients succeed. Are you a leader who can provide direction through large teams of professionals and through other managers? Are you able to work with executives to build and execute on key business priorities? Do you strive bring both a near and long-term perspective to your decisions? If so, we encourage you to apply!

Role summary and job responsibilities

• Manages a development team to deliver projects which achieve target outcomes
• You'll demonstrates exceptional hands-on capability to drive components to delivery
• Apply people management skills to coach, mentor and develop engineers on the team
• You'll assume ownership over the quality, TCO, maintainability and security of the solutions built by our team
• Help design specific elements of the GTS Technical strategy and drive its execution within your domain of responsibility.
• You'll identify non-obvious relationships and anomalies often overlooked by others
• Balance strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems
• You'll seek to detects and overcome issues before the broader team is aware of them
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to individuals and teams using data to reinforce learning
• You'll be accountable for the developing and mentoring of direct reports
• Responsible for recruitment and performance management of associates
• Overcome differences of opinion and drive team alignment around a specific goal or solution
• Owns technical debt across their development team

Business knowledge

• You demonstrate a deep knowledge of products/flows within supported businesses
• Articulate broader business concerns and/or regulatory landscape, including key risks and controls (e.g., GDPR, MIFID, SOX)
• You make decisions that are cognizant of the firm’s broader business strategy

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or another related discipline and 10+ years of progressive Object Oriented development experience (Java preferred)
• Experience building containerized applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or similar providers.
• Experience with automated delivery pipelines, agile delivery and test-driven development
• In-depth experience with server-side frameworks such as Spring Boot and Tomcat
• In-depth knowledge of software design patterns
• In-depth RDBMS development experience (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Solid understanding of Spark, Redshift, Apache Ni-Fi helpful
• Solid understanding of cloud native architectures (AWS, etc.) for containerized microservices
• Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced, Agile team environment 
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and senior business leaders
• Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views
• Passion for learning & results oriented
• A solid understanding of financial markets and instruments is a plus
• Current with many best-of-breed technologies
• Shows a commitment to quality by implementing suitable software using unit/integration and acceptance testing at the time of feature development
• Debugs large components with limited assistance and assists other engineers with debugging
• At some levels, leads code reviews and actively participates in providing feedback on others’ designs/code
• Performs as a specialist in one or more parts of the software lifecycle (e.g., coding, testing, deployment). Coordinates significant pieces of development within the development lifecycle
• Designs and develops practical APIs and abstractions.
• Owns technical debt in their own software

FINRA Requirements

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility

This role is eligible for remote work up to three days a week.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

We strive for equity, equality, and opportunity for all associates. When we embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work, our firm is stronger, and we create greater value for our clients. Our commitment and inclusive programming aim to lift the experience for each associate and builds allies for our global associate community. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at the firm, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.

Benefits: We invest in our people through a wide range of programs and benefits, including:

• Competitive pay and bonuses as well as a generous retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan with matching contributions
• Flexible and remote work opportunities
• Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness programs (fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program)

Our policies may change as our working lives evolve. Yet, our commitment to supporting our associates’ well-being and addressing the needs of our clients, business, and communities is unwavering.

T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.