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Lead Software Engineer

Rockville, MD (Job Posting)💼 Full-time💰 $193,066–$193,066🗓 2026-06-23 → 2026-10-07

Core

Lead a team to oversee software product development, improve SDLC quality, and design industry-leading cloud and big data solutions for the financial regulatory sector.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Software Engineer (Cloud & Big Data)

Builds

Scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions and big data processing frameworks

Domain

Financial Services / Regulatory Technology / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud architecture design, Big Data technologies, SQL query optimization, Data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as code

Preferred skills

Agile project management, Technical mentorship, Strategic process improvement (via careerplan.io/jobs/R-010033-lead-software-engineer-at-finra)

Technologies

AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, EMR, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC), Apache Spark, Hadoop, Airflow, Step Functions, Glue, Jenkins, Jira, Terraform, CloudFormation

Responsibilities

Oversee software product development and SDLC quality; Manage software processes and projects to improve efficiency; Design and develop scalable cloud solutions; Implement environment management tools; Analyze development trends and communicate integration recommendations; Provide technical guidance to colleagues

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities