Senior Software Engineer

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This role will be a key contributor to the design and implementation of back end and front-end solutions primarily working on existing C#.NET projects relating to analytical ratings processes that have high visibility within the analyst teams globally. In addition to that, there will be many opportunities to leverage SQL skills to query and manipulate data at scale, as well as work with Python. She/he will ensure overall execution of enterprise grade application. She/he will be responsible for developing, deploying, operating, and monitoring containerized applications on container platforms in clouds a, supporting a wide variety of technologies across Moody’s Investor Services.

Job Function and Responsibilities

* Responsible for designing, coding, enhancing and testing of financial software applications to meet business process requirements in MIS Tech, primarily using .NET/C# related tech stack
* Exhibit good problem solving and analytical skills in designing/developing solutions for business requirements
* Contribute to ongoing feature development of web applications based on service-oriented architecture, involving UI, Services and databases
* Work with the development team leads/architects on technical/architectural direction of projects and collaborate with business analysts, developers, and QA analysts (both in-house and vendor) while being fully responsible for development deliverables
* Evaluating functional requirements for new requests, estimating effort involved in designing/developing solutions
* Work with cross functional, globally dispersed development teams to support development efforts to meet business requirements.
* Complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance of software applications
* Participate in design, architecture and code reviews and encourage collaborative development environment across team members by sharing feedback
* Working in Agile environment, estimating effort and tracking progress towards key deliverables
* Handling Production Support of applications by leading the team to solve Production Incidents, root cause analysis, code defect fixes, data analysis, troubleshooting etc.
* Passionate about learning new technologies and align towards organization engineering needs.

Qualifications

* Bachelor’s in Engineering/Computer science
* 7-9 years of total software development experience
* 7+ years Hands-on experience in design, development, testing and operational support of .NET, C#, SOAP/REST, SQL, HTML/CSS and Java Script based applications
* Experience with working with Business Partners to understand the business processes, requirements and drive the design/development of solutions with application Dev Teams
* Good Understanding of Object-Oriented design and development
* Experience in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with understanding of Web Services (REST and SOAP)
* Experience with.NET framework and software design/architecture and familiarity with the ASP.NET framework
* Agile Scrum experience., while displaying familiarity/experience with other SDLC approaches
* Good SQL and database knowledge
* Knowledge of build/dependency management tools such as Maven and SCM tools like Subversion, Bit Bucket, GitHub etc.
* Experience with Microservices and design patterns and familiarity with other programming languages like Java is added advantage
* Experience in application containerization, familiar with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Platform9, ECS, EKS, Openshift, Cloud Foundry
* Exposure to any cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and exposure to services (or their equivalent ones) like API Gateway, IAM, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS, ECS etc.
* Excellent communication and inter-personal skills

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.