Vice President – Senior Principal Engineer

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow's challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.   

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

Senior Principal Engineer
We are looking for an exceptional technologist to join our Technology team. The candidate will be involved in building complex next-generation software and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the technology vision of the firm and guide the transformation across verticals

• Create and review architectural decisions of products

• Own and drive technology innovation in the firm

• Engage actively with the tech community via blogs, knowledge-sharing sessions, and other mediums to increase employee knowledge and skills to support future growth

• Establish policies, tenets, and processes that help guide the transformation

• Lead by example by building frameworks, and libraries that help accelerate the transformation across the firm

• Contribute to Artifact Repository - It includes ideas, designs, frameworks, policies, processes, and so on

• Lead the group to build sophisticated products using a cutting-edge technology stack, that is highly available, scalable, and reliable on a cloud platform

• Provide visible leadership for the unit within the technology community

• Mentor Senior Engineers across the firm by providing guidance and coaching

What You'll Need

• A bachelor's degree in Engineering with 14+ years of experience in IT industry

• Deep understanding in one of the programming languages

• Good understanding of architectural principles & patterns

• Exposure to any of the prominent cloud service providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Experience in preparing business proposals with benefits and driver, financial merits

• Hands-on experience with the evaluation of open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools with rapid prototyping

• Penchant to explore and learn new technologies

• Strong bias towards engineering and operational excellence

• Experience and knowledge of delivering products with low/no touch support along with SRE principles

• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving scalability challenges for existing apps

• Experience guiding/mentoring highly skilled engineers

• Ability to oversee multiple technology initiatives and engagements concurrently

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Excellent leadership and motivational skills

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.