Sr. Technical Lead
Description
Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. As your tech partner, we help engineer your company’s future with cloud and data. For more information, visit www.ness.com
We are problem-solvers, architects, strategists, implementors, and lifelong learners. We collaborate with each other and with our clients to help them meet their short- and long-term technology goals. Our culture is open, transparent, challenging, and fun.
We hire smart, self-starters who thrive in an open-ended environment to figure out what needs to be done and take ownership in delivering quality results
Job Title: Senior Technical Lead
Location: WTC - NYC (Hybrid – 4 Days Onsite)
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Lead with a strong background in both low-code platforms and traditional server-side development. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, strong domain knowledge in asset and trade allocation processes, and leadership experience to guide the development of scalable, high-performance solutions. This is a hybrid role based out of our World Trade Center office in NYC, requiring 4 days per week onsite and 1 remote day.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead technical design, architecture, and implementation of solutions across platforms including Mendix, Java/Python, and SQL.
- Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into robust, scalable designs.
- Drive the modernization and migration/refactoring of legacy systems to modern architectures and frameworks.
- Ensure optimal use of multi-threading and concurrency techniques to deliver high-performance server-side applications.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, performing code reviews and enforcing best practices.
- Design and optimize data models and queries for asset allocation and trade execution workflows.
- Maintain strong alignment with business needs and compliance requirements in a fast-paced financial services environment.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience.
- Proficiency in:
- No-Code/Low-Code platforms, particularly Mendix.
- Java and/or Python for backend/server-side development.
- SQL and relational database design/performance tuning.
- Experience designing and implementing solutions using multi-threading and concurrency.
- Strong knowledge of application migration, modernization, and codebase refactoring.
- Deep domain knowledge in asset allocation, trade allocation rules, and execution processes.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working in agile environments with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps integration.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Familiarity with message queues, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
Why Ness
We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.
You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression. At Ness, we treat our values of rigor, innovation, and partnership with the highest priority, and they are placed at the very core of our business — to guide us through our daily operations and interactions with our customers.
We offer our employees exciting and challenging projects across a diverse range of industries, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with a group of forward-thinking, capable partners around the globe.
Discover Ness Digital Engineering by visiting our website www.ness.com
Salary Range: 150K - 170K
* Salary will purely depend on experience, skill fitment and other factors.