Engineer Lead, Software

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

Current and future sponsorship are not available for this position

About the team

Our Auto Finance team provides development, production, client experience and operational support to several Automotive lending clients. Over the next several years, we will be transitioning from a mainframe-based Auto Finance lending application to a server-based Asset Finance lending application.

What you will be doing

As a Software Engineer Lead, you’ll work on a team providing production infrastructure & on call support and application defect & enhancement support for our Auto Finance lending application. This will include working closely with our client teams where appropriate.

• Provides application software development services or technical support typically in a defined project.
• Develops program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications.
• Codes, tests, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications.
• Maintains, tests and integrates application components.
• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code
• Demonstrates an understanding of FIS systems and the financial services industry.
• Analyzes requirements and translates business requirements into product designs.
• Writes technical specifications and other forms of documentation.
• Suggests technical alternatives and improves/streamlines processes and systems.
• Conducts planning, analysis and forecasting activities to plan projects and tasks.
• May participate in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation and buy vs. build recommendations.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
• 10+ years of demonstrated applications development experience with many projects as the application development system designer or technical lead.
• Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles, i.e., waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development.
• Excellent customer service skills that build high levels of customer satisfaction for internal and external customers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors.
• Willingly shares relevant technical and/or industry knowledge and expertise to other resources.
• Excellent problem-solving, team and time management skills
• Is resourceful and proactive in gathering information and sharing ideas.
• Proficiency in COBOL programming and working within a mainframe environment.

Bonus if you have

• Experience with FIS Auto Finance, GN architecture or other Systematics applications.
• Willingness to eventually transition to a C#/.NET server based Asset Finance application.
• Knowledge of C# & .NET

What we offer you

• Flexible and creative work environment

• Competitive salary and benefits