Feature Lead - Technology - GenAI Platform

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• Job Description:
• This job is responsible for providing leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the job are to provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, align technical solutions to business objectives, and ensure that coding practices/quality comply with software development standards. Job expectations include conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in knowledge of several technical competencies.

Job Profile Summary:

Generative AI (GenAI) presents an exciting opportunity to derive valuable insights from data and drive revenue growth, efficiencies, and improved business processes. Technology will collaborate with Global Markets Sales & Trading, Quantitative Strategies & Data Group (QSDG) & Platform teams to the design and buildout its global GenAI platform.

Platform will cater to a rapidly growing number of use cases that harness the power of GenAI, leveraging both proprietary and open-source Large Language Models, and large structured and un structured data sets to provide insights to Global Markets Sales & Trading, QSDG, Research, and Operations.

We are seeking a Feature Lead to provide leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team responsible for the implementation of GM's new GenAI platform. In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate business use cases into the platform while ensuring these solutions are reusable, scalable and sustainable.

Hands-on engagement in the full software lifecycle activities is expected. This includes requirements analysis, architecture design, coding, testing, and deployment. You will be responsible for driving projects forward, mentor junior team members, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery

Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality

Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt

Guides the team on work breakdown and execution

Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria

Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team

Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)

Develops and trouble-shoots high-performance APIs using FastAPI and Python.

Implements distributed caching mechanisms, containerization and message queues for scalable systems.

Ensures CI/CD pipelines are in place for automated testing and deployment.

Design, develop, and is accountable for feature delivery of the end-to-end platform implementation and related business use cases

Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle

Establish standards and lead the charge on automation for end-to-end SDLC efficiency

Implement hardware upgrade & software enhancement to meet global performance expectations

Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt

Guides the team on work breakdown and execution

Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria

Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team

Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)

Required Qualifications:

Experience in designing & implementing multi-tier (including microservices) application platforms

High coding proficiency in Python and Unix scripting

In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB), and large structured & unstructured dataset processing

Knowledge in full range of front-end languages, libraries & frameworks (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, React, jQuery)

Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with various stakeholders

Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential

Desired Qualifications:

Experience implementing data analytics / AI solutions

Knowledge of machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch, LLM fine-tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and tools for agentic solutions

Skills:

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

Risk Management

Solution Delivery Process

Solution Design

High-performance API Development

Asynchronous Programming

High-performance API Development

Asynchronous Programming

Distributed Caching (e.g., Redis)

Message Queues

CI/CD Pipelines

OpenTelemetry

Authentication and Authorization Mechanisms

Minimum Education Requirement - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$106,500.00 - $173,700.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.