Principal, Infrastructure Architecture

About Us
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures, and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com .
What We Offer
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
Student Loan Repayment Assistance
Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
Generous PTO and Parental leave
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
Summary
OTSI (Office of Technology Strategy & Innovation) is OCC's technology strategy, research, and development team. The team focuses on architectural design, problem solving, and security using cutting edge technologies to deliver solutions for the organization as part of the OCC Unified Technology Strategy.
As a Principal Infrastructure Architect, you will be part of a small Innovation team of Architects that will collaborate with development teams, Solutions Architects, vendors, and other stakeholders to define and drive architectural vision, implementation and continuous improvement of solutions running on OCC's core real-time data streaming and compute infrastructure platforms such Kafka, Flink and K8s in a Hybrid Environment.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, create and review software application architectures specifically tailored for streaming use cases.
• Ensure fault tolerance, scalability, and low-latency processing in streaming applications.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to define deployment strategies and manage scalability.
• Drive optimization of streaming application performance by fine-tuning configurations, monitoring resource utilization, and identifying bottlenecks.
• Drive Implementation of best practices for efficient data serialization, compression, and network communication.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, including system diagrams, data flow, and component interactions.
• Maintain vendor relationships and participate in escalation sessions and postmortems
• Evaluate and recommend tools and frameworks that enhance the performance and reliability of our streaming systems.
• Stay informed about industry trends related to Kafka, Flink, and Kubernetes.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] Effective communication skills to effectively collaborate and evangelize best practices with technical stakeholders.
• [Required] Advanced problem-solving skills and logical approach to solving problems
• [Required] Ability to execute spikes and provide code samples demonstrating best practices when developing solutions on Kafka and Flink.
• [Required] Experience with DevOps tools, e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.

Technical Skills:

• Expert level knowledge of Kafka
• Expert level knowledge of Flink
• In depth knowledge of on-premises networking as well as the hybrid connectivity to AWS and/or Azure
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), compute, storage, database, network, content distribution, security/IAM, microservices, management, and serverless services
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

Education and/or Experience:

• [Preferred] Bachelor's or Master's degree in an engineering discipline
• [Required] 10+ years of experience architecting of mission critical Cloud and On-Prem real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures
• [Required] 10+ years of experience with Java
• [Required] 5+ years of specific Kafka and Flink experience
• [Preferred] 5+ years of Kubernetes experience

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Preferred] Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
• [Preferred] AWS certifications (e.g Solutions Architect Associate)
• [Preferred] Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location.
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer