This position could be located in CA.

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management and Insurance. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team!

Unlike traditional application development roles, this opportunity allows you to grow into and apply a new application development framework by applying modern application development techniques of combining React/Angular frameworks with Python and Spark, with data virtualization or memory mapping techniques on distributed compute clusters.

The opportunity

Join our audit innovation lab and you will work with our assurance teams and world-class clients to leverage leading edge technologies to find creative, technology driven solutions to our everyday client work, and where you will feel and see your impact.

As an Applications Systems Engineer, you’ll be joined by an entrepreneurial team of multidisciplinary professionals in role which focuses on the development of next-gen, cloud-based data platform that will enable the audit professionals, and data specialists in collecting, combining, and exploration of data to create insights that support our clients with their decision-making processes. You will improve our clients’ data integrity and quality to allow for more reliable reports and insights within the accounting, finance, governance and regulatory space and pursue automation in the process to create efficiencies.

This is the perfect role for you to get heavily involved from day one and help the practice grow. You can make an immediate impact doing great work exceeding client expectations. If you’re looking to achieve your career ambitions and explore/train in new technologies for continued growth, there are exciting opportunities for you and the team at EY.

Your key responsibilities

• Integrating emerging technologies to enhance audit service delivery quality, solving business/client challenges through technology.
• Building user-centered applications, combining business knowledge with technology experience to build automation and analytic solutions with a focus on the financial services industry.
• Performing full life-cycle software development using agile framework including delivery and integration with other systems and applications in a cloud-based environment.
• As a full-stack engineer, you will get to work on a wide range of new products changing the way engineers do research, share knowledge, design, and build new software
• Driving various stages of the development lifecycle, ensuring application/software architecture is aligned to stakeholder requirements.
• Creating and/or modifying application delivery process strategy based on industry trends, experience, leading practices, and direction of major players.
• Establishing strategy and business case for the integration of multiple applications.
• Lead the design of complex integration strategies and plans and the evaluation of complex system integration initiatives and advises on any necessary course corrections.
• Developing and maintain long-term business relationships and networks.

Skills and attributes for success
As we continue to build features and integrations within existing applications, our engineering team is hiring talented professionals to contribute to our innovative new data platform. We are hiring experienced and hands-on full stack-engineers who will work on frontend (React and Angular), middle layer logic, (Python) with backend cluster management (Spark).

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance or a related field

• Minimum of 3 years of the following experiences but will consider less years in experience for strong candidates.
• Experience in enterprise integration design patterns, microservices design and development, and middleware platforms including integrations, or application programming interface (API).
• Experience designing API centric solutions using at least one of the following: representational state transfer (REST), DevOps, Postman or SoapUI
• 1+ years of experience in software development in Python, preferably in conjunction with React.
• Experience developing schemas and data structures.
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary
• Access to reliable transportation to/from the EY office and client sites. A driver’s license is strongly recommended as ride share and public transportation options may not be available in all locations

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), including analysis, planning design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Experience converting business requirements into application and software design and managing the development lifecycle from configuration to deployment.
• Combination of experience with at least 3 of the following
  • Experience developing schemas and data structures.
  • Experience with source control
  • Hands-on experience using any API integration framework, such as MuleSoft, WSO2 or Apigee
  • Experience with Azure Pipelines (Cl/CD)
  • Experience in DevOps and cloud implementations.
  • Experience implementing security, such as OAuth, SAML (security assertion markup language), single sign-on (SSO), or mobile device management
  • Object oriented and functional software engineering using JavaScript, AngularJS, CSS, Python, React, Java, or similar.
  • Experience with back-end web technologies, frameworks and programming languages, such as SQL, RESTful API, JSON, Spark or model-view-controller (MVC).
  • Experience with various general and high-purpose programming languages, such as PowerShell, Python, C++, C#, Scala, Java, JavaScript, Hive, R, Ajax, or NoSQL technologies
• 3 years of experience in BI (Business Intelligence) technologies, such as Tableau, Spotfire or Microsoft Power BI
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of relevant education, training, or experience.

What we look for

• Accelerate your technical capabilities and transformative leadership skills with future-focused courses and development programs.

• Broaden your horizons by working on highly integrated teams across the globe and collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds – both professionally and culturally.
• Ability to learn and work on next-gen cloud-based technologies.
• Bring out the best in yourself with continuous investment in your personal well-being and career development.
• Develop your own personal purpose and help us create a positive ripple effect on our teams, our business, clients and society – building a better working world, together.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.