Senior Software Engineer, Fixed term for 12 months

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident.

We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity. Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you.

The Central Data Office team at T. Rowe Price is playing a key role in helping build the firm’s next generation platform, working together with business partners to create client experiences that are changing the way people invest. You will work with smart, talented people across our business. We will expect you to be agile and innovate. In return, we will give you challenging work that makes an impact and brings opportunities to learn and grow, and a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to express their point of view—because that is how we help our clients succeed.

You will be a hands-on engineer in a new engineering team in the Analytics and Data Platform group, responsible for architecting and building out brand new data integration.

You will be responsible for:

• Practicing disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing beautiful, pragmatic code)
• Coding in Java and Python
• Building out a brand new data management tool to support our business and operational users, working closely with the rest of the Data and Analytics platform
• Unit testing, integration testing
• Contributing to maintaining and constantly improving the CI/CD pipeline
• Code reviews, design reviews
• Code instrumentation, setting up proactive monitoring dashboards
• Liaising with users and subject matter experts in order to gather requirements, analyse solutions and triage feedback and incidents
• Understanding business requirements and translating them into technical requirements

Required skills and expertise:

• Expert Java programming
• Experience in Python as a second programming language
• SQL
• Experience in implementing REST API
• Familiarity with AWS

Preferred experience/skills:

• An understanding of the asset management business and/or financial markets
• Experience with Iceberg, Snowflake is a bonus
• Experience of gRPC
• Experience of working in a Scrum team

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At T. Rowe Price, our associates are our greatest asset. We thrive because our company culture is built on inclusion and because we sustain a work environment where associates can bring their best selves to work every day. The backgrounds, talents, and experiences of our global associates allow us to embrace new ideas and perspectives that move our business priorities forward and enable us to deliver strong client outcomes. Here, you can expect equal opportunity and fair and consistent treatment for all.

T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, colour, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.

About Us: T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on–now, and over the long term.