Job Type: Contract

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Role – Mendix Senior Technical Lead
Location – NYC, NY
Contract

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Lead with a strong background in both low-code platforms and traditional server-side development. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, strong domain knowledge in asset and trade allocation processes, and leadership experience to guide the development of scalable, high-performance solutions. This is a hybrid role based out of our World Trade Center office in NYC, requiring 4 days per week onsite and 1 remote day.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design, architecture, and implementation of solutions across platforms including Mendix, Java/Python, and SQL.
• Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into robust, scalable designs.
• Drive the modernization and migration/refactoring of legacy systems to modern architectures and frameworks.
• Ensure optimal use of multi-threading and concurrency techniques to deliver high-performance server-side applications.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, performing code reviews and enforcing best practices.
• Design and optimize data models and queries for asset allocation and trade execution workflows.
• Maintain strong alignment with business needs and compliance requirements in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience.
• Proficiency in:
• No-Code/Low-Code platforms, particularly Mendix.
• Java and/or Python for backend/server-side development.
• SQL and relational database design/performance tuning.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions using multi-threading and concurrency.
• Strong knowledge of application migration, modernization, and codebase refactoring.
• Deep domain knowledge in asset allocation, trade allocation rules, and execution processes.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working in agile environments with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps integration.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with message queues, event-driven architectures, and microservices.

Required Skills