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Ally Financial Careers

General information

Career area
Technology
Work Location(s)
500 Woodward Avenue, MI, 601 S. Tryon Street, NC
Remote?
No
Ref #
17507
Posted Date
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Working time
Full time

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that’s worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We’re always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

We are seeking an experienced Principal - Software Engineer to join the Ally Compliance Technology team. This is a key role providing technical guidance to the team and leadership within an Agile development squad by collaborating with offshore team and other onsite team members.

In this role, you will have the exciting opportunity to sustain a vital financial crimes application and will drive technical solutions for the enterprise-wide financial crimes platform. You will provide substantial contributions in the design, coding, testing, support, and debugging of new software and enhancements to the existing platform, using your technical knowledge, creativity, and experience to deliver solutions to complex problems. You will be a technical specialist for the team and a mentor for junior team members and will review other team member deliverables.

The Work Itself

  • Sustain an enterprise-wide financial crimes platform and execute/maintain runbooks and continuous integration deployment pipelines
  • Design, code, review, test, debug document, and support compliance applications and tools consistent with established specifications and business requirements; write clean, reusable, scalable, and secure code for deployment adhering to standard methodologies 
  • Develop and ensure compliance with architecture principles and standards for the various systems and components based on design patterns, development standards, and best practices
  • Lead overall project development, production support, and maintenance activities; instill solid focus and standard methodologies for creation and maintenance of high-quality work
  • Prepare and update necessary documentation for deliverables and assist in developing and maintaining system documentation 
  • Drive continuous improvement through coaching, pair programming, code review processes, and team discussions
  • Work closely with the scrum master and other members of the wider team to plan and develop the integration components
  • Identify and unblock technical risks; breakdown and estimate technical tasks and recommend implementation approach for team; ensure stories contain the right balance of technical direction, standard methodologies, and level of detail
  • Work in an advisory capacity to identify key technical business problems, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make recommendations
  • Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution relating to current applications, providing assistance to the internal or external teams

The Skills You Bring

Required:
  • 5+ years of strong, hands-on enterprise software development experience with Java technologies and Rest API, data exchange (JSON, XML), SQL server / Oracle DB; ability to write clean, quality, and testable applications that support rapid delivery via continuous integration, delivery, and automated deployments
  • 2+ years of experience in AWS including Ec2, S3, RDS, ELB, IAM, Cloud Front and Cloud Watch and working experience with AWS Cloud technologies and using Dev Ops (CI/CD) pipeline in enterprise development environments and tools including - GitLab, Jenkins, JIRA/Confluence, SonarQube, Checkmarx, NexusIQ
  • Familiar with authoring Terraform configuration files
  • Familiar with API debugging tools, (e.g., Postman, Fiddler)
  • Knowledge of standard change management tools and processes, code branching/merging/commit strategies, feature branches, and trunk-based development
  • Extensive experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle
Preferred:
  • 2+ years in a technical lead role working in Agile scrum-based development model and sustaining complex applications, highly preferred
  • Working experience in Investment Banking / Financial services
  • Familiar with monitoring / tracing tooling
  • Experience supporting compliance applications for Fraud and AML
  • Experience with SAS technologies
  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related 
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How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:

  • Time Away: 11 paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, and 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly (paid time off is prorated based on start date) 
  • Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
  • Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
  • Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
  • Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
  • Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
  • To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
 

Who We Are:

 

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

 

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

 

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Base Pay Range: An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer. 

Emerging
110000
Experienced
145000
Expert
180000
Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
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