About the role:

The team: The Workplace business unit focuses on helping individuals achieve better outcomes by working with institutional clients in the global (Defined Contribution) DC and workplace markets. This is a high-growth area for Morningstar and houses a diverse product suite and unique client base. By constantly evolving our solutions and solving our client's problems, we believe we are positioned well for continued future growth.

The Role:

We seek an enthusiastic, results-driven candidate to serve as a Principal Software Engineer within the Fiduciary Solutions team. In this role, you will work with partners in technology, product management, support, and sales to drive large and complex software modernization initiatives with the goal of delivering value to our customers faster, improving quality, and reducing cost. The ability to communicate clearly with all levels and form strong relationships with stakeholders is critical for this role.

Job responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and build solutions for business-critical initiatives
• Formulate and evolve Fiduciary Solutions platform vision and technical strategy
• Use tools and methodologies to create representations for platforms, solutions, and applications such as Domain Driven Design and 12 Factor applications.
• Guide, mentor, and coach software development teams.
• Lead technical requirements gathering sessions to produce design documents and solutions
• Thrive in a flexible and fast-paced environment, including the ability to think big in a rapidly evolving technology space
• Design and build large Cloud-ready, highly scalable software
• Provide technical decisions at the application level (vendor/technology selection, solution architecture, assessing tradeoffs, etc.)
• Work with existing code / new code to develop complex distributed systems

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of developing and maintaining large, complex enterprise applications
• Significant and demonstrable Angular development experience.
• Significant and demonstrable experience in implementing Angular best practices - especially around scalability, availability, and performance.
• Significant and demonstrable experience in test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking/stubbing, and Jasmin
• Deep knowledge and experience working with and architecting cloud-native applications (ideally with Amazon Web Services)
• Significant knowledge of working with JavaScript frameworks and libraries to create rich interactive content
• Experience with AWS (S3, CloudFront, Fargate, CDK, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.

Nice to have:

• Industry experience in the finance field.

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.