Loan IQ Environment Platform Engineer

Job Title: Loan IQ Environment Platform Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Type: Full‑time

Job Description:

Join a leading financial institution as a Loan IQ Environment Platform Engineer, responsible for the stability, performance, and governance of the Loan IQ lending platform. You will serve as the senior technical SME, ensuring Loan IQ environments support complex commercial lending workflows, integrations with Fusion payments systems, and strict compliance and audit requirements.

Responsibilities: • Act as the senior hands‑on SME for Loan IQ, providing advanced troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and resolution of complex production and non‑production issues. • Lead deep‑dive analysis using SQL on the Loan IQ database to identify data issues, accounting breaks, lifecycle inconsistencies, and reconciliation defects. • Demonstrate expert understanding of Loan IQ functional architecture, including deal setup, drawdowns, repayments, fees, interest accruals, and accounting flows. • Own and manage Loan IQ environments (DEV, SIT, UAT, PROD) in line with SDLC, change management, and release governance standards. • Provide platform‑level support across servers, middleware, schedulers, and batch processing, ensuring stability, performance, and resilience. • Partner with development teams to support code deployments, upgrades, hotfixes, and vendor patches, enabling zero‑defect releases into production. • Lead incident, problem, and major‑outage management, including post‑incident RCA documentation aligned with risk, audit, and compliance expectations. • Support and monitor interfaces and integrations between Loan IQ and upstream/downstream systems (e.g., GL, payments, reporting, data warehouses). • Drive proactive environment health checks, capacity planning, performance tuning, and automation to reduce operational risk and improve platform reliability. • Ensure strict adherence to enterprise controls, including SOX audit readiness, access management, data security, and regulatory compliance. • Serve as a technical escalation point for business, QA, and vendor teams, guiding defect triage, testing strategies, and production‑readiness reviews. • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to operational‑excellence initiatives, process standardization, and continuous improvement across the Loan IQ estate.

Key Skills: • 5+ years of hands‑on experience with Loan IQ SDK, APIs, data model, and Event Manager. • 2+ years of relevant experience in a financial services or platform‑engineering context. • Strong technical skills in SQL, Java, XML, and JSON, with experience working with RDBMS such as Oracle and SQL Server. • Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka or MQ. • Strong understanding of commercial lending lifecycle, accounting flows, and reconciliation concepts. • Experience in environment management, SDLC/change governance, and release support.

Preferred Skills: • Experience with Fusion Global PAYplus and Fusion Payments to GO. • Background in banking or capital‑markets technology, including payments and GL integrations. • Experience in incident management, RCA, and risk/compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX).