Engineering Lead

• Advice future technology capabilities and architecture design considering business objectives, technology strategy, trends and regulatory requirements
• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
• Understand and Recommend business flows and translate them to API Ecosystem

• Responsible for executing and supervising microservices development to facilitate business capabilities and orchestrate to achieve business outcomes

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people, and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.

• The ability to interpret the Portfolio Key Risks, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role

• Product Owners, Hive Leads, Client Coverage Tech and Biz Stakeholders

• 10 Years of experience in application development using Java and related technologies
• Having proven track record or building global enterprise grade applications from scratch
• Strong understanding of fundamental architecture and design principles, object-orientation principles, and coding standards
• Experience in building extensible and scalable solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent knowledge in DevOps, CI-CD
• Experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall models
• Experience in developing enterprise / application architecture in detail.
• Strong experience in Application Delivery including Production Support
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks
• Awareness about Release Management
• Strong team player who can collaborate effectively with relevant stakeholders

• Expert in programming skills using Java & related technologies.
• Good hands on Java Collections and Streams
• Good knowledge about Design Patterns and Principles
• Strong experience in Developing application data models
• Good hands on experience on developing seamless interfaces across multiple OLTP/OLAP applications.
• Good knowledge on API building (Web Service, SOAP/REST)
• Good knowledge on Unit testing and code coverage using JUnit/Mockito
• Good knowledge on code quality tools like SonarQube etc.
• Good knowledge on multi-threading, multi-processing implementations
• Strong experience in RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Ability to work in quick paced, dynamic environment adapting agile methodologies
• Ability to work with minimal guidance and/or high-level design input
• Knowledge on Microservices based development and implementation
• Knowledge on CI-CD pattern with related tools like GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, JIRA, etc.
• Knowledge on JSON libraries like Jackson/GSON
• Knowledge on basic Unix Commands
• Possess good documentation and presentation skills
• Able to articulate ideas, designs, and suggestions
• Mentoring fellow team members, conducting code reviews

• Experience in application development for Client Coverage Credit Modules
• Good knowledge on Cloud native application development, and knowledge of Cloud computing services

• Training/qualifications and Certifications in some of the functional and/or technical domains as mentioned will be an added advantage

• Participates in development of multiple or large software products and estimates and monitors development costs based on functional and technical requirements.
• Must have advanced knowledge on hosting platforms like – Kubernetes/Openshift/AWS EKS
• Contrasts advantages and drawbacks of different development languages and tools.
• Expertise in RDBMS solutions (Oracle, PostgreSQL) & NoSQL offerings (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
• Experience in distributed technologies e.g. Kafka, Apache MQ, RabbitMQ etc. will be added advantage
• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.
• Strong knowledge in application integration using Web Service (SOAP/REST/GRPC) or Messaging using JMS.
• Ability to design and build smart, scalable, reliable solutions with tight deadlines
• Strong knowledge about design patterns and development principles, microservices architecture
• Good hands on Data structure and Algorithms.

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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