Lead Engineer

Role Description

Engineer is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments. Work includes:

• Planning and developing entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals
• Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Ensuring maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions
• Ensuring solutions are well architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow
• Reviewing engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability
• Participating in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools and solutions in the Bank

Your Key Responsibilities:

The candidate is expected to;

• Hands-on engineering lead involved in analysis, design, design/code reviews, coding and release activities
• Champion engineering best practices and guide/mentor team to achieve high performance.
• Work closely with Business stakeholders, Tribe lead, Product Owner, Lead Architect to successfully deliver the business outcomes.
• Acquire functional knowledge of the business capability being digitized/re-engineered.
• Demonstrate ownership, inspire others, innovative thinking, growth mindset and collaborate for success.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 15 years of IT industry experience in Full stack development
• Expert in Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, SQL/PLSQL, ReactJS,
• Strong experience in Big data processing Apache Spark, Hadoop, Bigquery, DataProc, Dataflow etc
• Strong experience in Kubernetes, OpenShift container platform
• Experience with Databases Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis/hazelcast, should understand data modeling, normalization, and performance optimization
• Experience in message queues (RabbitMQ/IBM MQ, JMS) and Data streaming i.e. Kafka, Pub-sub etc
• Experience of working on public cloud GCP preferred, AWS or Azure
• Knowledge of various distributed/multi-tiered architecture styles Micro-services, Data mesh, Integration patterns etc
• Experience on modern software product delivery practices, processes and tooling and BIzDevOps skills such as CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git Actions etc
• Experience on designing solutions, based on DDD and implementing Clean / Hexagonal Architecture efficient systems that can handle large-scale operation
• Experience on leading teams and mentoring developers
• Focus on quality experience with TDD, BDD, Stress and Contract Tests
• Proficient in working with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and understand data formats like JSON, XML, YAML, Parquet etc

Key Skills:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• NodeJS
• SQL/PLSQL
• ReactJS

Advantageous:

• Having prior experience in Banking/Finance domain
• Having worked on hybrid cloud solutions preferably using GCP
• Having worked on product development.