Senior Engineer, AVP

Role Description

• The candidate in this role will architect, design, develop application code, implement technical solutions and configure applications in different environments in response to business problems.
• To meet the requirements of the business, the candidate will actively participate in architecture design, application development lifecycle, investigate issues (bugs/performance), propose solutions, promote re-usability of existing components and contribute to the creation of frameworks.
• The candidate will assist junior members of the team and guide them as applicable. Knowledge of LoanIQ/Lending domain will be an advantage.

Your key responsibilities

• Demonstrably solid software engineering skills.
• As part of a high-performing development team, design and deliver highly functional, robust and scalable code.
• Leverage design patterns, test driven development (TDD) and behavior driven development (BDD) to build software that is reliable and easy to support in production
• Experience of working in a team development environment as well as globally distributed project team
• Leads development of source code, including descriptions, for all software components in accordance with the detailed software requirements and design
• Experience in application architecture and solution design
• Hands-on experience of Microservices architecture, microservices development and cloud technologies would be added advantage
• Experience in understanding enterprise data models and documenting data attribute mapping & interface control requirements
• Actively participate and contribute in Agile ceremonies including Daily Stand up's, Sprint Planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective meetings
• Strong communication, negotiation, networking and influencing skills are essential because collaboration with end-users, technology and operational functions are critical to the relevance of the product.
• Verifies the developed source code via reviews (4-eyes principle) and resolve review findings
• Integrates software components following the groups integration strategy
• Verifies integrated software components by unit and integrated software testing according to the software test plan. Software test findings must be resolved
• Ensures all code changes are tracked and recorded through the groups change management process as Change Items (CIs) and that development is scheduled and approved
• Provides Release Deployments on non-Production Management controlled environments
• Captures Build and Deployment notes, develops Software Product Deployment & Operating Instructions
• Manages maintenance of applications and performs technical change requests scheduled according to Release Management processes
• Fixes software defects/bugs
• Measures and analyses code for quality
• Collaborates with Functional Analysts and QA to complete work, as required.
• Reviews and mentors other developers in developing solutions which perform to expected results and handle negative test case scenarios
• Provides Level 3 support
• Contributes to root cause/problem analysis and solution brainstorming
• Collaborates with Functional Analysts and QA to complete work, as required.
• Create required documentation for the project.
• Recommend changes to improve established java application processes and its performance
• Shall be ready to learn new Java technologies as per the project requirements

Your skills and experience

• Full stack Java developer
• Very good practical experience of Event Driven Architecture application is a plus
• Strong design skills in building solutions for cloud and microservices architecture and ability to guide the Dev team for both solution and issue resolution independently
• Hands-on Experience in design, architecture, source code management, continuous build, continuous integration technologies, TDD, performance improvement and profiling tools
• Good understanding of web technologies, frameworks and tools, for example: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Angular, Bootstrap, React, D3, Node.js
• Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins is a plus.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Google Cloud Platform is a plus
• OS: Unix, Windows
• Database: Oracle (preferred), DB2
• Languages and Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Event Driven Architecture, React JS/Angular JS, J2EE, Mybatis, Hibernate, Junit
• Tools: GIT, Eclipse/IntelliJ, Maven, Ant, Linux/Unix shell scripting, JMS/MQ
• Other (Plus/Advantage):
• Knowledge of Messaging (Middleware)
• Knowledge of Design Patterns
• Knowledge of Loan IQ product and data model
• Knowledge or experience of C++ but not mandatory
• Experienced with Docker, Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet highly preferred.
• Experience with TDD and BDD, with hands-on experience with least one testing framework, e.g. Junit, Cucumber, Selenium

Key Attributes:

• Ability to architect/design solution for a given requirement
• Ability to provide technical leadership to the team

• Ability to write high quality code
• Ability to solve business or production problems
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, particularly in a multi-cultural environment
• Excellent team player
• Keeps pace with technical innovation

Experience and Education:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or equivalent
• 12+ years of relevant work experience
• Investment Banking experience will be advantage