Equiniti INDIA - Engineering Manager - Full Stack Development (10-17 yrs)

EQ India is a leading Shareholder Management Fin-tech Company. It specializes in providing top-notch infrastructure, technology, and solutions for shareholder administration, pension, remediation, and credit technology.

EQ India is a Global inhouse centre/ Captive unit of EQ Group -the largest share registrar in the UK and the second largest in the USA,

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We are looking for an Engineering Manager-Java to be part of our offshore development centre in Bangalore. Please find the below job description.

Job Location : Electronic City - Phase 2, Bangalore

Exp : 9+ Yrs

Notice : Immediate to 30 Days

Mode of Work : Hybrid (3 Days from Office)

Role Summary :

The Engineering Manager will guide, drive, and lead excellence within the teams to enable market-leading software engineering standards for the development and delivery of innovative products enabling iconic global recall to Equiniti. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday.

Principal engineers thrive on the chance to employ their multi-faceted skills to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products, the department, their team and individuals forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement or programme acceleration and contribute significantly to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Professional Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level : 5 - Ensure, Advise

- Line Management responsibility for Engineers within the Engineering home. Provide encouragement, guidance, coaching and mentoring to members of the team

- Lead the adoption of the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM within the engineers aligned to your Home

- Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products

- Identify and implement the engineering model best suited for Equiniti based on current business context and available resources

- Lead and promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating new ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality

- Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs

- Responsible for and above all advocate for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, working alongside Product to ensure the reduction of technical debt is prioritised appropriately

- Foster and maintain the relationship with central EQ functions (i.e. risk management, compliance, InfoSec etc) and ensure any corrective actions are raised with Product for timely execution

- Mentor and guide all engineers within your team and assist with technical challenges as needed

- Infuse a sense of ownership & pride amongst team members to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team

- Build a strong talent pipeline through hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.

Technical Responsibilities - SFIA Skill : Programming/software development PROG at Level 5

- Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software construction and refactoring.

- Plans and leads software construction activities for strategic, large and complex development projects.

- Adapts or develops new methods and organisational capabilities and drives adoption of, and adherence to policies and standards.

- Sets the release policy for the organisation in the context of both development and production/operations.

- Implements processes, tools, and resources to ensure that the transition of services, service components and packages are planned and compliant.

- Ensures that test, validation and configuration management are included in all release and deployment activities.

- Provides authorisation for critical release activity and point of escalation.

- Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.

- Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support.

- Manages application enhancements to improve business performance.

- Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs.

Technical Experience at Expert Level :

- Full Stack development.

- Hands-on experience writing software in Java and Web using HTML, CSS, ReactJS, jQuery, TypeScript, JSON, XML.

- Experience building applications using Struts/Spring & J2EE frameworks, Web Services/RESTful services.

- RDBMS experience with exposure to writing Stored Procedures and SQL queries.

- Experience working in both Linux and Windows host environments.

- Experience working with ESBs or similar technologies and backend scheduled jobs are a plus.

- Experience to Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.

- Experience working on Banking/Finance sector is a plus.

- Able to utilize tools like JIRA, Visio and MS Office tools for documentation and work tracking purposes.

- Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelines.