Lead Platform Owner – Common Services

The Lead Platform Owner – Common Services leads the Common Services function within the Integration Platform unit and requires an in-depth understanding of APIs and industry standards. The role also requires knowledge of Google, Amazon, and UAE APIs.

This position involves working within an agile development methodology and managing teams of Software and Test Engineers. The Lead Platform Owner – Common Services applies extensive expertise in orchestration microservices, real-time integration technologies, and business processes to meet business requirements in a dynamic and agile environment.

In this role, the incumbent coordinates and manages multiple product teams comprising Software and Test Engineers and Solution Architects, driving the successful delivery of integration projects in line with quality, time, and cost objectives. The role also requires experience in event streaming, including complex event processing and building event-driven integrations.

Key Result Areas:-

1. Delivering the product/project within the timeframe and meets customer satisfaction.
2. Ensure Compliance of project delivery to PMO, QMS, and Risk, Audit and architecture guidelines
3. IT Roadmap and Process Improvement
4. Strategic Partnerships
5. People leadership

Skills & Experience Required:-

• General banking and business area knowledge is necessary in order to steer necessary implementations according to bank's strategy.
• Experience in applying agile /waterfall implementation methodology along with corresponding project management methodology (capacity planning, vendor management, medium scale development coordination) which also comprises management of interfaces and dependencies to other platform teams and also in connection with the other agile teams. Additional overview of current testing practices and infrastructure requirements relevant.
• Experience in Integration domain, Architecture, Banking microservices is essential.
• Expertise in relevant technology, implementation and use cases as well as deep knowledge of tools used in the bank specifically in the scope of microservices /integration technology.
• Strong experience in defining overall API architecture, API implementations, integration & deployment of API management platforms
• Working knowledge of API security(OAUTH, SAML, JWT, etc) and Network concepts(F5,High Availability, IP security setup ,etc)
• Deep Knowledge on design principles and best practices in implementing Restful Design and APIs
• Sound knowledge on data transformation, data security and data delivery processes
• Knowledge of AWS S3 API’s/ Object store
• Knowledge of Cloud technology and terminology is a plus.
• Sound knowledge of Micro services and JSON is essential
• Development experience in SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, Java/Java EE, XML/XSD.,SSL, Shell scripting, HTTP, SOAP, REST,JSON is preferred
• Experience in SSL, shell scripting ,java, SQL, PL/SQL
• Additional knowledge of the major strategic priorities of the bank and their implications for technology required
• Preferred experience in one of the following: Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, Beam, Spark.
• Understanding of Architecture and principles of Complex event processing and asynchronous microservices
• Leadership experience with team size exceeding 30