Senior Development Lead (IT)

Job Objectives

·     Drive standardization, best practice adoption, and consistency to implement a sustainable platform to rollout to regional countries

·     Take accountability to deliver the scope on-time, within budget with high quality. Exercise judgment, take initiative and make decisions.

·     Deliver solutions that meet and exceed the functional, non-functional/technical, infrastructure and security requirements

·     Lead and collaborate with cross-functional and technical teams including business analysts, technical teams, testing teams and other Host technical teams to design and deliver solutions

·     Mentor and train technical team members with the potential to grow into Technical Leads

·     Work effectively with the business users and with the internal IT and Security Teams to ensure efficiency of the solutions implemented to support the business

Key Responsibilities

·     Work closely with the BA, infra, deployments and vendor teams.

·     Use and manage vendor augmented resources and ensure work assignments for high utilization and effective, quality outcomes while avoiding re-work

·     Drive technical innovation to enhance functional and technical capabilities of the platform

·     Build frameworks for configuration instead of code for each component

·     Communicate with technical and non-technical resources and work with limited direction while being highly productive

·     Apply standards and industry frameworks while leverage existing technologies and tools in the Bank

·     Implement solutions considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance.

·     Produce detailed design /low level design documents that communicate the system design effectively

·     Drive adherence to development, configuration management and deployment standards for solutions

·     Analyse performance test, vulnerability assessments and any other test related issues that arise during projects

·     Manage, address and resolve project-related technical issues in a timely fashion, ensuring necessary escalation and communication to stakeholders as necessary

·     Select, train, develop and manage technical team members in a conducive team environment

·     Lead multi-vendor teams to successfully deliver solutions

·     Guide the project team in issue resolution to meet the requirements and timelines

Key Requirements

• Degree with 8-10 years of current, hands on technical experience
• Project experience in Bank Industry is a MUST
• Go getter attitude with strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Solid understanding of:

o    AIX O/S and/or RedHat platform and scripting skills

o    Java and internet-related components  (i.e: JSON, XML)

o    iPlanet, WebSphere, WebLogic, Database, Sql

o    DevOps suite of products (i.e: Jenkins, GitHub, Sonar, Aldon, etc)

o    Connect Direct, SFTP, basic UNIX commands

o    Perf tuning and automation in general

• Working knowledge of microservice implementation, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and Kafka.
• Experience of complete software development lifecycles – waterfall and agile project experience
• General understanding of banking and knowledge and application of banking technology and regulations/compliance
• Understanding of data security, privacy, data protection, regulatory and compliance procedures
• Strong oral communication and writing skills
• Strong team building, interpersonal and leadership skills

Passionate and results orientated