Engineering Tech Lead / Associate Director, Software Engineering

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering. In this role, you will:

• Design and engineer software with the customer/user experience as a key objective.
• Actively contribute to Technology Engineering Practice by sharing Subject Matter Expertise from your area of specialism, best practice, and learnings.
• Drive adherence to all standards and policies within your area of Technology Engineering.
• Deliver and support data-related infrastructure and architecture to optimise data storage and consumption across the bank, including addressing functional and non-functional requirements relevant to data in large applications.
• Design and develop applications for internal and external users, focusing on the interface and front-end usability of the application.
• Engineer and implement security measures for the protection of internal and external systems, networks, products, and services.
• Have proven experience delivering greenfield product development , building new products and platforms from the ground up, including architecture definition, technology selection, and establishing engineering foundations and standards.
• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organisational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members.
• Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team.
• Manage stakeholder communications and help implement an effective system of project governance.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Have 15+ years of experience.
• Knowledge of Java and Cloud Technologies and related products.
• Experience in Java, SpringBoot, Kubernetes & Docker, MongoDB, SQL, Micro Service Design, Kafka, GCP.
• Experience or knowledge of DevOps practices and latest CICD technologies such as GITOps.
• Experience supporting middleware/database design, build, and troubleshooting in development and production environments.
• Experience of working with monitoring and alerting tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Geneos, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
• Experience in agile and DevOps environment using team collaboration tools such as Jenkins, Github, Confluence, and JIRA.