Job responsibilities
- Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
- Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
- Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
- Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
- Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Java, Spring Boot/ Spring Framework, Hibernate concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot/ Spring Framework, Hibernate
- RDMS experience with SQL, Performance Tuning and preferably with Oracle 19c
- Solid understanding of messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka and MQ and their integration in real-time applications
- Designing solutions that are resilient and scalable and able to utilise either on premise or cloud-based infrastructure based on business and budget requirements.
- Self-starter, delivery focused, strong experience on Agile methodology
- Mentoring and developing a team of software engineers
- Keen to understand and solve business related problems and a track record of high performance and delivery
- Strong communication and ability to collaborate effectively with cross functional teams
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience of AWS cloud based technologies
- Knowledge in Finance, particularly knowledge of Prime Brokerage and Securities Lending products and business
- Object Oriented design skills with good knowledge of object modelling and design patterns.