Job responsibilities
- Provides guidance to immediate team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities.
- Sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration.
- Anticipates dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements.
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems.
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
- Manages stakeholder relationships and the team’s work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements.
- Creates a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and prioritizes diverse representation.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on SDLC concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
- Experience leading technology projects.
- Experience managing technologists.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and React.
- Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
- Practical cloud native experience.
- Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level.
- AWS certification.