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
- Setup performance and development goals for engineers, conduct performance reviews and guide careers
- 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 software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals in modernization of microservice based applications in public cloud (AWS) and private cloud technologies.
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- In-depth knowledge of the services industry and their IT systems
- Hands-on cloud native experience
- Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
- Hands on experience in Java, Spring framework, KAFKA or other equivalent event programming technologies.
- Hands on experience in SQL and NO-SQL distributed database systems (Aurora PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, Dynamo DB, Cassandra)
- Strong practical knowledge and experience in implementing secure and resilient enterprise systems.
- Hands on experience in various testing methodologies and frameworks: Contract testing, JUnit testing, Component testing (Cucumber framework), Performance testing (JMeter/BlazeMeter) and Resiliency testing (Gremlin or other similar technologies/frameworks).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level
- Experience working in financial domain (Banking domain)