Senior Java Development Lead

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 Business Analyst, infra, deployment 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

Must have

• Degree with more than 10 years of current, hands on technical experience
• 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    Performance tuning, optimization and automation

o    Root cause analysis and production support

• Experience of complete software development lifecycles – waterfall and agile project experience
• Strong domain knowledge in Credit Origination business process and workflow
• Good understanding of banking and knowledge and application of banking technology and regulations/compliance
• Good understanding of data security, privacy, data protection, regulatory and compliance procedures
• Go-getter attitude with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral communication and writing skills
• Strong team building, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Passionate and results orientated