Vp, Engineering Lead, Consumer Banking Technology

Business Function
Group Technology enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group Technology, we manage the majority of the Bank's processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leading development teams using a hands on approach.
- Establishing and owning engineering practise by improving current practises and coming up new practises were ever required.
- Create strategy, guidelines to improve software development, delivery with world-class quality outcomes.
- Define and own software standards, patterns, methodologies and practices including software quality, execution of agile software delivery.
- Able to project manage and allocated development capacity to completing scheduled task.
- Ensure agreed architecture is implemented by development team using agreed on patterns with engineering teams and architects
- Perform POC’s and come up with patterns and frameworks.
- Transform requirements into architecture and blueprint for the solution being created.
- Ensure that the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles.
- Act as the bridge between Enterprise / Application Architecture and Delivery.
- Ensure Dev/Ops and CI/CD principles are followed.
- Mentor and support junior developers to enhance their skills.
- Maintain coding standards and best practices to ensure code quality.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure quality and consistency.

**Requirements**:

- Possess a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, backed by over 10 years of hands-on experience in Technology Consulting and Application Development.
- Excellent in Java Springboot microservices, Java Springboot (spring security, spring integration, spring batch, spring data, spring cloud, spring kafka streams), Libraries and Frameworks JPA, JMS, Maven.
- Experience with ReactJS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with the ability to ensure seamless integration between back-end services and front-end interfaces.
- Working experience with REST API, EventStreaming
- Experience with database (MariaDB, mysql, oracle etc)
- Knowledge and understanding of private (Openshift and/or PCF (Vmware Tanzu) and public cloud architecture and systems
- Good Understanding of MQ, Kafka, multi-thread is an advantage
- Experience in CI/CD (Git, Jenkin, SonarQube, NexusIQ), DevOps & Test automation
- Show dedication and a willingness to go the extra mile to meet project and client needs, often requiring creative and innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.
- Possess excellent organizational skills, empowering you to work autonomously within a collaborative, team-oriented setting while ensuring code quality and maintainability.
- Strong ability to take ownership of issues and drives resolution across teams
- Previous hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, whether as an Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or contributor to digital/technology projects, within a leading consultancy or an internal digital/technology function, is advantageous.
- Knowing wealth domain and avaloq is advantageous
- Quick learner, self-starter, detailed and thorough

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognizes your achievements.