Senior Full Stack Engineer - Banking Experience Required
Location: Hybrid- Sheffield, UK
Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35
Responsibilities
* Deliver engineering expertise for our Future State Architecture, producing best in class payment processing capabilities
* Deliver high quality code artefacts that set the example for the team, ensuring quality gates are surpassed and robust test scripts are included
* Focus on delivering highly available, highly resilient software and service capability
* Participate in a wider delivery team providing design and development of the new capabilities
* Support transformation of the current payment estate, with laser focus on modernization and adoption of cloud-based technology
Accountabilities
* Set the level expected for software delivery within the team, leading by example
* Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate
* Provides analysis and solutions to technical and business issues
* Understand and apply technology and corporate vision setting direction on implementation.
* Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage
* Maintains the complex technical infrastructure of assigned area to meet the business requirements.
* Provides technical solutions to business problems, technical leadership and direction to management.
* Remain current on technical and professional advances and business strategies regarding area of responsibility
* Resolve architectural or development blockers raised
* Partner with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI /CD pipelines to deploy services
* Initiate analysis for complex problems and issues, determine technical alternatives, analyse vendor solutions and negotiate contracts, and develop appropriate standards for technology application.
* Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager
* Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified operational procedures.
* For large systems, prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications.
* Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation and implementation of the systems
* Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives
* Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required
* Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards
* Ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards
* Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable
Qualifications
Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications
* Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Engineering or related majors
* Minimum of 15 years’ applied experience as an API engineer
* Strong experience in API designing and creating architectural artefacts such as gap analysis, low level designs, data models etc.
* More than 10 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and middleware
* More than 10 years’ experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust
* Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
* Expertise in Docker, k8s, service mesh
* Expertise in Kafka, the incumbent should be able to build and configure a cluster and develop software to produce and consume to/from the cluster
* Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry
* Expertise in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, identity and access management, cloud delivery including sizing and costing
* Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, network load-balancing, Kubernetes CNI
* Expert-level SQL coding abilities is preferred.
* Understanding of distributed Databases
* Experience of working in a financial institution, ideally in payments
* Ability to work independently and think out of the box
* The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.
* Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success
* Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation
* Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally
* Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements
Senior Delivery Consultant
Office: 02033759240
Email: psharma@vallumassociates.com
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