About Albany Beck
Albany Beck are a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional career and personal development.
Role Overview
In this role, you will lead engineering for our flagship AI capability. You will work across a broad range of services from generative AI and machine learning components to integration services. This position requires hands-on engineering, leading by example to deliver a best-in-class solution iteratively to our users. You will also influence engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure we are building the right products in the right way.
Key Responsibilities
* Be hands-on, delivering code to production, supporting the architecture and design of the system aligned to a microservice structure.
* Be expected to have an awareness of business, engineering and non-functional requirements to help our business to grow.
* Drive the wider engineering culture expected across our teams.
* Collaborate with a global team where co-ordination activities would cross regional boundaries.
* Proactively remove impediments, see risk and communicate issues to program management.
* Identify process inefficiencies and find innovative and programmatic ways to eliminate them.
Key Skills and Experience
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
* Have strong experience in software engineering with proven expertise in designing, developing and deploying backend applications.
* Experience delivering in code in a microservice architecture.
* Experience regularly delivering change to production at high cadence.
* Experience delivering RESTful APIs to production.
* Previous experience writing schemas for and working with PostgreSQL databases.
You should also have experience with one or more of the following:
* Experience with Java, preferably recent use of the latest versions.
* An understanding of containers and Container Orchestration technology such as Docker/Kubernetes and GCP Cloud platform.
* Experience developing UI applications using ReactJS.
* Experience working in the financial sector, specifically banking, previously