Must have: Java, API, Microservices, Kafka, AWS/Azure/GCP, Banking/Payment experience
Responsibilities
* 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, analyze 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 objective
* 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
* Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Engineering or related majors
* Minimum of 8 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 5 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and middleware
* More than 8 years’ experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust
* Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
* Experience working with Kafka, Docker, k8s, service mesh
* Experience with monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry
* Experience in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, identity and access management, cloud delivery including sizing and costing
* Demonstrable knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, network load-balancing, Kubernetes CNI.
* Strong SQL coding abilities is preferred
* 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
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
Contract
Job Function
Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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