Job Title: Senior Full Stack Engineer
Location: Hybrid- Sheffield, UK
Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35
The role including below major 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
The role including below major 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 Bachelors 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 distributed system design including microservices, Springboot
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
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