Architect IT Strategy, VP

The Lead Engineer Designs Applications, defines Modernization approaches, develops application code, implements technical solutions, configures applications in different environments, in response to business problems and in accordance with provided requirements and agreed design principles.

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Lead Engineer is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, Design, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments.
• Planning and developing entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Ensuring maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions
• Ensuring solutions are well architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow.
• Reviewing engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability.
• Participating in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools and solutions in the Bank.
• Be well versed with defining and implementing web application solutions using Microsoft technologies like .Net, ASP.Net but also Java based technologies.
• Tech Lead to an application development team working on design, development, and support of existing/new applications.
• Following clean coding practices and adapting to new technologies as per business requirements.
• Must have deployed applications in GCP or AWS using Microservices based designs. Should have exposure to migrating Windows based applications to distributed Cloud applications.

Key Requirements

• Must be able to show technical leadership experience.
• Own engineering delivery.
• Strong skillsets in designing, solutioning and developing Cloud Native services in GCP/ AWS.
• Well versed in software development using Java/ J2EE, Spring boot and associated open-source technologies.
• Well versed in scripting languages like Apache Beam or Python
• Good expertise around understanding and usage of GCP/ AWS managed services.
• Should be well versed in developing micro services in an agile development environment.
• Good knowledge to leverage NoSQL and RDBMS data sources.
• Ability to adapt to new frameworks and tools quickly
• Nice to have understating of Banking Domain.
• Experienced in implementing Agile methodologies (Scrum) and actively contributing to sprints and project deliverables.
• Actively involved in requirement analysis, creating design documents, developing frontend components, and providing project support. Dedicated to writing clean, maintainable code while optimizing performance and ensuring accessibility standards.
• Great Communication skills

Your skills and experience

• 15 to 22 years of Overall IT experience
• Engineering Degree/Post graduation from an accredited college or university.
• Ability to manage expectations of stakeholders.

Desired behaviours

• A strong team player and leader comfortable in a cross-cultural and diverse operating environment
• Result oriented and ability to deliver under tight timelines.
• Ability to successfully resolve conflicts in a globally matrix driven organization and team dynamics.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Must be comfortable with navigating ambiguity to extract meaningful risk insights.

Education/Certification

A Bachelor's or masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related discipline is required; or equivalent combination of education and relevant proven work experience that is required for the specific job level.