Dev Sec Ops / Delivery Head

Job Description

Team Development: Help develop a team of highly skilled engineers that will cross-pollinate best practices and engineering excellence across the organization through inspirational and engaging leadership. Process Improvement: Analyze current processes, practices, and tools to make improvement recommendations and lead the implementation of each, focusing on DevSecOps methodologies. Skill Assessment and Training: Assess team skill and capability maturity, define and implement training plans to match team and personal improvement roadmaps, particularly in DevSecOps and Agile practices. Best Practices Implementation: Introduce industrial best practices (e.g., DORA, SPACE framework) to build an engineering excellence team and coach Agile best practices to optimise team processes. Continuous Improvement: Coach delivery PODs retrospectives to instill a continuous improvement mindset into the teams DNA and uplift delivery maturity through DevSecOps practices. Blameless Culture: Support management in building a blameless culture, encouraging experimentation and learning from failure. Innovation and Strategy: Inspire the organisation to embrace innovation, help plan innovation strategies, and coordinate innovation incubation events (e.g., Hackathons). Customer-Centric Approach: Coach teams on building effective feedback loops with customers/business and incorporate customer feedback to evolve products. Employee Happiness: Actively monitor employee happiness and be the voice of employees to increase team satisfaction. Technical Expertise: Provide engineering expertise in areas such as data engineering, security engineering, and user experience engineering. Design and engineer software with customer/user experience as a key objective. Compliance and Standards: Ensure adherence to all standards and policies within the area of Technology Engineering, including compliance with relevant controls and regulations. Service Resilience: Ensure service resilience, sustainability, and recovery time objectives are met for all software solutions delivered. Collaboration and Influence: Work as a trusted advisor to influence senior executives on transformation strategy and support strategy implementation, while actively engaging with business and operation teams to support value stream alignment. Requirements To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements Bachelors or master s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Extensive experience (8+ years) in software development, with a focus on agile methodologies such as test-driven development (TDD), and DevSecOps practices. Strong expertise in Java, Python, or similar programming languages, with hands-on experience developing robust and scalable software solutions for the banking or financial industry. Think strategically but able to dive into analysis and execution. In-depth knowledge of agile software development principles, practices, and tools (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.) Demonstrated experience in implementing DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and security best practices. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Ali Cloud) and associated services for scalable and secure software development. Knowledge of banking systems, regulations, and compliance requirements is highly desirable. Strong coaching skill, be able to influence engineers on strategic transformation decisions. Excellent written and spoken communication skills. Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions within specified constraints.