Lead Engineer, VP

Job Title Lead Engineer

Location Pune, India

Corporate Title Vice President

Role Description

As a lead engineer within the Regulatory Transaction Reporting department, you will lead and drive forward critical engineering initiatives and improvements to our application landscape whilst supporting and leading the engineering teams to excel in their roles. You will be closely aligned to the architecture function and development leads, ensuring alignment with planning and correct design and architecture governance is followed for all implementation work. You will lead by example and drive and contribute to automation and innovation initiatives with the engineering teams.

Your key responsibilities

• Experienced hands-on cloud and on-premise engineer, leading by example with engineering squads
• Thinking analytically, with systematic and logical approach to solving complex problems, and high attention to detail
• Design & document complex technical solutions at varying levels in an inclusive and participatory manner with a range of stakeholders
• Liaise and face-off directly to senior stakeholders in technology, business and modelling areas
• Collaborating with application development teams to design and prototype solutions (both on-premises and on-cloud), supporting / presenting these via the Design Authority forum for approval and providing good practice and guidelines to the teams
• Ensuring engineering & architecture compliance with bank-standard processes for deploying new applications, working directly with central functions such as Group Architecture, Chief Security Office and Data Governance
• Innovate and think creatively, showing willingness to apply new approaches to solving problems and to learn new methods, technologies and potentially outside-of-box solution

Your skills and experience

• Atleast 12+ years of proven hands-on engineering and design experience in a delivery-focused (preferably agile) environment
• Solid technical/engineering background, preferably with at least two high level languages (preferably Java/Kotlin/Python) and multiple relational databases (Oracle preferred) or CloudSQL technologies (PostGres / MongoDB),
• Proven experience with cloud technologies, preferably GCP (GKE / CloudRun / DataProc / CloudSQL / BigQuery), GitHub & Terraform
• Competence / expertise in technical skills across a wide range of technology platforms and ability to use and learn new frameworks, libraries and technologies
• A deep understanding of the software development life cycle and the waterfall and agile methodologies
• Experience leading complex engineering initiatives and engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrable ability to interface and converse at both junior and senior level and with non-IT staff
• Line management experience including working in a matrix management configuration

How we ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs