Lead Full Stack Developer/Architect, AVP

Currently DWS sources technology infrastructure, corporate functions systems [Finance, Risk, HR, Legal, Compliance, AFC, Audit, Corporate Services etc] and other key services from DB. Project Proteus aims to strategically transform DWS to an Asset Management standalone operating platform; an ambitious and ground-breaking project that delivers separated DWS infrastructure and Corporate Functions in the cloud with essential new capabilities, further enhancing DWS highly competitive and agile Asset Management capability.

This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a high performing team implementing a strategic future state technology landscape for all of DWS Corporate Functions globally.

The Lead Business Functional Expert is responsible for and leader of activities which translate complex requirements from Lead Business Functional Analysts into system specific functional specifications which serve as the basis for technical solutions. The Lead Business Functional Expert acts as the day-to-day leader of work efforts in this area across a team and/or serves as a specialist providing support across development facing work efforts and projects.

Your key responsibilities

• This role will be primarily responsible for creating good quality software designs and hence strong sense of software design principles is required
• Will get involved with hands-on code development
• Thorough testing of developed software
• Mentor junior team members in both technical and functional front
• Do code review of other team members
• Define and evolve the architecture of the components you are working on and contribute to architectural decisions at a department and bank-wide level
• Bring deep industry knowledge into the Feature Team to understand problems, leverage design patterns, automation to support a CI and CD pipeline to production and support emergent design within the agreed domain target architecture
• Take E2E Accountability and ownership of work/projects and work with the right and robust engineering practices
• Understanding of risk business and Architecture
• Converting business requirements into technical design
• Delivery, Deployment, Review, Business interaction and Maintaining environments

Additionally, the role will include other responsibilities, such as:

• Collaborating across teams
• Ability to share information, transfer knowledge and expertise to team members
• Mentoring and teaching
• Discovering new techniques and helping others to adopt them
• Leading by example
• This role will require 80% Technical involvement and 20% on other activities like team handling, mentoring, status reporting
• Work closely with Stakeholders and other teams like Functional Analysis and Quality Assurance teams
• Supports testing on behalf of users, operations, and testing teams potentially including test plans, test cases, test-data and review of interface testing, between different applications, when required
• Work with application developers to resolve functional issues from UATs, and to help find solutions for various functional difficulty areas
• Works closely with business analysts detail proposed solutions and solution maintenance
• Work with Application Management area for functional area trouble shooting and resolution to reported bugs / issues on applications

Your skills and experience

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Science or an IT-related discipline (or equivalent)
• 12+ years of experience in the IT industry with hands-on development in Java, Oracle and Unix
• Experience of Java 8 features, implementation of design patterns in Java, Multithreading support in Java 7 and 8, tools like hibernate, various ways of debugging a 3 tier java application
• Excellent knowledge of Spring Frameworks, including Spring Cloud and Spring Boot
• Experience with UI Frameworks (React is preferred)
• Experience of developing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Excellent knowledge of SQL/PLSQL
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) including testing frameworks (Junit, Cucumber, Selenium, JEST, Protractor or Puppeteer)
• Experience of delivering within an agile delivery framework
• Experience with distributed version control tool (Git, Github, BitBucket)
• Experience within Jenkins or pipelines based modern CI systems
• Educated to degree level in Computer / Data Science or equivalent qualification or work experience

Nice to have

• PHP with Laravel experience will be a plus
• Exposure to Python and GCP cloud
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using scripts