Developer / Application Responsible GOS 100% (f/m/d) - (contract Through Our External Payroll Partner With Immediate Start For 12 Months With Possible Extension)

Lead Software Engineer

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We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take full application responsibility, driving end-to-end development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of critical banking systems. You will champion engineering excellence, DevOps practices, and technical mentorship within an agile, regulated environment.

Your Challenge

• Define and select appropriate methods, techniques, standards, guidelines and tools for software development
• Develop software and software components as well as possible interfaces to databases and the system environment (peripheral systems)
• Improve and enhance applications by continuously reviewing, updating design and implementation
• Promote test driven development to enable automated testing and to achieve "shift-left"
• Demonstrate solution and gather feedback within product backlog
• Ensure non-functional requirements are embedded in the application
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support of the application in conjunction with System Architect and Product Owner
• Support deployment process
• Follow policies and procedures for compliant and regulated development
• Conduct code review across the team
• Coach and develop other software engineers
• Support production operations by analyzing incidents and providing fixes
• Responsible for level 2 (to be automated as far as possible) and level 3 support
• Maintain software code documentation throughout the lifecycle
• Implement integration and deploy updates and fixes to production environment
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies, procedures and code
• Automate processes for continuous delivery and continuous integration
• Follow key DevOps principles: culture, automation, lean, measurement & sharing as well as coaching and development of colleagues on DevOps

Application Responsibility

• Application Responsibility refers to permanent ownership for an application across the full lifecycle, i.e. in investment and in maintenance mode – this ensures continuity in technical leadership of the application
• For custom-built software, application responsibility is typically assigned to the lead Software Engineer; for packaged solutions, application responsibility is typically assigned to the lead Systems Engineer that has a stronger focus on integration
• All individuals that work with an AR role can continue to develop a Community of Practice

Your Profile

• Agile mindset and experience in applying Agile methodology & framework
• Encourages the agile team to self-organize and self-manage
• Helps other team members to communicate, coordinate, collaborate and drive improvement in practices, processes and mindset to deliver value in an efficient manner
• Facilitates the cadence, events and artefacts across the agile team
• Engage with the PO and PM to encourage and empower the agile team
• Engages with the Agile Coach and RTE to drive the OVS forward
• Proactively removes obstacles and impediments for the team
• Enables organizational effectiveness, continuous improvement through Inspect & Adapt and feedback culture
• Facilitates the Scrum of Scrums with other Agile teams
• In-depth knowledge of project delivery methodologies
• Strong visualisation abilities
• Experience in designing and facilitating training sessions, workshops, and coaching conversations
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Effective problem-solving capabilities
• Cross-cultural awareness with empathy and relationship-building strengths
• Scrum Master certification
• Very good English level