Lead Software Engineer (US)

Lead Software Engineer

The Lead Software Engineer leads the creation of comprehensive end-to-end detailed solutions for projects and platforms with overall accountability for the technical design and delivery of a specific technical solution based on requirements from stakeholders.

Develops and maintains technical solutions, ensuring adherence to engineering and architectural design principles while meeting business requirements. Provides technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.

Ultimately, providing expert advice and lead in system / application administration, installation, configuration / provisioning, platform planning and design, integration and release / deployment management.

Depth & Scope:

• Expert knowledge of the business, the broader organization, technical environment, processes, procedures, tools and other relevant technology areas (e.g. Architecture, Infrastructure, Security etc.) from a design / support / solutions perspective
• Primary subject matter expert in multiple areas and consults with clients/or project teams with respect to all aspects of research, analysis, design, hardware / software support
• Expert knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues
• Works independently and/or autonomously as a senior/ lead on a diverse range of tasks / operational support of solutions

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree, Post Graduate degree or Technical Certificate
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
• Graduate degree nice to have
• 5-7 years relevant experience

Customer Accountabilities:

• Executes on Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build, test, release and configures activities across Application, Platform and Infrastructure
• Leads the creation of solution options and ultimately a comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinate relevant stakeholders, as required to support development initiatives; following a "build it, break it, fix it mentality".
• Is responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and act as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture
• Is accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming /coding
• Develops functional, technical and user interface designs for an application / system that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
• Consults on development of requirements and specifications and apply functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software / systems
• Reviews technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed
• Identifies, recommends, sources, negotiates and implements improvements/ solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience, availability, and/or reduce cost in support of client needs
• Works with Technology partners to define metrics and performance goals for the application
• Identifies and addresses application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity
• Researches/analyzes business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within business technology architecture; collects environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities
• Works with Architects to ensure that environment modifications interact appropriately, data conversion impacts are considered, and other areas of impact are addressed and meet performance requirements of the project
• Contributes to the advancement of the TD engineering practice through strong collaboration, research, analytic, and problem-solving skills

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities
• Ensures respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities
• Collaboratively engages with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
• Actively seeks and supports continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice
• Conducts meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices
• Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience
• Conducts code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design
• Monitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists
• Leads / facilitates and/or implements actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues
• Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manage risks, and escalates non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee/Team Accountabilities:

• Participates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provides thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keeps others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices
• Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues
• Leads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships
• Contributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

Physical Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience with Java
• 2+ years of experience Angular 16+ (good with similar UI technology like react.js)
• 3+ years of experience with Spring framework (Spring Core with Annotation, Spring Boot Spring Rest docs), with a good understanding of Spring Security & Authorization.
• 3+ years of AngularJS 1.x and Angular 6 & above
• 2+ years of experience with deployment automation tools : Jenkins or similar products
• 2+ years of experience with logging frameworks SLF4J, Logback or similar products
• 2+ years of experience in writing unit test cases with Junit 4.
• Proven experience working in AGILE methodology
• 2+ years of experience with cloud technologies, preferably Azure
• Sound knowledge in the performance and optimization tools
• Experience in working in micro apps and micro services

Highly desired qualifications:

• Experience in leading a team of developers in a global delivery model
• Working on high volume with low latency application development
• Containerization technologies like Kubernetes/Docker
• Experience in developing high volume low latency and high throughput responsive web applications

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel – Occasional
• International