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Job Description Summary
Level 5 will have all traits from Level 4 but sometimes will lead technical development on product/team/domain level. They may start taking responsibility for overall tech delivery & app ownership alongside their own software engineering output. They are experts of parts of the domain and technology used.
Job Description
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Hyderabad
Years of experience: 3 to 14 years
Java, J2ee, Spring Boot, Spring Boot Reactive programming, Microservices, REST & SOAP APIs, RDBMS and/ or No-SQL Databases, ReactJS, Redux, Webpack, Cloud Experience and Kafka.
Key Responsibilities:
We're in search of someone who,
- Thrives in acquiring & applying findings to create customer & business value.
- Has experiences working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
- Is excited at the prospect of changing the status quo, inspiring change with new insights, ideas and encouraging experimentations or market research.
- Has established systems engineering or solution architecture experience & appreciation of software engineering methods such as Behaviour & Test-Driven Development.
- Enjoys communicating & influencing collaborators with little or no technical knowledge, influencing their thinking on the art of the possible through technology.
- Can identify appropriate project, architecture, service or risk management methodologies that enable customer value realisation.
- Is excited to translate varied technology requirements into relevant solutions.
- Is well averse in defining solutions using Agile, Emergent & Intentional architecture methods.
- Has substantive experiences defining architectural runways or solution architecture roadmaps for inclusive systems which span adaptive infrastructure domains at Digital-scale.
- Has established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.
- Holds proficient experiences leading activities associated with Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
- Has appreciation for Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Software patterns or similar.
- Understands how & where third party products could be appropriate, knowledge of technology purchasing processes & best practise.
- Be a technical leader both within your team and outside, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers as appropriate.
- Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Labs, through defining a strategy and designing solutions to deliver our target cloud architecture.
- Capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.
- Strong architecture skills with a good working knowledge of microservice design patterns, containerised applications, infrastructure as code in containerised environments, embedding DevOps principles to support delivery at scale and designing solutions at scale.
Here's where you'll make a difference:
- Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Group technology landscape, ensuring value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role driving the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.
- Our continued commitment to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.
- Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
- We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together.
- As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Islands are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Islands would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring-Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles.
Required Skills:
You will have skillsets to cover below as a minimum.
- Experienced with the full software development lifecycle and relevant frameworks
- A proven track record of the Spring framework, Git workflows, testing (TDD, Mock object), and DevOps toolchains
- Designing and developing Microservices using Sprint Boot and Reacting programming with Spring Boot
- Java and J2EE development expertise , Databases RDBMS and NO-SQL
- Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as ReactJS, Redux, Webpack and modern toolsets like test automation, Kubernetes and Jenkins
- Experience with REST APIs
- Experience of microservice and micro front-end design, container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm)
- Cloud Deployment experience
- Phenomenal teamwork and communication skills as well as team leader/mentoring experience
- Experienced in building and deploying microservices with strong debugging experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Databases and GCP cloud.
- Expertise in tools such as Dynatrace, CI/CD, GCP cloud deployment, Curl, and Postman.
- Hands on in Kubernetes and Docker. Preferable to have exposure to Terraform, Istio and Helm charts.
- Work with the DevOps tools team to develop for microservices deployment with CICD pipelines.
- Experience with Releases and deployments to production, troubleshooting in production.
- Experience with messaging and integration frameworks like JMS, MQ, and Kafka.
- Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services. Develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues.
- Ability to initiate and implement ideas to solve business problems.
- Ability to multi-task and also work independently to meet the committed deadlines.
- Identifies and evaluates complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.
- Manages the development and/or operation of knowledge management system with guidance from senior colleagues.
- Analyses specified problems and issues to find the best technical and/or professional solutions.
- Strong Communication, Influential and Leadership skills
- Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant experience in design, development and architecting complex software solutions.
- 10+ years of experience working as a hands-on software developer end-to-end solution.
- 6+ year of experience in designing and developing micro-front end and microservices.
- 6+ years of experience working in large financial services; preferably banking industry
- 6+ years of Systems Architecture and Application design experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of experience with Google Cloud/ Azure Cloud/ AWS (or comparable CSP)
- Secondary Skills: Kubernetes, Docker, GKE/ Cloud Run, prior GCP experience, CI/ CD pipelines, Dynatrace/ AppDynamics, Splunk/ Google Cloud Logging, Unix/ Linux.
