**Job Details**:
**Location**
Southbank
**Salary**
A market leading bonus package
**Job Type**
Full Time
**Ref**
BBBH94801_1665983108
**Contact**
Aman Singh
**Posted**
about 3 hours ago
**The Opportunity**
Our client is a global financial services powerhouse brand looking for a Technology Lead to join their development team. With a view to simplify the operation and adoption of digital platforms and apps for their customers they are innovating on ways their customers access their services. The Technology Lead will play a key role in the full product ops and development life cycle run on an Agile methodology with embedded DevSecOps principals.
The role will work with a wide range of technologies, languages and clouds including AWS (DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Cloud Formation, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, EC2, AppSync, Serverless services), Java 8 and/or 9 with Spring Boot, Spring Integration, JAX-RS, Spring Batch and Spring Security, NodeJS, and JavaScript/Typescript.
The role will require you to have a strong and in-depth understanding of cloud, CI/CD practices, and modern development practices. Tooling such as Git/GitHub, Bamboo/Jenkins, Gradle, NPM/Yarn, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarQube, etc.
As our client's platform team is in growth mode there are plenty of challenges to overcome, decisions to be made, and new development to do. Needless to say you will have a lot of interesting things to learn and problems to solve.
Role Responsibilities:
- Partner with Platform teams, Product Management, DevOps, and other key collaborators to create and implement the roadmap for platform services.
- Guide and empower the development team on decisions for features, technology, architecture, designs, time & budget estimates, and test strategies.
- Mentor a diverse team of engineering talent.
- Partner with other teams across our client to collaborate on interdependent technologies.
- Work in a fast-paced, agile process
- Experience in setting up, operating and monitoring a technical platform and its associated technologies.
- Capability to question the status quo, challenge yourself and the business on the value that will be delivered to end customers
- Working to succeed as one team by providing technical mentoring and guidance, driving best of breed engineering practices relevant to the work, and uplifting technical ways of working.
- Lead issue resolution, identifying root cause and implementing solutions.
- Experience with API management platforms, design standards, patterns and best practices
What you need to succeed:
- Excellent and effective communication skills
- Experience leading software development teams
- Experience working with and operating high-availability cloud native systems
- Experience working in multi-functional environment and building partnerships with key teams
- B.S. or above degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of cloud and container technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS is a plus.
With an impressive Glassdoor rating our client provides an exceptional work environment that is recognized in the tech community. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow via ongoing feedback which flows freely.