AVP, Application Developer, Group Consumer Banking and Big Data Analytics Technology, Technology & Operations - (WD39257)

Key Skills

HTML, Java Programming, Leadership, JQuery, Python Programming, AJAX, Framework, SQL, DevOps, Git, REST API, Apache Kafka, Jenkins, JIRA, J2EE, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Bitbucket

Job Description

Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

Job Responsibilities:

• Experience working in Agile-based SDLC environment and participating in different Scrum sessions
• Manage high severity incidents and high customer impact incidents focusing on fast recovery
• experience in backend development using Java, Spring framework, Oracle and open-source technologies
• Drive the TDD and BDD development processes for all strategic systems
• Drive effective communication between business and technology with regards to production service reliability and performance
• Drive continuous improvements in processes or systems leveraging Site Reliability Engineering methods
• Respond to, evaluate and analyse production incidents to minimize their impact as well as devise innovative solutions to prevent them in the future
• Improve the reliability and availability of systems by gathering hard data, designing systems for increased service reliability and performance
• Provide expert advice and training to our engineers as to which technology solutions and advanced reliability techniques to use on each situation
• Strong experience on building microservices with spring boot
• Excellent programming skills in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, JSP, jQuery, HTML, Ajax, JavaScript developing client-server, n-tier, Web and Distributed Applications
• Experience working in version control tools like GIT and SVN; build tools like Maven; continuous integration tools like Jenkins, and issue-tracking platform like JIRA

Requirements:

• Experience with Banking at least 5 years will be an added advantage
• At least 5 years of working experience in J2EE Servers like Jboss, Tomcat and Apache
• At least 5 years designing dynamic web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, and React JS
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and at least 10 or more years of relevant experience
• Experience driving major production incidents and organised incident Incident Retrospective Meetings
• Experience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems
• Leadership and Management Skills/ Drive
• Self-disciplined and motivated - Ability to work independently without much supervision
• A pro-active ‘can-do’ attitude
• Ability to prioritize and self-manage incidents and defects

Additional skills:

• Good understanding of web technologies like HTML, Ajax, REST, JavaScript, CSS, Caching concepts etc.
• Exposure application technologies like Clear case, Java Spring framework, Clear quest is an added advantage
• Exposure to Messaging systems like JMS, IBM MQ, Kafka Events
• Exposure to OS like Linux and Windows
• Exposure to statistics tools like Omniture, Google Analytics etc
• Knowledge of DevOps tooling like Jenkins, BitBucket, Bamboo, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform is preferred
• Knowledge in AWS EC2, S3, ELB, ALB, NFS is preferred
• Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies
• Understanding of Software quality management, quality control management and version control management
• Certification and working knowledge of enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, ITIL etc) is preferred