Java Backend Lead

Key Responsibilities

Software Delivery 
•    Work closely with the Engineering Analysts and Product Owners to ensure a healthy, refined Product Backlog for the team and code as per the Stories
•    Ensure coding standard followed for all the stories developed
•    Ensure adherence to delivery schedules and attendance at Daily Stand-up meetings
•    Remove roadblocks and obstacles where the team is not able to do so
•    Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions
•    Facilitate team member specialization and generalization of tasks
•    Schedule Sprint Reviews at the end of each sprint with the Product Owner
•    Primarily a facilitative, servant leader and a Scrum process coach.
•    Regularly and physically meets with the team members
Deliver Functional Design
•    Participate in business process re-engineering
•    Assess value, develop cases and prioritize stories, epics and themes with acceptance criteria to ensure focus on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
•    Providing support during User Acceptance/Integration Testing
•    Walkthrough the User Manual/ Production User Verification scripts with users
Adherence to Risk & Data Quality Management Requirements
•    Proactively identify issues and actions 
•    Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
•    Awareness of the regulatory world and knowledge of AML, Fraud, Screening, Data Quality needs and ensuring these are catered for in the functional design
Stakeholder Management
•    Coordinate with resources and teams across different location

Key Stakeholders
•    Operations (Group, Regional, Country and Hubs)
•    Business - Product/Sales/Segments (Group, Regional, Country)
•    Technology – Delivery Teams and Technical Architecture)
•    Hive Leads
•    Chapter Leads
•    Trade Technology Team
•    Interface IT Teams
•    Technology Services Teams
Mandatory Skills: 
•    Technical Stack: Java, Spring and its extensions (Boot, Cloud, Data, Security, Streams), PostgreSQL/Oracle, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS modules (S3, SMS, Opensearch), Hibernate, Rest API (development, contract), Maven, Azure DevOps (ADO), 
•    Technical Tools: Confluence/ADO/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Java IDEs (Eclipse, Intellij, VSCode)
•    Agile development experience
•    Strong presentation and communication skills 
•    Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs 
•    Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, Micro service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints 
•    Experience with design and development of REST API platform using Apigee/APIM, converting web services from SOAP to REST
•    Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)
•    Experience in API layer like security, custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request and response modifications 

•    Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger and YAML or similar tools desirable
•    Experience with Unix, Linux Operating Systems 
Prior Experience
•    Relevant experience of 6-10 years
•    Banking/Fintech experience mandatory
•    Trade Finance domain experience preferred
Strategy
•    Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role
Business
•    Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
Processes
•    Responsible for executing within set processes
People & Talent
•    Lead through example