Responsibilities

Technical Leadership:

• Provide direction and be responsible for the output of frontend discipline within Application Development.
• Implement software engineering strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives.
• Own the frontend application development capability for our global mobile solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the global mobile solution product owner.
• Contribute to the definition of applications development policies, standards, and procedures.

Team Leadership:

• Lead, mentor, and manage junior software development team members, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Responsible for career development and performance management of junior software development team members.

Project Delivery:

• Execute software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
• Develop solutions using TDD methodology.
• Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
• Allocate appropriate resources to ensure that projects are completed within committed time and budget and are integrated with other software applications.
• Architecture and Development: Guide the design principles, and development processes to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions, collaborating with other senior leads.
• Operational Efficiency: Implement DevSecOps to streamline processes, tools, and workflows to optimize engineering operations and enhance productivity.

Requirements

Experience:

• Proven experience (7 years) in a senior role within software development for commercial software products, with a strong technical background.
• Technical Acumen: Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, source code management strategies, design patterns, DevSecOps, automation, and best practices. Ability to translate non-functional requirements such as availability, flexibility, stability, ease of maintenance and security.
• Technologies covered: Experience of implementing software using ReactNative framework, TypeScript, web based and desktop clients, application servers, relational and non-relational databases, testing strategies.
• Leadership Skills: Good leadership, mentoring, and communication skills to guide and inspire junior technical team members.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Global and regulatory landscapes: Understanding and experience of working practices across multiple geographies. Experience with regional nuances such as tax rules, regulatory interfaces, multi-currency, multi-language etc is an advantage.
• Aware of the concrete effects of architectural decisions – specifically microservice architecture – at the code level, in collaboration with other team members.

Desirable

• Experience of using Jira