The Opportunity
- Adecco is partnering with one of the most well-established and respected financial institution with a strong track record of success.
- They have a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, constantly looking for ways to improve their services and offerings.
Job Responsibilities
- As the leader of team (of 15-20 team members comprising tech and domain experts) – Supervise and oversee PAS/PGA Team
- Oversee the acquisition and development of software systems
- Plan, organize and prioritize the work assigned to the team in order to meet committed deadlines and other agreed milestones
- Identify, evaluate and report issues and risks to ensure corrective and/or preventive measures are timely taken.
- Ensure team’s activities are in adherence to bank’s standards and norms.
- Ensure the processes applied are in adherence to the Section operational model.
- Actively participate/contribute to GIT Paris/ISAP governance for his/her domain.
- Continuously monitor the satisfaction level of the customers and put efforts to maintain and improve it.
- Coordinate with the vendor and prepare releases.
- Monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organization
- Continuously monitor the quality of the deliveries and the quality of service.
- Evaluate staff knowledge & skills and recommend training.
- Review and conduct appraisals for the team members.
- Facilitate staff mobility and career development.
- Human capital Management - recruitment, career progression planning, Team Engagement and motivation, Coaching & Mentoring.
- Implement standard DevOps practices including test automation, efficient CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code and End to End Observability kind of Software Factory best practices.
- Incorporate Continuous improvement process and culture on projects management & implementations, run and cost/budget.
- Supervises and follow-up Level 3 Support Activities when the Global Support Team (L1&L2) is in need of system expertise.
- Initiate and drive technical transformation / innovation projects to ensure that applications / systems will be able to cope with market and business demands.
- Work closely with domain and Enterprise Architects & Business users in the implementations of all the local Payment Engines and their features including regulatory and compliance landscape.
Organize and supervise all activities of CCS/PAS/ PGA team
- Report functionally to manager of GIT/ISAP/CCS/PAS Section
- Ensure proper ramp-up and ramp-down of the team as per the Bank requirement
- Manage budget and capacity allocation according to priorities communicated by functional manager
Act as Tech Lead/Architect advisor for the team for technical rework and obsolesce projects
- Oversee the development of solutions and provide technical expertise on the development of software and platform features
- Ensure the applications adhere to the modern standards
- Ensure applications are phased out from legacy tech and moved to new tech
- Ensure modern dev-sec-ops standards are implemented in all the project/application build lifecycle
Design, implement, test, deploy, support and maintain applications under responsibility of PGA team
- Ensure high-quality technical and functional design of the application stack.
- Ensure a smooth end-to-end implementation of the PGA modules in charge using GIT best practices as well as overall GIT quality framework
- Ensure the proper UAT and production support of the modules delivered
- Identify, evaluate and report risks and issues to ensure corrective and/or preventive measures are timely taken
Coordinate with other development teams of all the program initiatives in order to ensure consistency across projects and modules of different programs the PGA systems are engaged with.
- Coordinate with other development teams in order to optimise the global roadmap and associated constraints
- Ensure the good usage of chapters in order to smoothly circulate the information inside and outside the team.
- Coordinate with the integration team in order to align strictly the development with the product owner’s priorities.
Manage and improve team capabilities
- Ensure cohesion and commitment of the team on its assigned mission.
- Evaluate staff members’ skill/knowledge and recommend training plan, organize staff mobility and staff career development as needed by PGA Projects.
- Make sure team members observe and respect the Bank’s code of conduct and comply with Bank policies.
- Organize and perform coaching to the team members to ensure continuous improvement.
Implement and refine project management processes in order to ensure projects success
- Coordinate with program management in order to ensure an optimal usage of program methodology.
- Propose and implement local tooling/processes improvement when necessary.
Perform Team Manager duties
- Manage the team setup by identifying hiring needs and staffing with right profiles
- Perform People management duties such as Career management, HR development and staff motivation.
Job Qualification
At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties:
Computer Science / Information Technology / Programming & Systems Analysis / Science (Computer Studies)
Profile:
- You are solving problems and building solutions
- You’re self-motivated and have demonstrated track record of driving Innovations in Program and Team management
- You’re comfortable leading tribe of engineers by example and a strong advocate of latest software engineering best practices
- You understand the importance of constructive feedback nurturing an inclusive engineering environment, championing engineering fundamentals and providing clarity and mentorship for team members to grow.
- You have good background of understanding the technology implementations in Banks / Financial Institutions.
- You have worked one or more Industry Standard Payment engines and cash product solutions (vendor or in-house) and migrate them to other new payment engine products when required.
- You have exposure to EMEA & Asia, specifically to SEPA, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, China cross border, Instant and Mass Payments processing and their clearing mechanism interfacing systems.
- You have the abilities to take up the above outlined responsibilities and meet the expectations of the management team.
Skills:
- A minimum education of Bachelor’s degree in Computer science / Information systems.
- 12-15 years of overall IT experience with 5 years of experience in delivery of enterprise scale critical systems projects
- Minimum 3 years of Team and People management practices.
- Excellent program/project delivery experience and knowledge about mentoring/guiding the teams involved in technology deliveries using Spring, Spring boot, any public cloud offering (AWS, GCP or Azure), Dockers, Kubernetes, React.Js or Angular.Js, Kafka, Cassandra or MongoDB, Oracle or MS-SQL Server
- Experience in Cash Management and Payment systems solutions.
- Experience in engaging with senior stakeholders and win cases for the team.
- Practices in Agile delivery
- A technical mind-set with great attention to detail
- Good leadership skills
- Team player
- Good time-management skills
- Good interpersonal, communication and skills
Next Step
Click “apply” or send resume to: Tamanna Bilandi [email protected]
EA Licence No.91C2918 | Personnel Registration No. R2096241
