Transaction Banking - London - Vice President - Software Engineering (Basé à London)

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Transaction Banking, a business unit within Platform Solutions, aims to provide comprehensive cash management solutions for corporations. Transaction Banking combines the strength and heritage of a 150-year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Our goal is to provide the best client experience. Through the use of modern technologies centered on data and analytics, we provide customers with powerful tools that are grounded in value, transparency and simplicity to improve cash flow management efficiency.

Financial Risk Engineering is a global team with presence in New York, London, Bengaluru and Dallas. We are responsible for the technical design and development of systems that protect the firm and our clients from Financial Crime including real time Fraud prevention and compliance with global Sanctions and regulatory requirements, using existing and emerging technologies.

In this role you will be responsible for leading the team in London. As a Senior Developer / Architect you will be expected to drive the design of critical components and shape our strategic vision for a variety of next-gen platforms that will protect the firm and our clients from Financial Crime, focusing on code quality, automation and testability. You will have the opportunity to understand our product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within our global team. You will be responsible for mentoring and developing junior talent. Our flat structure requires and enables team members to evolve through the entire spectrum of the software life-cycle and closely collaborate with product owners, business and operations users. You must have a proficient understanding of software development concepts. A good understanding of the Cloud and Container concepts is a plus. You will also be responsible to develop easy to support software and liaise with our SRE team to factor in their requirements. We are looking for someone with lots of energy that enjoys engineering challenges and has a passion to deliver high quality technology solutions and is able to operate in a highly fluid, rapidly changing environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Develop full stack applications with due consideration to security, design, validation and SDLC framework
• Contribute to shaping the strategic vision of our Fraud screening platform involving data streaming and machine learning technologies
• Collaborate with product managers, business operations, engineers to define product requirements and objectives
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management
• Develop resilient, scalable and secure modules using cloud native services
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Update and maintain documentation for team processes, best practices and software runbooks
• Must be passionate about technology and engineering
• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience using a modern programming language (preferably Java)
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver complex products with multiple stakeholders
• Prior experience with working on high availability, mission critical systems
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving programming or systems engineering.
• Proficiency in development with Java, springboot, REST APIs
• Experience with microservice architectures (SOA)
• Experience engineering solutions with distributed tracing, Performance testing, Authentication, Authorization
• Proficiency with algorithms, data structures and software design
• Experience with UNIX operating systems internals, infrastructure as code-Terraform and networking
• Proven to work independently in a fast paced and often multi-direction work environment
• Team oriented, strong interpersonal and communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with development and design of distributed systems
• Experience in financial services specifically corporate cash management desirable
• Experience with AWS services - Amazon MSK/Apache kafka, ECS, S3, IAM, AWS XRay
• Basic knowledge of data science and machine learning is preferable but not essential

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