Technical Development Lead, Cards (Microservices, JAVA development)

Responsibilities:

Application Development & Delivery:

• Lead development and implementation Cards related applications with overall accountability ensuring product deliveries are timely and with good quality.
• Partner with System Analyst & subject matter experts to understand and implement functional and technical requirements
• Provide systems input to specification phase (e.g., effort estimates, high-level delivery plan) based on impact assessment (e.g., function points)
• Partner with Architects, Security and System Analysts to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards. Have a hands-on approach to ensure that the application teams build the enhancements according to the solution plan
• Drive platform modernization initiatives in collaboration with Architecture, Risk, and Infrastructure teams.
• Partner with Test Manager to ensure completion of SIT, UAT, performance / load testing and application security testing with quality results
• Work with Security to facilitate completion of penetration testing and remediation of findings in accordance with Mitigation Plan
• Prepare and manage technical implementation plan across application teams
• Coordinate technical implementation activities across application teams to ensure non-event production cutover and adequate post implementation support
• Escalate issues that impact project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions
• Work with vendor to ensure product deliveries are timely and of good quality.
• Manage budgets coming from different projects.
• Ensure project documentation is done up in accordance with bank standards

DevOps & Technical Governance:

• Champion CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Ensure compliance with patching, vulnerability remediation, and security standards.
• Manage deployments and change control processes.

Incident & Problem Management:

• Provide technical leadership during major incidents.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
• Collaborate with support teams for smooth production transitions.

Team & Stakeholder Management:

• Lead high-performing teams across onshore and offshore locations.
• Mentor team members and foster technical excellence.
• Collaborate with business units, vendors, and compliance teams to align delivery with strategic goals.

Operational Excellence:

• Drive continuous improvement across development and delivery processes.
• Maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, and runbooks.
• Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance tuning

Requirements:

• Delivery, Project, Stakeholder & Vendor Management experience, & Technical Delivery Leadership
• Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience
• Strong experience in Cards & Payments domain (Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Transaction Processing, Authorization, Settlement).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Maven, Gradle, and SonarQube.