Senior Development Manager

Job Description

The Senior Delivery Manager will be a key member of Trade IT Development team and responsible for managing Agile Development teams and ensuring delivery of high-quality software that meets functional and non-functional requirements. The role holder will form a key part of a fast-paced, ambitious, delivery programme. Software Delivery
• Represent the team to management and management to the team.
• Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure a healthy, refined Product Backlog for the team.
• Responsible for teaching and coaching Scrum values and practices.
• 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.
• Assist the Product Owner in shielding the team from external interferences.
• 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.
• Schedule and facilitate Sprint and Release Planning meetings.
• Primarily a facilitative, servant leader and a Scrum process coach.
• Monitor Sprint tasks to ensure success but does not create or assign tasks (the team creates and assigns tasks).
• Regularly and physically meets with the team members.
People Management
• Coordinate with resources and teams across different locations.
• Good Stakeholder Management Skills.
• Responsible for capability development of the team/ unit.
• Responsible for conducting appraisals, feedback & handling work allocations for direct reports & reviewing the same for indirect reports.
• Responsible for managing the career growth, motivation & retention for the assigned group.
Risk Management
• Continuous management of the Trade Application System risks.
• 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.
Governance
• Ensure adherence to Systems Development Framework and control processes.
• Ensure delivery of all software artefacts.
People Management
• Coordinate across different teams and locations.
• Capability development of the team/ unit.
• Conducting appraisals, feedback & handling work allocations for direct reports & reviewing the same for indirect reports.
• Managing the career growth, motivation & retention for team members.
Key Stakeholders
• Business and Operations (Product Owners)
• Trade IT Team
• Interface IT Teams
• Technology Services Teams
• Production Support Teams
Our Ideal Candidate Educational Qualification/Certification
• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• JAVA Certification preferred
Mandatory Skills
• Experience in managing Agile Delivery Teams.
• Latest technology architectures and design Micro services, Web and Mobile applications.
• Cloud-Native application deployments and Containers (Docker).
• Exceptional troubleshooting and investigative skills. In possession of a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• The ability to manage competing priorities from a variety of stakeholders.
• Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
• Should have participated in, and be familiar with, SDLC and Agile (Scrum) project methodologies.
Proficiency in
• Micro-services development using Springboot.
• Technical Stack: Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML.
• Technical Tools: Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij IDEA.
Optional Skills
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs.
• Experience in event driven architectures (CQRS and SAGA patterns).
• Build Tools (Gulp, and webpack), Jenkins, Docker, Automation, Bash, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kibana.
Prior Experience
• Relevant experience of 10+ years
• Banking/FinTech experience preferred
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Latest technology architectures and design Micro services, Web and Mobile applications
• Cloud-Native application deployments and Containers (Docker)
• Micro-services development using Springboot
• Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML
• Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij IDEA
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