Embedded Banking API Technical Lead

Location:

4910 Tiedeman Road - Brooklyn, Ohio 44144

This role will be involved in Embedded Banking development, system integration, and high availability solutions for the entire payments lifecycle.  As an Embedded Banking Tech Lead, you will be responsible for leading development of Embedded Banking product features and improvement to our processes and interaction from onboarding to support. 

An individual filling this role should be comfortable collaborating with an Agile team, leading discussions with both business and technology partners, and able to clearly articulate possible issues as well as solutions. The Tech Lead is engaged in best practice development initiatives, provides thoughtful leadership, and ability to adapt to ever-changing technology and business environments.

Essential Job Functions:

• Own, oversee, and drive the strategy of the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more components of an environment, application, or platform.
• Independently develops and sets best practices for developing clean, maintainable, testable code for work assigned; performs code reviews for all levels of engineer.
• Drives and architects the overall health, performance, availability and resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Serves as the deep technical expert on the team; owns training program for junior engineers and mentors as one of the go to resource on the team.
• Evaluates and makes decisions on new technologies and how they fit into the product solutions.
• Applies, and proactively prepares to ensure, proper security standards for code development
• Displays outward thinking, develops strategies for the full software development lifecycle of new and emerging technologies and demonstrates the viability; owns recommended technologies, maintain budget constraints, and ensure communication and awareness of implemented technology
• Creates, reviews, and approves technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts with Sr Engineers
• Recommends standards and best practices across the entire bank for technology
• Define high-level application platform architectural guidelines and articulate reasoning and trade-offs for choices to business owners
• Deep understanding of the business; drives, formulates and designs complex solutions to anticipate and meet business needs
• Support off-hours monthly releases as needed.
• Actively participate in various Agile ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Education/Certifications: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required
• Experience: 3+ years of application development experience
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience or understanding of the following software frameworks/concepts:  Java (17+)/SpringBoot, GCP, GKE, Oracle Exadata; Apigee; Ab Initio, Kafka, Mongo DB. 
• Experience or understanding with the following tools & technologies:  Docker, GitLab, GIT, Jira, Confluence
• Proficient in creating and maintaining OpenAPI specs
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery environment, utilizing automated testing, as well as Test Driven Development
• Passion for technology and learning new tools and frameworks based upon project work.
• Experience or mastery of one of the test types is plus: E2E and UI Tests, API and Integration Tests, Performance Tests, Unit Tests (Java and JavaScript), Software Quality Analysis and Linting Tools, Security Scans and Tests, Service Virtualization, Build, Deployment and DevOps Tools.

Competencies and Skills: 

Extensive knowledge of the following:

• Values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

• Approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Value of innovation; ability to create and develop new ideas for answers to work-related problems that improve the performance of the organization.
• Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.
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