Software Lead Director (Bank, Permanent)

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure code quality, scalability, maintainability, performance, and adherence to coding standards across internal and vendor teams.

• Conduct code reviews and audits, identify technical debt, and recommend remediation strategies.

• Review and validate low-level designs, including class diagrams, sequence diagrams, API contracts, database schemas, and ER diagrams.

• Govern architecture compliance and ensure implementations align with approved frameworks, patterns, and solution architecture standards.

• Define and oversee source code management practices, including branching, merging, baselining, version control, and release management.

• Monitor and enforce CI/CD pipeline adoption, automation standards, and development best practices.

• Proactively identify technical risks and recommend mitigation plans to improve system quality and stability.

• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, technical guidance, and support for development teams.

• Ensure application performance, security, regulatory compliance, and proper documentation of architecture and design decisions.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, QA teams, vendors, and IT planning teams to deliver web and mobile channel applications aligned with business and enterprise architecture objectives.

Key Requirements

• Approximately 10+ years of experience delivering IT solutions within financial institutions.

• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, gRPC, and microservices architecture for high-volume applications.

• Proven experience developing and securing internet-facing web and mobile applications, including SSO, OIDC, SAML, MFA, SPA architectures, and OWASP standards.

• Deep knowledge of integration technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ/RabbitMQ, APIs, and secure file-based/system integrations.

• Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, Maven, GitOps/ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployment models.

• Strong understanding of Oracle, NoSQL databases, ElasticSearch, and data formats/protocols including JSON, XML, Protobuf, and OpenAPI.

• Exposure to banking, payments, cash management, or related financial services domains, with strong enterprise architecture and governance knowledge.

Industry: Bank

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