Technology Lead, Automation (Global Markets Technology)

Job Description

• To scope, plan, design and deliver end to end solutions against required standards and timelines. To oversee and participate in technical solutions delivery, interpreting business requirements, defining technical tasks, engineer quality software, performing end to end testing and supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues.
• To lead, manage and mentor Software-; Quality Engineers across identified delivery teams to build and improve Engineering capability.
• Accountable for end to end delivery of all technical solution delivery (engineering aspects) in the identified delivery teams(3 to 5 teams, 15 to 25 resources), adhering to set standards, practices and quality expectations
• Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
• Build, code and review user and system interfaces including menus, screen dialogues, inputs, reports, validation and error correction, processing rules, access, security, audit controls, recovery routines and contingency procedures to ensure they are as per agreed specification. Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications for production deployment.
• Construct, interpret and execute end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems. Prepare test cases for unit testing purposes and review test cases as produced by other developers for unit testing purposes as required.
• Find ways to improve flow and teams' delivery, removing blockers and ensuring value through the improvement of quality of deliverables. Direct and participate in resolution of incidents and failures, putting in place remediation actions and ensuring appropriate technical support.

Qualifications

• Degree: Information Technology

Additional Information

Experience Required: Software Engineering

• 5-7 years: Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 1-2 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts
• 8-10 years: Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Embracing Change
• Interpreting Data

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)