Lead Software Developer
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Job Description
What You’ll Do
As part of our Digital Payments technology domain, you’ll:
- Lead Agile-focused software development teams to help our organization drive towards emerging technologies. While primarily providing hands-on development work, you’ll also mentor junior-level software developers.
- Leverage your leadership skills to help shape our business and technology outcomes to meet customer and partner needs.
- Create and break-down product/platform efforts into successful execution-ready plans.
- Contribute to the developer experience by leveraging the latest industry technologies to enhance current solution patterns and define new ones.
- Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions that meet business needs.
- Works on more complex, less clearly-defined software projects under limited supervision. Applies a full understanding of established systems software development principles and best practices to analyze complex issues. Updates or modifies working methods in their own role/work area without the benefit of defined procedures.
- Lead Software Engineers are expected to have a high level of knowledge of domain technologies, platforms and systems software development principles and best practices to independently resolve problems and make major changes to existing processes/systems.
How You’ll Do It
- Maintain application software and systems.
- Test and mitigate risks for all projects and releases
- Ensure quality code is delivered through continuous integration, development, and testing.
- Perform technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications.
- Deliver technology solutions that support business goals.
- Partner with product owners to understand business requirements, evaluate features, and translate application specifications into workable technical solutions.
- Support technical initiatives and provide team with input into best practices.
- Oversee and review development activities of highly-complex global teams, consisting of both full-time staff and contractors.
- Provide leadership and guidance to junior-level software developers to enhance their growth and help them achieve objectives.
- Modifies existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware,, upgrade interfaces, and improve performance.
- Develops and directs software system testing and validation procedures.
- Leads software programming and the development of technical documentation
- Consults with the business on project status, proposals, technical issues, software design, and maintenance.
- Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plan installations of a new systems and modifications to existing systems
- Works autonomously and with Associate/Software engineers to support and maintain products the team is responsible for by ensuring availability of all tools and completing customer requests
- Actively participates in agile team and ceremonies.
- Works with other product teams to complete project activities, such as Infrastructure, Architecture and Database teams.
- Breaks down complex requirements into workable technical solutions for Associate/Software Engineers
- Assist in the evaluation of new product tools and maintaining current levels of existing tools
- Ensures support documentation is up to date and communicated to entire team
- Adheres to regulatory, PDP, Change Management and Internet Department processes and standards, ensuring all projects are compliant.
- Document software and perform related duties as assigned or requested.
- Actively contribute to best practices to support a strong software architecture.
- Follows proper handling of sensitive data per security guidelines.
- Identifies and executes opportunities to leverage agile/iterative/lean processes to deliver projects faster.
- Incorporates and supports new technology/frameworks to support our continuous integration efforts.
- Gathers requirements and builds automation/monitoring workflows to eliminate manual work and ensure availability of all applications
- Actively engages in continuous professional development plan
Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology
- 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related
- In lieu of degree, 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization
- Time spent working for an organization in either the financial services or technology space
- 4 years of Tandem HP-NonStop development experience, including Application UI, workflows, notifications, SLAs and Service Catalog forms
- Experience with design, development, deployment, and maintenance of software using TAL, pTAL, COBOL and Pathways
- Ability to build or modify scripts using TACL and ENFORM
- Experience with processing debit card payments
- Experience in Connex switch development and maintenance
- Good understanding of ISO8583 message format
- Experience in using Paragon, C2P or similar testing tools
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced oral, written and presentation communications including the ability to present technical information in a way that non-technical audiences will understand
- Experience with multiple ServiceNow platform products desired
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies
- Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
- Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
- Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
- Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
- Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
- Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
- Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
- Build secure web applications with user authentication
- Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
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