Java Technical Lead / Solution Architect - Private Banking Application

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Act as the technical focal point for application delivery, working closely with delivery vendors throughout the project lifecycle.
• ● Review and challenge proposed solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security standards, operational requirements, and project objectives.
• ● Provide technical leadership and guidance to vendor development teams on application architecture, design patterns, coding standards, and best practices.
• ● Conduct code reviews and technical assessments to ensure solution quality, maintainability, security, and performance requirements are met.
• ● Support functional and non-functional requirement analysis, solution design reviews, and technical impact assessments.
• ● Work with project managers, architects, infrastructure teams, testing teams, and vendors to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.
• ● Investigate, troubleshoot, and coordinate resolution of complex application issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• ● Oversee application release planning, deployment activities, and environment readiness.
• ● Ensure compliance with organizational application development, security, risk, and change management standards.
• ● Review technical documentation including solution designs, deployment procedures, operational runbooks, interface specifications, and support documentation.
• ● Support system integration activities involving upstream and downstream applications.
• ● Participate in production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• ● Assist in implementation planning, system cutover preparation, and post-implementation stabilization activities.
• ● Key Requirements
• ● The ideal candidate is a strong technology leader with deep architecture expertise, strong banking domain knowledge, and the ability to bridge business and technology teams. The candidate should be passionate about technology innovation, hands-on when required, and capable of influencing technical decisions across multiple stakeholders.

Requirements

• ● Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar domain related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory.
• ● More than 10 years' experience in developing and delivering global/regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company.
• ● Minimum 5 years of experience as a Technical Lead, Solution Architect, or Lead Engineer.
• ● Experience in banking or financial services, preferably with customer onboarding domain
• ● Technical Competencies
• ● Familiarity with BPMN 2.0 concepts and process modelling using bpmn.io.
• ● Strong experience in Java enterprise application development and technical solution delivery.
• ● Deep understanding of Spring Boot and microservices architecture.
• ● Good understanding of Spring Batch and enterprise batch processing concepts.
• ● Strong knowledge of application architecture, integration patterns, API design, and distributed systems.
• ● Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• ● Good understanding of networking concepts, infrastructure architecture, and application security principles.
• ● Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• ● Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.
• ● Preferred / Advantageous Skills
• ● Exposure to containerized and cloud-native application platforms.