Job Description Summary

Level 5 will have all traits from Level 4 but sometimes will lead technical development on product/team/domain level. They may start taking responsibility for overall tech delivery app ownership alongside their own software engineering output. They are experts of parts of the domain and technology used.

Job Description

Position: Lead Software Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Years of experience: 12 - 15 years

Responsibilities

- Collaborating with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Solution Architects Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once agreed, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues dependencies.
- You ll provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.
- Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
- Technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
- Leverage industry best-practise, frameworks, standards policies in creating opportunities value for our customers.
- Supplies critical technical feedback to the financial investment process in order to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.
- Sets guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
- Provide oversight champion built in quality, decoupled modernised architectures.
- Support Product Owners Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options recommendations on action planning continuously ever-greening solutions/systems within the Platform.
- Support Product Owners Engineering Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap.




- Strong technical skills with a good hands-on and working knowledge of microservice design patterns, containerised applications, infrastructure as code in containerised environments, embedding Dev Sec Ops principles to support delivery at scale and designing solutions at scale.
- Help develop our passionate people promote the architecture subject area through mentoring, coaching and participation in Agile ceremonies.

Could this be the right fit for me

We need a leader in Solution Architecture who understands the challenges of modern architecture.

- You ll build a compelling strategic vision and will understand a wide array of technology implications including people and process, bringing this to your comprehensive view of design.
- Youll ideally have previous career experience in software or infrastructure engineering and will be well placed to define and sell your vision for Engineers, Architects, and Product Owners alike.
- You must be a keen and comfortable communicator who is happy working with a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues.
- You would be able to produce high quality documentation tailored to the audience which would include senior stakeholders. As a role that can require demanding delivery timeframes, you will need to be self-organised and be able to proactively prioritise your time.

If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused on making a difference. Apply today, we d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

- Were in search of someone who,
- Thrives in acquiring applying findings to create customer business value.
- Has experiences working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
- Is excited at the prospect of changing the status quo, inspiring change with new insights, ideas and encouraging experimentations or market research.
- Has established systems engineering or solution architecture experience appreciation of software engineering methods such as Behaviour Test Driven Development.
- Enjoys communicating influencing collaborators with little or no technical knowledge, influencing their thinking on the art of the possible through technology.
- Can identify appropriate project, architecture,



service or risk management methodologies that enable customer value realisation.
- Is excited to translate wide-ranging technology requirements into relevant solutions.
- Is well averse in defining solutions using Agile, Emergent Intentional architecture methods.
- Has substantive experiences defining architectural runways or solution architecture roadmaps for inclusive systems which span adaptive infrastructure domains at Digital-scale.
- Has established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.
- Holds proficient experiences leading activities associated with Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
- Has appreciation for Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Software patterns or similar.
- Understands how where third party products could be appropriate, knowledge of technology purchasing processes best practise.
- Be a technical leader both within your team and outside, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers as appropriate.
- Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Labs, through defining a strategy and designing solutions to deliver our target cloud architecture.
- Capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.
- Strong architecture skills with a good working knowledge of microservice design patterns, containerised applications, infrastructure as code in containerised environments, embedding DevOps principles to support delivery at scale and designing solutions at scale.

Heres where youll make a difference

- Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Group technology landscape, ensuring value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role driving the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.
- Our continued commitment to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.
- Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means youll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
- Were focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together.

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