Lead Product Engineer

SUMMARY:

We are currently seeking a Lead Product Engineer for one of our esteemed clients in the banking industry. This is a fantastic opportunity for a 6-month rolling employment contract.
Join a dynamic team and make a significant impact in the banking sector!

POSITION INFO:

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title: Lead Product Engineer
Employment Type: 6 months Contract, Hybrid
Work Location: Johannesburg, CBD


JOB CONTEXT:

Are you ready to take on an exciting challenge that impacts the international banking community? We’re looking for a talented individual to be our lead our Product Engineer. You will develop customized solutions tailored to our unique needs, drive our development goals in a timely and cost-effective manner, and collaborate with a dynamic team to ensure successful project execution.


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:


DevOps:

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve Complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions.
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process.
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions.
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven /cross domain environment.
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions.
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins /Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.).
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques.
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines.
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages,containerization etc.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization.

• Coach & mentor other engineers.
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization.
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team.
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption).

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment).
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk /governance frameworks.
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals).
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

• 5+ years of enterprise level experience in IT

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Solid troubleshooting skills.
• Enterprise experience in maintaining supporting Postgres.
• Solid skills in SQL.
• Strong Development skills (Springboot).
• Configuring builds and deployments on CI/CD tools (Jenkins).
• Willingness to solve DevOps/Support/Maintenance problems Git.
• Familiarity with general monitoring principles and tools (Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, ELK stack).
• Agile Methodology.
• Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Github, Service Desk).
• Containerization (Docker) plus orchestration (Kubernetes or Rancher, OpenShift).
• Good written and spoken English.
• Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File, Kafka).
• Docker Knowledge.
• Strong Java Script Skils (Angular, React).
• UX design.
• Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Java, Angularring Boot, and Angular.

• Compensation will be determined based on qualifications, applicable banking experience, and previous earnings.