Job Description

About the Role
We are looking for an engineering Chapter Lead for the On premises Tribe.

As Chapter Lead, you have the opportunity to build and maintain a team of great software engineers. You will be responsible for the staffing of your chapter, act as a coach, building and developing your chapter members, understanding and identifying their development needs as well as organizing the resource allocation of chapter members to squads and orchestrate the performance of the chapter.

In the agile context, you will also participate as 'hands-on' squad member to contribute to the success of a squad as well as to retain and grow your people manager as well as technical expertise

What to expect:
You are an ambassador of the agile culture. With the following strong emphasis for this role:

• You lead by example, are an inspiration and you show energy & passion.
• You achieve results by empowering and giving people's responsibility, but at the same time you know how to "excite", challenge and keep the team on their toes .
• You stimulate people to really perform at their best.
• Experience and knowledge / Affinity.
• Recognized as subject matter expert .
• Proven experience in leading, coaching and mentoring technical staff
• Passionate about people management and people development
• Open-minded and curious about technology.
• Extensive experience of working in environments involving software engineering .
• Customer oriented background that comprises both solid business context as well as high level understanding of high-quality technical product deliver.

Acting as a Chapter Lead

• As a Chapter Lead, you are responsible to hire, coach, and motivate team members of your chapter in order to build a group of talented software engineers that can deliver value in their squads. This activity is expected to take up to 50% of your time and includes:
• Select and recruit squad members with skills to meet projected demand and to have qualified, competent and motivated chapter members.
• Work with the Product Owners and the Engineering Lead to organise the chapter member assignment in squads.
• Coach chapter members on best practices and software design patterns to use in their respective products.
• Ensure transversal consistency of knowledge (e.g. C++, Java, Python, PLSQL, Integrator), create a culture of excellence and continuous learning and ensures professional growth of members
• Set up knowledge sharing between chapter members and participate in cross-tribe knowledge sharing.
• Develop and design and development programs to fill identified gaps.
• Maintain deep understanding of current technology, database management, programming practices, and future trends through ongoing education, conference attendance and industry press.
• Build a network within and outside the Chapter, maintains relationships with all relevant stakeholders and makes sure they are consulted and informed when needed.
• Ensure chapter members understand the relevant IT policies and standards to apply in their domain
• Set annual objectives and conduct mid-year review and year-end performance appraisal of chapter members
• Orchestrate the feedback collection from Product Owner, Agile Coach, and stakeholders to assess development needs and agree on skills development goals for chapter members
• Perform administrative approvals for squad members (e.g. Holiday requests, Travel requests and expense reports)

Acting as a squad member

• As a squad member, you also contribute to a squad (50% of time).
• Illustrative for engineering CL's, Your individual contribution can encompass following activities (but not limited to) :Application design, coding and peer code review; testing and test automation, Technical POCs ; feasibility study including report; Production & Customer Support case investigations; Implement and maintain DevOps enablers : CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins ...; Functional & non-functional testing, System integration, Help with COTS upgrades, data model design, sizing and performance analysis, benchmarking (define test case, execution, reporting); Security review (e.g. GSR), design and implementation (e.g. config of certificates, encryption ...) - liaising with GS; Audit item and security risk follow up and Controls/compliance implementation/remediation

About the product

• As a squad member, you will be working in the squad building and maintaining PAG and DMC, which are critical components in AU-NPP, the Australian New Payment Platform. AU-NPP is designed to support a 24/7 modern, digital economy. It provides a fast, flexible and data-rich payments system that enables Australian consumers, businesses and government agencies to make real-time data rich payments between accounts at participating Australian financial institutions. Payment Gateway (PAG) is developed in Java and Spring Boot, and Domestic Messaging Channel (DMC) is developed in C++ .

What will make you successful:

• The candidate is expected to be expert in Java development and the usage of the supporting tools / OS'es.
• Experience working on applications which are deployed at customers' premises is a plus.
• Familiar with SQL and database
• Familiar with Agile and DevOps practices
• C++, SQL, knowledge of CI/CD tools & processes, Docker, git, and BitBucket is a plus
• Fluent in English (spoken & written)
• University degree in computer science or related field. Or equivalent work experience.

You may like to know the team better by knowing the people in the team. Review

LinkedIn profile of the people on the list below :
Jan Joostens, Associate Manager Information Technology, On-Premises
Pavitra RK , Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist APAC (Recruitment Partner to this role)

What we offer

We put you in control of career
We give you a competitive package
We help you perform at your best
We help you make a difference
We give you the freedom to be yourself

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals - like you - with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. An environment in which everyone's voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion , or veteran/military status.