Technical Specialist

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and hands-on Technical Team Lead for the CLFR (Cash & Liquidity) Platform. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership, drive solutioning and delivery, mentor engineers, and work closely with business stakeholders, architects, platform teams, and operations teams. The role requires a strong delivery mindset, ownership, and the ability to contribute directly to development while guiding the team towards successful milestone delivery.

10+ years of overall software engineering experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of engineers, driving technical excellence and delivery ownership.
• Drive solution architecture discussions, low-level design (LLD), and implementation of scalable, resilient, cloud-native solutions.
• Work hands-on with the team on development, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production support.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, platform teams, and security teams.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, secure coding practices, and engineering best practices.
• Drive sprint planning, estimation, milestone delivery, risk mitigation, and technical governance.
• Promote automation, DevOps culture, and AI-assisted engineering practices across the team.
• Support production readiness, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Strong hands-on experience with Java 21+ and Spring Boot.
• Strong expertise in SQL, database design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing and developing scalable distributed enterprise applications and microservices.
• Strong understanding of Azure Cloud services and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines, including CI/CD automation, deployment strategies, and release management.
• Strong understanding and practical usage of GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted software engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native deployments.
• Experience with Blue-Green Deployments, rolling upgrades, and zero-downtime release strategies.
• Good understanding of Managed Identity, authentication, authorization, and cloud security principles.
• Strong knowledge of application and platform security practices, including
• Experience with monitoring, observability, logging, troubleshooting, and production support.

Skill Requirements

Front-End Expectations

• Good understanding of modern Single Page Application (SPA) architectures and design principles.
• Working knowledge of Angular, React, and similar modern front-end frameworks.
• Understanding of front-end integration patterns and full-stack solution design.

Ability to collaborate effectively with front-end teams and contribute to end-to-end solution architecture

Desired Profile

• Strong solutioning capability with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Proven track record of leading engineering teams while remaining technically hands-on.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to independently drive complex deliverables from design through production deployment.
• Strong coaching and mentoring mindset with a willingness to work alongside the team to achieve milestones.
• Ability to drive engineering quality, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Experience in financial services, cash management, liquidity management, payments, or transaction processing platforms is highly desirable.

Other Requirements

• Demonstrated experience delivering cloud-native solutions in an Agile environment.