Engineering Lead (BFSI)

Surge Global is a digital consultancy that leverages marketing, data, and technology to help businesses grow. As Sri Lanka’s leading digital firm, we employ the best content, creative, design, and engineering talent the country has to offer.

Embracing a culture of transparency and equality in the workplace, we’ve built an environment that helps Sri Lanka’s best marketing and creative talent thrive. Our team approaches complex, multivariate challenges with an open mind and a strong willingness to continuously test, learn, and innovate.

With our headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we support and scale startups to Fortune 500 companies across the United States, Europe, Australia, Middle East, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Sri Lanka.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering responsibility of projects, ensuring timelines, scope, and quality standards are met.
• Drive delivery of digital banking platforms, payment systems, core banking integrations, and customer-facing financial applications.
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, secure SDLC, and banking compliance standards (e.g., auditability, traceability, data protection).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, goals, and delivery roadmaps.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risks, dependencies, and blockers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead integration initiatives with core banking systems (e.g., Temenos, Finacle, Flexcube), payment gateways, and third-party financial services via APIs and middleware.
• Provide technical oversight on architecture, design, tools driving the Engineering Excellence ensuring greater quality, scalability , maintainability and reliability of the applications.
• Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing clear and consistent updates on progress and risks.
• Drive resource planning, team allocation, and workload management.
• Track and report on delivery metrics, team performance, and project health.
• Lead, mentor, and manage engineering teams to drive high performance and accountability.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6-10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least , 2-3 years in a leadership/delivery role (Preferred within banking, fintech, or BFSI domains).
• Proven experience managing end-to-end complex technical projects.
• Strong understanding of agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Solid technical background in software development, architecture, and system design.
• Demonstrated experience in team leadership, coaching, and performance management.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Familiarity with banking regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR, local central bank regulations, audit requirements).
• Ability to balance technical decision-making with delivery priorities.
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Strong understanding of core banking ecosystems and integration patterns (API-led, ESB, microservices, event-driven architectures).
• Experience working with core banking platforms such as Temenos, Finacle, Flexcube, or similar systems is highly desirable.
• Candidates with Fintec/BFS experience will be given priority.

Note: Employees will be transitioned to the client company upon completing three years at Surge