Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Act as the technical focal point for application delivery, working closely with delivery vendors throughout the project lifecycle.
• Review and challenge proposed solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security standards, operational requirements, and project objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to vendor development teams on application architecture, design patterns, coding standards, and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and technical assessments to ensure solution quality, maintainability, security, and performance requirements are met.
• Support functional and non-functional requirement analysis, solution design reviews, and technical impact assessments.
• Work with project managers, architects, infrastructure teams, testing teams, and vendors to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and coordinate resolution of complex application issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Oversee application release planning, deployment activities, and environment readiness.
• Ensure compliance with organizational application development, security, risk, and change management standards.
• Review technical documentation including solution designs, deployment procedures, operational runbooks, interface specifications, and support documentation.
• Support system integration activities involving upstream and downstream applications.
• Participate in production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist in implementation planning, system cutover preparation, and post-implementation stabilization activities.

Qualifications & Experience

. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar domain related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory.

. More than 10 years experience in developing and delivering global/regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company.

. Minimum 5 years of experience as a Technical Lead, Solution Architect, or Lead Engineer.

. Experience in banking or financial services, preferably with customer onboarding domain
Technical Competencies

• Experience with workflow and business automation platforms such as jBPM, Kogito, and Drools.
• Familiarity with BPMN 2.0 concepts and process modelling using bpmn.io.
• Strong experience in Java enterprise application development and technical solution delivery.
• Deep understanding of Spring Boot and microservices architecture.
• Good understanding of Spring Batch and enterprise batch processing concepts.
• Experience conducting code reviews and providing technical governance for development teams.
• Experience working with external vendors and managing technical delivery outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of application architecture, integration patterns, API design, and distributed systems.
• Experience troubleshooting complex application, integration, and performance issues.
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience with Linux.
• Good understanding of networking concepts, infrastructure architecture, and application security principles.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Preferred / Advantageous Skills

• Experience in reviewing or governing event-driven and microservices-based architectures.
• Experience with Red Hat JBoss EAP and IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience with DevSecOps toolchains such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, and Nexus.
• Experience with Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Exposure to containerized and cloud-native application platforms