Senior Engineer (Digital Registry Team)

What is the opportunity?

We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer to join our team, within the Managed Funds Administration business, responsible for our investment management and fund administration, used primarily by investors and financial advisers. This is a key role in enabling the successful execution of our Digital Strategy to become an industry-leading Fund Administration service. You will help build and manage products that solve key problems in the managed fund investment space by championing and demonstrating modern software engineering principles and practices, promoting a Product-led mindset and role modeling critical-thinking and maturity within and outside your team.

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute to delivering key strategic product and technology roadmap initiatives.
• Create high quality and scalable software and influence others to do the same.
• Contributes to developing and improving Digital Registry team’s engineering standards and frameworks.
• Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of software engineering best practices within and outside the team.
• Deeply care about Customer problems and technical excellence.
• Proactively participates in team’s Discovery and Refinement activities and feels comfortable leading technical design and estimation workshops.
• Effectively identifies opportunities to remove waste and automate manual processes.

Role Responsibilities:

Engineering

• Driving force for technical excellence in team.
• Comfortable leading / driving solution design workshops.
• Keen to deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems.
• Takes ownership of problems and doesn’t rest until the most efficient solutions are found.
• Familiar with DevOps concepts and keen to share his/her experience with others.

Delivery

• Familiar with Agile / Lean ways of working, and how to deliver value to customers faster and more efficiently.
• Drives and contributes to Continuous Improvement initiatives.

Product

• Shows curiosity about the problem-space, asks great questions to create more clarity.
• Demonstrates Customer empathy.
• Deep thinker, never satisfied with the first answer received.

People

• Collaborative problem-solving skills (Huddles/Pair programming).
• Not afraid to provide and request feedback from others.
• Genuinely curious, keen learner and understands that Software delivery is a team sport.

Skills and Competencies:

• Demonstrated experience of front and back-end development skills and technologies including 1 or more of the following:
  • React / Typescript / JavaScript / CSS
  • Java / Kotlin / Spring Boot
• Expert in building web applications using AWS services / technologies.
• Experience with relational and non-relational DBs.
• Experience with AWS and container architectures including Kubernetes highly desired.
• Experience with Message broker technologies (e.g. AWS SQS) and streaming process platforms (e.g. Kafka).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals – OO and/or functional programming, Design Patterns and Domain Driven Design.
• Demonstrated experience in Microservice and Micro-Frontend Architectures.
• Test automation experience, including Unit, Integration and End-to-End UI automation.
• Experienced with modern software tooling such as CI/CD platforms (e.g. Jenkins), Github, Datadog, code scanning tools such as Sonarqube.
• Solid understanding of the Agile Methodology and working experience in Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience in utilizing Continuous Delivery concepts to deliver software into Production environments.
• We strongly encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every single requirement of this role.

Education and qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent industry experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer).
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in similar role(s).

Key behaviors:

• Instils Trust – contribute to building a safe learning environment in the business where the team can be listened to and understood.
• Collaborate – Must be able to work in a co-operative manner with both internal and external teams and take all views and interests into account when formulating outcomes.
• Ensure Accountability – Must take ownership of their assigned responsibilities and the outcomes generated and pursued.
• Customer Focus – Must have empathy for Customer problems, which will help him/her to match technical solutions to business and customer needs.
• Communicate Effectively – Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently, both in written and verbal forms, across all levels of an organization and all sizes of groups. Must also be able to listen to others and evidence that they have understood the needs communicated appropriately.
• Grow and develop – be committed to growing the next generation of Seniors around them. Become a force multiplier and an enabler.
• Continuous Learning & Improvement mindset – Continually seek opportunities for improvement – personal & organizational -, believe that things can better, have the desire and willingness to set aspiring goals and commitment to see it through to completion.