DE-SM-Java-GDS

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Senior Manager Digital Engineering (Banking)

Focus: Java Microservices Cloud-Native Platforms AI enabled Delivery

Role type: Client delivery leadership (hands-on outcome driven)

Role purpose

Lead large-scale engineering delivery for banking clients owning end-to-end execution of Java-based cloud-native microservices platforms. The role is accountable for predictable delivery engineering quality platform resilience and team performance while embedding AI-enabled engineering practices to improve speed quality and operational efficiency.

• Own day-to-day delivery for complex banking programs across build modernization and platform engineering.
• Be accountable for scope timelines quality cost and delivery predictability.
• Lead design and implementation of enterprise-scale Java microservices and APIs.
• Ensure strong engineering practices across:
  • Service design API governance integration patterns
  • Performance scalability resiliency and fault tolerance
  • Observability production readiness and on-call stability
• Review and challenge technical designs; guide teams on pragmatic trade-offs aligned to banking constraints.
• Embed AI assisted development practices (coding assistants test automation defect analysis) to improve delivery throughput and quality.
• Define clear guardrails for safe and compliant AI usage within regulated banking environments.
• Ensure delivery aligns with banking expectations for:
  • Security privacy data handling and access controls
  • Stability resiliency incident management and audit readiness
• Proactively manage technology and delivery risks; implement preventive and corrective actions.
• Lead and inspire cross functional engineering teams (tech leads developers testers DevOps).
• Drive consistency in engineering standards ways of working and delivery discipline.

Required experience & skills

Mandatory

• 1218 years in software engineering with significant experience leading banking or regulated FS deliveries.
• Strong hands-on background in Java Spring/Spring Boot microservices REST/event-driven architectures.
• Experience delivering distributed high availability platforms at scale.
• Proven ownership of large delivery programs with multiple teams and complex dependencies.

Preferred

• Experience applying AI/GenAI within engineering or banking solutions (pragmatic production-focused).
• Cloud-native platforms containers orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• CI/CD pipelines test automation release governance.
• Messaging and data technologies typically used in banking platforms (e.g. Kafka NoSQL).
• Exposure to core banking modernization digital channels payments lending or risk platforms.

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