Senior Tech Lead - Software Engineering

About the Role

Overview

Responsible for providing technical leadership, driving solution design and implementation, and ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality enterprise software solutions. Collaborate with customers, engineering teams, architects, and project managers while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, BIAN standards, security practices, and banking requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Architecture

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, mentoring, and coaching to engineering teams.
• Lead solution design, implementation, and technical decision-making throughout the SDLC.
• Define scalable application architectures aligned with enterprise standards.
• Ensure architectural consistency, reusable design patterns, modular development, and DDD principles.
• Participate in requirements gathering, architecture reviews, development support, code reviews, testing, deployment, and production support.

BIAN & Banking Architecture – Mandatory

• Ensure solutions align with BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) standards.
• Design standardized banking services, APIs, and microservices aligned with BIAN service domains.
• Define appropriate microservices boundaries and support core banking integration.
• Apply enterprise API governance and banking integration standards.

API & Integration

• Drive Design-First API development using REST, OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Define API contracts, versioning, error handling, security, scalability, and reusability.
• Apply enterprise integration patterns and API governance best practices.

Technical Governance & Quality

• Review architecture, code quality, API specifications, and integration designs.
• Conduct peer code reviews and identify technical risks and architectural debt.
• Drive resolution of complex technical issues and ensure delivery aligns with project timelines.
• Evaluate technologies and platforms based on security, compliance, maintainability, scalability, LTS, cost, and long-term viability.

Performance, Security & Compliance

• Design solutions meeting NFRs including performance, scalability, availability, reliability, maintainability, and security.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability using ELK Stack or equivalent.
• Apply secure coding, JWT, RBAC, OWASP Top 10, and protection against CSRF/XSS.
• Ensure appropriate handling of PII and compliance with PCI DSS, GDPR, and banking regulations.
• Apply cryptographic principles including symmetric, asymmetric, and hybrid encryption.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in enterprise application development.
• Strong experience in enterprise applications, APIs, microservices, and system integration.
• Banking/financial services technology experience is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of BIAN architecture is mandatory.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.

Technical Competencies

Java & Software Engineering

• Strong Java and OOP knowledge.
• Data types, String immutability, heap/memory management, memory leak analysis, and exception handling.
• Java annotations, design patterns (Singleton, Factory, Builder, Strategy, etc.).
• Secure coding and code quality tools such as SonarQube.

API & Integration

• REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, API versioning and governance.
• Request/response contract design.
• Microservices and enterprise integration patterns.

Banking Architecture

• BIAN Reference Architecture (Mandatory).
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Banking service domains and core banking integration.
• Enterprise API governance.

DevSecOps & Quality

• Unit, API, and performance testing.
• Code reviews, CI/CD, production deployment, and incident troubleshooting.

NFRs

• Performance optimization, scalability, high availability, reliability, observability, security, monitoring, and logging.