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About The Job:

Asa Tech Lead,you'llplay a pivotal role in the Wealth & Investment Management Applications & APIs Delivery team. This talented team is accountable for the development and maintenance ofstate-of-the-artuser applications and APIs. These tools empower our Home Office and Field Financial Representative, enabling them to provide unparalleled financial services to our clients.

In this role, you will serve as a Tech Lead, directly leading and mentoring a team of engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.

WhatYou'llDo:

• Engage in Collaborative Innovation:Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business requirements, transforming them into scalable and secure technical solutions.

• Architect Tomorrow's Solutions:Design and architect software solutions with a forward-thinking mindset, prioritizing performance, scalability, and seamless integration. Your work will be grounded in industry and enterprise best practices.

• Lead from the Front:Dive into development and software engineering tasks while guiding the team towards delivering top-tier solutions. Your hands-on leadership will set the bar for excellence.

• Champion Continuous Improvement:Drive initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiency, quality, and overall team performance. Your keen eye for optimization will shape our future success.

• Delivery & Team Ownership:Own team outcomes, includingdelivery commitments, code quality, and engineering best practices, while building a high-performing engineering culture.

What You'll Bring:

• Academic Excellence:Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, ora relatedfield.

• Seasoned Expertise:Boast 6-8 years of experience in software development and solution architecture.

• Architectural Prowess:Showcasestrongexpertisein solution architecture, backed by a proventrack recordof delivering complex, scalable systems.

• Full-Stack Development:Proficiencyin modern software development languages and frameworks, including JavaScript (Node.js, React, Next.js), TypeScript, CSS, and Python.

• API and Domain Design: Strong experience in domain-driven API development, including designing and building scalable, secure, and well-structured APIs aligned to business domains and enterprise architecture standards.

• Data& Platform Expertise:Experiencedesigning and implementingdata-driven solutions, with hands-on exposure to moderndataplatforms such asDatabricks. Strong knowledge of relationaldatabases, with a focus on PostgreSQL.

• Leadership & Communication:Proven ability to lead engineering teams, including mentoring developers, driving technical decisions, and managing delivery, whiledemonstratingstrong communicationskills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Skills You Have:

• Talent Development & Planning-Develops direct reports' skills based on organizationalobjectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strongteamsand better organizational performance inan equitableand inclusive manner.

• Software Development-Creates andmaintainsapplications, frameworks, and other software components via designing, programming, testing, and bug fixing; writes andmaintainssource code for all processes in the software development life cycle andfacilitatesthe automation and orchestration of disparate systems. Leverage TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) methodologies to ensure unit, integration, and end-to-end testing with appropriatelevelof coverageismet.

• Customer Centricity-Appliesa customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy,impactcritical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.

• Cross Functional Partnering &Planning-Facilitatescollaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams fromdifferent functionswithin the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.

• Coaching & Mentoring-Develops others by providing actionable, constructive feedback through the lens of technicalexpertiseand offers guidance to others on how toleverage, prioritize, and develop skills to achieve one's goals andobjectives.

• Application Performance Management-Ensures that critical applications meet established expectations for performance, availability, and customer or end-user experience. Confirms that SLAs aremetand NFRs are addressed.

• Technical Problem Solving-Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope, applies best practice based on experience andexpertise, explores the "art of possible".Solves problems effectively and gains alignment on the path forward. Defines, understands, and documents what is beingsolved for.

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