HighQ-Labs - Senior Manager - Information Technology

Job Description:

- To deliver and maintain IT-applications and services in order to realize the Company strategy in the field of information technology.

- Engineers in this job category work in an agile way, in squads to deliver short-cycle full-fledged IT products.

- The Dev Engineer (BE) is responsible for the system to work behind the scenes.

- Their role is to integrate the application with all required systems and services and provide clean and easy-to-use API for the frontend part of the system.

- Although their work is usually hidden from the user, they bear full responsibility for the application functionality, performance, and scalability.

- They know how to write clean modern APIs, integrate with legacy systems, and work with databases.

Responsibilities:

- Uses his/her technical expertise and experience to contribute to all sprint events (planning, refinements, retrospectives, demos).

- Consults with the team about what is needed to fulfill the functional and non-functional requirements of the IT product to be developed.

- Develops the IT product, performs the unit test in line with the customer's wishes and IT area's internal ambitions, and reviews colleagues' IT products.

- Designs, builds, tests IT products (functional, performance, resilience, and security tests), and automates them.

- Performs Life Cycle Management (including decommissioning) for IT products under management.

- Improves the Continuous Delivery process.

- Resolves incidents and problems relating to IT products under management (including stack).

- Sets up the IT environment, deploys the IT product on the IT infrastructure, and implements the required changes.

- Sets up monitoring of IT product usage by the customer.

Qualifications:

- At least 10 years of experience working in IT, with a minimum of 5 years in a managerial or leadership role in the banking or financial services industry.

- Experience as a backend developer in common languages and frameworks (Java Spring Boot, NodeJS, etc.), functional programming in Scala.

- Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented programming and engineering principles like SOLID.

- Significant experience writing and utilizing autonomous services oriented RESTful API services and performance tuning large-scale apps.

- Experience with database systems, with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL stores (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Couchbase, etc.

- Experience integrating with JavaScript frameworks, such as React, Angular JS, etc. is a plus.

- Ability to write effective unit, integration, and API tests.

- Nice to have knowledge of immutable infrastructure, infrastructure automation, and provisioning tools.

- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

- Experience as a Developer on a cross-functional agile team preferred.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align the organization on decisions.

- Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply.

- Utilizes team collaboration to create innovative solutions efficiently.

- Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive technologies.

- Wants to unleash inner self-starter and work in an environment that fosters entrepreneurial minds.

- Believes in culture of brutal transparency and trust.

- Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge.

- On-Site Opportunity in Dubai:.

- This position offers a relocation opportunity to Dubai, one of the leading global financial hubs.

- You will have the chance to work on-site in Dubai, managing high-profile projects in the banking domain and leading IT innovations in a city that fosters technological growth and development in the finance sector.