SVP, CAL, Full Stack Engineer Mainframe, WRB Tech

SVP, CAL, Full Stack Engineer Mainframe, WRB Tech

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• Manage the lifecycle of products or services, ensuring governance is maintained and aligned with the group's framework.
• Champion the adoption of Change Delivery Standards to refine project management and lifecycle processes.
• Promote a feedback-rich environment, utilizing internal and external insights to continuously improve chapter operations.
• Drive the development of a dynamic engineering culture, advocating agile and lean practices for sustained growth and improvement.
• Promote a proactive learning environment and operational excellence within the chapter.
• Instil a 'business-first' mindset across the team, aligning engineering practices with strategic business objectives.
• Align team development with the chapter’s objectives, ensuring a focus on strategic skill advancement and personal growth.
• Attract and retain top engineering talent to build a highly skilled and innovative team advancing the Chapter and Hive goals.
• Design and uphold a robust risk management plan, with contingencies for succession and role continuity, especially in critical positions.
• Encourage proactive risk identification and management, establishing a vigilant culture that anticipates and addresses issues swiftly.
• Coordinate risk escalation and participate in resolution processes, ensuring timely understanding the root cause.
• Exemplify and promote adherence to the group's values and code of conduct, ensuring all activities comply with regulatory and ethical standards.
• Take on accountability for the governance of processes and practices, ensuring they meet both internal and external regulatory requirements.
• Represent the chapter in relevant forums, advocating for the chapter's needs and ensuring alignment with organisational directives.
• Ensure a comprehensive understanding of and adherence to local banking laws, anti-money laundering regulations, and other compliance mandates.
• Conduct business activities with a commitment to legal and regulatory compliance, fostering an environment of trust and respect.
• Developing and executing the Chapter Vision alongside other Chapter Leads.
• Driving technology strategy, selecting technology stacks, and implementing a future-ready technology stack to achieve scalable, robust, and resilient systems.
• Functioning as a technical leader and active coder, setting and enforcing domain-specific best practices and technology standards.
• Being an experienced former practitioner with leadership abilities.
• Overseeing the execution of functional standards and best practices.
• Providing thought leadership, inspiring, and retaining talents by developing and nurturing an extensive internal and external network of practitioners.
• Focusing on capability building rather than owning applications or delivery.
• Creating a strategy roadmap for technical work.
• Driving technology convergence and simplification across the chapter area.
• Leading the modernization and migration of the current IBM mainframe technology stack, guiding the team through this transformative journey into new technologies.
• Drive backend development in mainframe environments, from code development to testing and production.
• Ensure robustness and efficiency in backend processing on mainframe systems, leading performance tuning and optimisation initiatives.
• Manage backend development projects across mainframe databases and transaction processing environments.
• Implement and maintain backend system integrations and data flow between mainframe and other platforms.
• Champion the use of advanced backend tools and practices in the mainframe space to enhance system capabilities.
• Cultivate an engineering culture that values excellence, feedback, and clean code, driving the chapter towards innovative and efficient practices.
• Develop a strategic approach that enhances SDLC process efficiency, delivering high-quality and scalable solutions.
• Integrate Thought Leadership to upskill the team in areas like quality assurance, enhancing user experience, and effective use of automation and APIs.
• Trusted advisor to the business. Work hand in hand with the Business, taking product programs from investment decisions, into design, specification, and solution phases, all the way to operations on the ground and securing support services from other teams.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise for the subdomain to achieve goals and outcomes
• Support respective businesses in the commercialisation of capabilities, bid teams, monitoring of usage, improving client experience, and collecting defects for future improvements.
• Manage business partner expectations. Ensure delivery to business meeting time, cost and with high quality
• Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery for their craft (Eg. Engineering).
• Responsible for balancing skills and capabilities across teams (squads) and hives in partnership with the Chief Product Owner & Hive Leadership, and in alignment with the fixed capacity model.
• Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.
• Mainframe Mastery: Proficient in IBM Z/OS operations and COBOL programming, with hands-on experience in utilizing mainframe tools such as ENDEVOR and EXPEDITER, and adept in mainframe API frameworks like KONG and SOLACE.
• Integration Proficiency: Skilled in enterprise integration patterns, including MQ and CFT, with the ability to leverage frameworks like SPRING BOOT for modernizing mainframe applications.
• Database and RPGLE Acumen: Capable with DB2, adept in writing and optimizing RPGLE and SQLRPGLE programs for AS400 systems.
• Legacy Systems Innovation: Demonstrated success in modernizing and integrating legacy systems with cutting-edge technology, enhancing system efficiency and business agility.
• Strategic Leadership and Vision: Proven track record in spearheading substantial technology initiatives, with a focus on leading projects that contribute significantly to the bank's engineering strategy and the advancement of engineering policies.
• 15+ years of proven experience in mainframe environment out of which 4+ years is in leadership roles
• Proven ability to debug, troubleshoot, and optimise the performance of mainframe applications and systems.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation for mainframe applications, including program specifications, system configurations, and operational procedures.
• Strong foundation in software version control systems and practices, with experience using SCM tools like Git or Bitbucket within a mainframe context.

Bachelor in Computer Science and IT related

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.