The Lead Engineer will be a key member of Trade Engineering team and responsible for delivering the product as per the business requirements to systems/technical design.
Requirements
- Represent the team to management and management to the team
- Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure a healthy, refined Product Backlog for the team
- Responsible for teaching and coaching Scrum values and practices
- Ensure adherence to delivery schedules and attendance at Daily Stand-up meetings
- Remove roadblocks and obstacles where the team is not able to do so
- Assist the Product Owner in shielding the team from external interferences
- Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions
- Facilitate team member specialization and generalization of tasks
- Schedule Sprint Reviews at the end of each sprint with the Product Owner
- Schedule and facilitate Sprint and Release Planning meetings
- Primarily a facilitative, servant leader and a Scrum process coach.
- Monitor Sprint tasks to ensure success but does not create or assign tasks (the team creates and assigns tasks)
- Regularly and physically meets with the team members
- Participate in business process re-engineering
- Assess value, develop cases and prioritize stories, epics and themes with acceptance criteria to ensure focus on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Provide functional consultancy support to development team for Technical Design
- Prepare User guides, Business Cases, Training Material
- Providing functional support during User Acceptance/Integration Testing
- Walkthrough the User Manual/ Production User Verification scripts with users
- Continuous management of the Trade Application System risks
- Proactively identify issues and actions
- Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
- Awareness of the regulatory world and knowledge of AML, Fraud, Screening, Data Quality needs and ensuring these are catered for in the functional design
- Coordinate with resources and teams across different location
- Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role
- Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
- Responsible for executing within set processes
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with Trade Technology partners.
- The ability to interpret the Group's financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role
Benefits
- 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-off including 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 working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through 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 culture to 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.
