Senior Manager - Digital Engineering in Banking

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Senior Manager – Digital Engineering (Banking)

Focus: Java, Microservices, Cloud-Native Platforms, AI enabled Delivery

Role type: Client delivery leadership (hands-on, outcome driven)

Role purpose

Lead large-scale engineering delivery for banking clients, owning end-to-end execution of Java-based, cloud-native microservices platforms. The role is accountable for predictable delivery, engineering quality, platform resilience, and team performance, while embedding AI-enabled engineering practices to improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency.

• Own day-to-day delivery for complex banking programs across build, modernization, and platform engineering.
• Be accountable for scope, timelines, quality, cost, and delivery predictability.
• Lead design and implementation of enterprise-scale Java microservices and APIs.
• Ensure strong engineering practices across:
  • Service design, API governance, integration patterns
  • Performance, scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance
  • Observability, production readiness, and on-call stability
• Review and challenge technical designs; guide teams on pragmatic trade-offs aligned to banking constraints.
• Embed AI assisted development practices (coding assistants, test automation, defect analysis) to improve delivery throughput and quality.
• Define clear guardrails for safe and compliant AI usage within regulated banking environments.
• Ensure delivery aligns with banking expectations for:
  • Security, privacy, data handling, and access controls
  • Stability, resiliency, incident management, and audit readiness
• Proactively manage technology and delivery risks; implement preventive and corrective actions.
• Lead and inspire cross functional engineering teams (tech leads, developers, testers, DevOps).
• Drive consistency in engineering standards, ways of working, and delivery discipline.

Required experience & skills

Mandatory

• 12–18+ years in software engineering with significant experience leading banking or regulated FS deliveries.
• Strong hands-on background in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, REST/event-driven architectures.
• Experience delivering distributed, high availability platforms at scale.
• Proven ownership of large delivery programs with multiple teams and complex dependencies.

Preferred

• Experience applying AI/GenAI within engineering or banking solutions (pragmatic, production-focused).
• Cloud-native platforms, containers, orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• CI/CD pipelines, test automation, release governance.
• Messaging and data technologies typically used in banking platforms (e.g., Kafka, NoSQL).
• Exposure to core banking modernization, digital channels, payments, lending, or risk platforms.

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