We are looking for an experienced Technical Engineer to join our Enterprise Engineering development team. The team is responsible for the delivery and ongoing maintenance of YBS’ Transaction Monitoring solution.

This is an important leadership role within the team, being the primary technical contact for architecture, product owners, infrastructure, testing and release. You’ll be pivotal to providing technical leadership to develop colleagues, hands on expertise, and acting as a conduit between the Engineering community and key stakeholders across YBS through the translation of requirements into technical designs.

This is a hybrid role with remote working, but some onsite presence in our Bradford and Leeds based offices will be required.

About the role

Technical Leadership - Develop API’s and Java Spring Boot Microservices that will underpin our Transaction Monitoring Services, and act as a key point of escalation on all technical aspects
Technical Design - leading the team in creating (and documenting) designs which deliver the business requirements, to the agreed service levels. Understanding scope and adapting the builds to changing demands, ensuring it remains fit for purpose. Establishing and maintaining clear documentation standards is also essential
Planning - Contribute to resource planning and estimation to ensure the right developers are in place with the right capabilities to succeed by addressing hotspots and coaching as required to deliver
Implementation leadership - Working alongside the Service Lead (Development Team Leader) to support engineers in implementing builds safely and in line with established engineering practices to protect production services. This includes ensuring the team consistently applies unit testing, integration testing, and code quality checks within CI pipelines and workflows
Release & Deployment - Responsible for deployments, collaborating with our DevOps teams to ensure quality delivery aligned to business outcomes
Assurance - Accountable for providing assurance that implementation is built right, to service levels and follows YBS’s development standards
Collaboration - Work closely with Architects, DevOps Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and the engineering chapter leads to drive the YBS Engineering capability forward

About you

You’ll have hands-on experience of Java and Spring boot microservice development. In addition, you will -
Have demonstrable experience leading a modern software engineering team. Providing clear direction and expectations to developers and able to identify training and upskilling opportunities
Be comfortable switching between hands-on development and technical leadership oversight, depending on the needs of the project
Have experience of integrating new technologies and creating standards of usage within teams
Be a great communicator finding ways for non-technical stakeholders to understand technical concepts
Be a strong influencer and negotiator to bring people on-board to new ways of thinking
Experience working within a regulated financial environment
Strong knowledge of established and emerging technologies and platforms used within modern payments applications including:
- Restful Design, working with API gateway and management platforms (Azure API Management)
- Containers and Container Orchestration OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes
- Continuous Integration Pipelines - GitLab, Jenkins.
- Java Spring Boot Microservices
- IaC scripting & concepts (Bicep or Terraform preferred but not essential)