Chapter Lead - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Swift

Description

About the Role

As a Technical Lead also known as Chapter Lead for Engineers, you have the opportunity to build and maintain a team of great software engineers. You will be responsible for the staffing of your chapter, act as a coach, building and developing your chapter members, understanding and identifying their development needs as well as organizing the resource allocation of chapter members to squads and orchestrate the performance of the chapter.
In the agile context you will also participate as 'hands-on' squad member to contribute to the success of a squad as well as to retain and grow your people manager as well as technical expertise.

What to expect as Chapter Lead

As a Technical Lead also known as Chapter Lead for the Engineers , you are responsible to hire, coach, and motivate team members of your chapter in order to build a group of talented software engineers who can deliver value in their squads.

This activity is expected to take up to 50% of your time and includes:

Responsible for craftmanship building for each of chapter member as well as people development to achieve professional competency.

Coach chapter members on best practices and software design patterns to use in their respective products and set up knowledge sharing between chapter members and participate in cross-tribe knowledge sharing.

Select and recruit squad members with skills to meet projected demand and to have qualified, competent and motivated chapter members.

Work with the Product Owners and the Engineering Lead to organise the chapter member assignment in squads

Develop and design and development initiatives to fill identified gaps and improvement areas.

Build a network within and outside the Chapter, maintains relationships with all relevant stakeholders and makes sure they are consulted and informed when needed.

Set annual objectives and conduct mid-year review and year-end performance appraisal of chapter members,

Orchestrate the feedback collection from Product Owner, Agile Coach, and stakeholders to assess development needs and agree on skills development goals for chapter members.

Leads with a team focus : Contributes to team effectiveness through professional leadership; respects diversity and encourages others to do so; provides motivational opportunities and recognizes differences in team member contributions; serves as a role model by living SWIFT values.

The remaining time will be working on squad's commitment which you will be focusing on delivering business insights to our customers through Data Management Platform (DMP).

What to expect as Squad member

Solid programming/coding experience in Java Development

Solid understanding of Data Engineering, Data Hub, Data Lake and Data Warehousing concepts and ability to articulate to technical and non-technical audiences.

Advanced SQL knowledge with some RDBMS and/or NoSQL knowledge (OracleDB)

Excellent troubleshooting skills, battle-tested in high-volume production environments.

Experience with one or more of the following technologies is a big plus: Apache NIFI, Apache Airflow, Amazon S3

Experience working in an Agile development (scrum) context, with hands-on experience on Agile tools (JIRA, Confluence, ...) and CICD development & deployment tools (Cloudbees, Nexus, Git)

Experience with Virtualisation concepts and orchestration technologies (Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes)

Experience with scripting language, primarily Unix Shell, Perl, Python

Experience in manual & automated testing

What will make you successful

a) Experience & Education

Master or bachelor degree in Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent through experience

Several years of people management experiences

Minimum 8 years of IT development/testing/integration experience

b) Soft Skills

Recognized as subject-matter expert

Proven experience in leading, coaching and mentoring team members

Passionate about people management and people development

Open-minded and curious about technology

Extensive experience of working in environments involving software engineering

Passionate about change & improvement, with constant challenge of the status quo, having demonstrated aptitudes for learning new technologies quickly. Capacity to innovate, think out of the box and connect the dots

Excellent customer-centric team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills, willing to work in a multicultural environment.

Customer oriented background that comprises both solid business context as well as high level understanding of high-quality technical product deliver

Ability to influence, work effectively across all levels and transversally, challenger, curious and a positive mindset

Strong analytical, communication and presentation skills, with excellent English, both written and spoken

Proven experience as a key technical resource leading the development of solutions.

Demonstrated ability to influence and consult (providing options with pros, cons and risks) around all key technical decisions during project delivery.

Well-structured, rigorous and organized, able to prioritize and focus on the most important issues at hand and capable of thriving in a fast paced, goals and deadlines driven environment

For more info on the role, you may reach to the

Recruiter for this role, Sobasri Sinaiah Apac Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Hiring Manager for this role, Samuel Lim Cluster Product Owner in Data & Analytics at Swift

What we offer

We put you in control of career

We give you a competitive package

We help you perform at your best

We help you make a difference

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We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. An environment in which everyone's voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion , or veteran/military status.