Lead Agile Developer

2 months ago

Old Toronto, Canada Equitable Group Full time
p>Join a Challenger

Being a traditional bank just isn’t our thing. We are big believers in innovating the banking experience because we believe Canadians deserve better options, and we challenge ourselves and our teams to creatively transform what’s possible in banking. Our team is made up of inquisitive and agile minds that find smarter ways of doing things. Overall we serve more than 670,000 people across Canada through Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank, and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary, Concentra Bank, supports credit unions across Canada that serve more than six million members. Together we have over $125 billion in combined assets under management and administration, with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. Our customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform (eqbank.ca) one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks list since 2021.

The Work

The Software Developer Lead is an exciting role at Equitable which is accountable to lead and manage Pod delivery. p>

The Software Developer Lead will be partnered with a Product Owner and Project Manager to drive the team to complete Discovery & Planning (initiation, scoping and planning), design & build Sprints, solution testing/hardening, releases to production, and ongoing build-measure-learn releases. As the Lead for the Pod, the Software Developer Lead will work with the team to set the approach for how the team will deliver code, including tailoring the Bank’s methodology and artefacts. The Lead will work with the core leads to provide status updates based on delivery progress, velocity/trends, quality, RAID, and impediments.

Co-facilitate Agile ceremonies (with Scrum Managers), including story-point estimation, story elaboration, sprint grooming, task assignment & management to completion, retrospectives, etc.Measure build progress, velocities, trends and quality to provide delivery status updates.
  • Minimum 7 years’ experience in the financial services industry with a strong understanding of personal and commercial banking digital products.
  • Solid programming skills in Java and hands-on experience with Spring Boot framework, including expertise in troubleshooting applications (Spring-based), working with debuggers, flow analyzers, and configuration tools.
  • Extensive experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and RESTful Architecture, with a deep understanding of web services.
  • Expertise in security protocols and standards, including JWE (JSON Web Encryption), JWS (JSON Web Signature), JWT (JSON Web Token), and OAuth.
  • Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience is required.
  • Hands-on problem-solving skills to remove technical impediments and manage the closure of RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies).
  • Ability to organize and coordinate senior resources with cross-functional skill sets as a holistic group, fostering close collaboration and cooperation.
  • Experience working in a highly collaborative, customer-centric environment, with a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions.
    • Experience or familiarity with Open APIs, Technical Product Management, MicroService / Enterprise Service Bus architecture, cloud IaaS / PaaS, and mobile platforms.
    • Strong proficiency in Azure Cloud Services, including deployment, management, and monitoring of cloud-based applications, is a plus.

    Job Complexities / Thinking Challenges

    • The Software Developer Lead will be required to conceptualize and think tactically within a technically complex environment, often relying on past experiences to navigate ambiguous and high-level requests. The incumbent will be required to drive a team to identify, analyze, build and test technology solutions. The Lead will partner with Technology service teams to create the target state architectures and implementation plans.
    • Excellent interpersonal skills, with proven track record of developing relationships and maturity to interact with company leaders (VP, Director and Senior Manager levels).
    • Focus on customer/end user experience.

    What we offer [For full-time permanent roles]

    Competitive discretionary bonus.

    Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.

    Generous vacation policy, personal days and even a moving day.

    Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues.

    A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience.

    The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from Equitable Bank’s additional office space located at 351 King Street East, Toronto, ON.

    Equitable Bank is deeply committed to inclusion.

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