Tech Lead - Java

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

• Our Singapore center (“ISAP” or “Information Systems Asia Pacific”) is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris Head Office)” for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:
• Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
• Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
• Providing premium In-house Banking applications,

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenge.

Department

CASH MANAGEMENT & CORPORATE BANKING SERVICES (CCS) DEPARTMENT with over 400 staffs has always played a crucial role in accompanying the Bank businesses through its transformation journey.

Projects ranging from the deployment of fast (streaming) and big data technologies, integration with blockchain, in-house implementations with advanced event-driven, micro-services architecture. CCS is always at the bleeding-edge of the latest technologies, cloud native applications and development practices. Applying methodologies and practices such as Agile and DevOps, has helped us build a strong partnership with the business.

We take pride in honing the skills of our staffs to their full potential.

Joining our team, you will be able to:

• Leverage on the strong mentorship of our technical leaders, subject matter experts and architects
• Discover and apply latest technologies and practices on the most demanding use cases and large scale worldwide infrastructure
• Be a part of new and exciting projects with over 100 Million EUR funding.
• Work in tandem with the business to build a successful product for our customers.
• Grow your career with us. Prefer to be on an expert path or a managerial path, your choice; we will guide you through it. We give you time to practice new technologies and to innovate.

About the Position

In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek a Java Tech Lead to join our CASH MANAGEMENT & CORPORATE BANKING SERVICES (CCS) DEPARTMENT. CCS design and manage the ICBS (International Core Banking System) of CA-CIB. The main features of this information system consist of payments & cash management, loans & deposits, international trade finance, guarantees, general expenses, reference data, limit and risk related systems. The department is in-charge of the core applications used by various departments in the bank: back offices, finance & accounting and compliance & risks.

The team is in-charge of the development and maintenance of financial core banking modules, including Accounts & Expense Management, Referential System and Access management system etc.

The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties while maintaining close communication with the rest of project/support teams as well as the ability to work on multiple projects concurrently. The candidate will need to develop a good understanding of both IT systems and business processes. As a Tech Lead you will be involved in analyzing functional specifications for development, share different solution design, prepare technical documentation, code, review and test as per the needs of our ICBS Information System. You will be implementing CCS standard software factory and propose new ideas in architecture design and software factory.

You will ensure the assigned projects; activities and tasks are delivered within the defined time, scope, cost and quality.

Main responsibilities

• Architecture & Design: Define and guide system architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Code Quality: Enforce best practices in coding, testing and reviews.
• Technical Decision-Making: Evaluate trade-offs and make key technical decisions.
• Mentorship: guide developers, conduct code reviews and providing feedback.
• Innovation & Research: Stay updated on new technologies and propose improvements.
• CI/CD & Automation: Ensure smooth deployments and development workflows.
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and improve application performance.
• Study, evaluate, understand, and provide feedback on functional specifications.
• Develop solutions following defined standards and high quality.
• Elaborate technical specifications, based on functional requirements and high-level architecture.
• Participate in analyzing, resolving and providing technical support escalated to the team.
• Draft specifications, technical design, unit tests, peer reviews and detailed system integration documents and any other documents as required during the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to maintaining a high standard of delivery quality.
• Participate in technical discussions and propose solutions based on industry best practices.
• Perform level 3 Support of applications in production - analyze and resolve issues as they arise.

Qualifications and Profile

This position requires a minimum of 8 years of relevant experiences in Java-J2EE software engineering, ideally in a banking environment.

Functional

• General knowledge or background in Banking is a plus

Technical

• Strong hand on experience on Core Java 5 or 8 (SE), JSP
• Strong hand on experience on Spring Framework
• Strong hand on experience on GIT, Eclipse, Maven, JUnit, MQ messaging
• Strong hand on experience on Shell scripting, SQL, Jasper Reports, Jboss/Tomcat/Jetty
• Strong hand on experience on Hibernate, IDE Eclipse, JSP and SQL
• Strong hand on experience on Oracle 12c/19c
• Strong hand on GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• Strong hand on Angular 4/14, Javascript/TypeScript
• Strong hand on Docker, Kubernetes
• Strong hand on Jenkins, Maven, RESTful
• Strong hand on CD/CI implementation
• Strong hand on MQ and CFT
• Exposer to NoSQL Database
• Exposure in PL/SQL
• Exposer to Big Data Framework

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Good oral and written communication skills (English)
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Proactive and autonomous, with a problem solving orientation.
• Experienced working within a LEAN environment
• Capable to effectively interact with functional and technical teams
• Self-motivated and excellent team player
• Ability to follow defined procedures
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Understanding and respect of cultural diversity
• Proficient in draw.io and Visio
• Interested to learn and work in new technologies

We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with your qualifications and experience.

For fair employment practices, we are keen on Singaporeans ONLY. We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with qualifications and experience.

Interested applicants, please click on "APPLY"

Visit us on: http://www.ca-cib.com/