Principal Engineer - Back End (Corporate Application)

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

As the Principal Engineer, your development skills will be utilized across full software development lifecycle providing deep technical expertise and is tasked with the responsibility for the co-planning, co-design, implementation, services migration, operations and on-going maintenance of PayNet’s applications. 

Implementing the organization towards a modernized application and architecture running on AWS Cloud. The role is expected to drive internal adoption of in-house development and moving away from vendor outsourcing. 

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design Proofs of Concepts of solutions for development team to consume. 
•  Own, lead and managing delivery of system development and solution and production issues by working closely with key stakeholders in translating user, business and technical requirements into design, specifications and development. 
• Responsible in implementing and architecting the state-of-the-art software architecture and transforming to future-state application roadmap. 
• Responsible in maintaining and updating of cloud applications such as One Stop Portal.
• To inculcate the best practices, operational discipline and guidelines across the systems team. 
•  Accountable for production issues and serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within an area of specialty, extending advice and consultancy to cross functional teams, being responsible in leading the state-of-the-art application modernization. 
•  Coaching and mentoring junior team members by providing guidance and influences software team through code review and technical documentation. 

ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT 

• General
• Understands and applies controls effectively to manage key risks and provides suggestions to improve the controls, wherever possible
• Promptly escalates risks and incidents to senior management in accordance to existing procedures.
• Comply to relevant regulations, guidelines and procedures
• On Appointment as Primary/Alternate RCO
• Proactively support the development, management and prompt risk reporting of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) Framework/Policy/Procedures for the department/function and sign off on all risk related documentations.
• Proactively support the identification, monitoring, reporting and implementation for the compliance of relevant regulations and guidelines applicable to the department/function
• On Appointment as Project Manager
• Responsible for project management related tasks i.e. planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of progress, risks and issues.
• Develop Request for Proposal, evaluate and obtain necessary approval for the award of tender, where applicable
• On Appointment as Division/Department Head
• Responsible as the primary owner to lead the management, monitoring and reporting of risks, compliance and business continuity management within the division/department.
• Proactively and visibly sponsors efforts to inculcate risk and compliance culture within the team.
• Sign off on the final risk related documentations for the division/department.

QUALIFICATION

• Minimum Qualifications
• Degree in Computer Science
• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a high-pressured System Integrator environment – exceptional self-starter will be considered.
• Experience in the IT banking and Telecommunications sector would be an added advantage.
• Technical Qualifications
• Advanced level knowledge across Linux and Unix OS platforms.
• Must adept at latest programming, frameworks or solution such as but not limited to: Java, Golang, Spring Boot, web services (REST, SOAP) and experience in Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
• Familiar and have good understanding in DevSecOps architecture such as Jenkins and Ansible.
• Implementation experience with: - SMTP, Tomcat, Apache, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle DB, JBoss, Spring, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana among others.
• Successfully implement and deploy application on the cloud using various AWS services such as S3, RDS, EC2, EC2, Cognito, Glue and more.
• Implementation experience on event streaming and pub/sub would be an added advantage.
• Additional Requirements
• Effective communication skills.
• Extremely diligent, fine eye for details, supreme problem-solving capabilities and a team player.