Sr Lead Software Engineer

Overview

In this Senior Lead Software Engineer role within Global Banking, you drive high-impact technical work in an agile context to deliver secure, scalable technology products. You guide teams, shape product design, and advance AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality, speed, and reliability. You’ll tackle cross-technology challenges and contribute to firmwide SDLC governance while collaborating with cross-functional partners. This is an opportunity to influence architecture and engineering culture at scale and deliver trusted solutions for clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others’ code
• Drive adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices across teams with measurable validation standards
• Utilize SDLC tools and AI-assisted development capabilities to enhance automation and value
• Influence product design, functionality, and technical operations
• Act as a function-wide SME in focus areas
• Contribute to engineering community by advocating firmwide SDLC frameworks, tools, and practices

Key requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
• 10+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming languages
• Experience leading use of enterprise-approved AI-assisted development tools with ability to set team expectations for AI outputs
• Strong understanding of responsible AI usage in engineering workflows, data sensitivity, security, and resiliency
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently
• Practical cloud native experience

• leadership
• problem-solving
• communication
• core Java
• ReactJS
• SQL and NoSQL databases

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