Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field., 3+ years of application support experience, preferably in Payments Infrastructure., Basic understanding of programming languages like JavaScript and SQL., Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira..

Key responsibilities:

Lead and analyze technical support services for enterprise processes and technology.

Monitor and complete work requests to ensure quality and timely service delivery.

Facilitate collaboration with tech community and manage escalated issues.

Schedule and coordinate strategic meetings, managing agendas and outcomes.

Job description

Job Title: Java Tech Lead (Payments Infrastructure)
Location: Remote (Candidates only in the CST and EST)
Duration: 6 Months Contract

Top 3 things looking when reviewing resumes:
Technical Experience/knowledge - Java/mainframe/.net, SQL
Leadership Experience
Ability to manage a project/application upgrade

Essential Job Functions:

Possesses subject matter expertise (SME) to lead, drive, and analyze technical support services for *** enterprise processes and technology. Resolves support requests and meets customer satisfaction and continuous service delivery demands.
Proactively monitors and completes work requests to ensure quality and timely completion; evaluates team's service offerings to ensure strategic alignment with partner's needs. Facilitates collaboration with larger tech community, partners and leadership to ensure successful resolution of all escalated issues.
Participates in the continuous improvement idea generation process (process simplification and automation); manages, vets, and tests the concept and design of changes and streamlines workflow to improve performance and delivery.
Analyzes the data, determines gaps, identifies next steps, resolves, and documents the resolution of most complex problems; notifies management of issues that could pose a risk to the bank as needed, work with vendors as needed. Anticipates and remediates problems before they occur.
Adheres to all Key Policies and Standards, escalates exceptions or violations encountered and self-identified findings. May be responsible for operational monitoring, reporting and remediation of findings.
Demonstrates SME status for other technology teams. Possesses deep knowledge of LOBs supported and proactively collaborates to avoid negative impacts, ensuring success of their processes.
Embraces mentorship and training opportunities for self and mentors others. Inspires continuous learning in others. Encourages feedback and perspectives from all levels; receives and applies feedback from others.
Schedules, coordinates and facilitates strategic meetings with team members, peers, vendors and management. Owns and leads meeting, provides agendas, stays on task, manages timing, able to rephrase, ask probing questions and records outcomes and action items.
Defines, gathers, and analyzes metrics used to monitor health of product, process, and/or environment. Performs strategic analysis of metrics to identify trends and define course of action. Evaluates financial impact (i.e. resource and monetary costs) to make technical recommendations and presents business cases. Defines documentation standards for a product, process, and/or environment.

Required Qualifications:

Education/Certifications: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent work experience required.
Basic understanding of at least one programming language (e.g. JavaScript, SQL, etc.)
3+ years of application support experience, Payments Infrastructure preferred, ex. Check Processing, Returns, and Adjustments
Knowledge of Infrastructure Support responsibilities; ability to monitor infrastructure functions and resolve issues to maintain system reliability
Must be able to work with Product Owners and cross functional teams as a product team to achieve single goal
Experience with Jira/Jira Align, Agile/Scrum development methodologies, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery environment, utilizing automated testing, as well as Test Driven Development
Must be able to work with different stakeholders to understand the business needs and requirements
Experience with troubleshooting and incident management and escalation
Ability to work with internal support teams, infrastructure vendor support teams, participate in projects, and work individually to accomplish tasks
Possess strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

PMP Certification or prior Project Management experience
Prior experience as a Team Lead or leadership of a team

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