Lead Engineer – Frontend UI, AVP

Job Title: Lead Engineer – Frontend UI, AVP

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: AVP

Role Description

As a lead engineer, you would lead the UI architecture, collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver exceptional user experiences. You would have strong expertise in frontend best practices, component-based design, and responsive development and guide your team to adopt the same. Work includes:

• Creating a digital vision and strategy for the bank, and ensuring its integration with the organization's overall strategic plans  
• Identifying opportunities for differentiating the bank's digital portfolio including capabilities and solutions  
• Acting as a change agent in leading the organizational changes that are required to create and maintain the necessary digital portfolio.
• Applying extensive knowledge and understanding of the evolving digital market, acts as a thought leader on emerging digital trends related to technology and business.

About DWS

• Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures – but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change. 
• Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence. You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment.
• We’re looking for creative thinkers and innovators to join us as the world continues to transform. As whole markets change, one thing remains clear; our people always work together to capture the opportunities of tomorrow. 
• As investors on behalf of our clients, it is our role to find investment solutions. Ensuring the best possible foundation for our clients’ financial future. And in return, we’ll give you the support and platform to develop new skills, make an impact and work alongside some of the industry’s greatest thought leaders. This is your chance to achieve your goals and lead an extraordinary career.
• This is your chance to invest in your future.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Lead UI Engineer is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments. Work includes:  

• Planning and developing entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals    
• Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle  
• Ensuring maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions.
• Ensuring solutions are well architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow. 
• Reviewing engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability 
•  Participating in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools, and solutions in the Bank. 
• Architect, develop, and maintain UI components using React.js and JavaScript.
• Define and enforce best practices for UI development, coding standards and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers and backend developers to deliver seamless responsive interfaces.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code.
• Drive code reviews, unit testing and integration testing processes.
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions for scalable frontend systems and own performance, accessibility and cross browser compatibility.

Your skills and experience

Must Have:

• Overall experience of 10+ years with hands-on coding in frontend development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, node.js and React.js
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS and responsive design.

Desirable skills that will help you excel                                                                                         

• Prior experience working in Agile/scum environment.
• Proficient in any UI framework/library ( REACT/ANGULAR/VUE/NEXT )
• Well versed with commonly used Data Structures and Algorithms
• Understanding of REST based Architecture and concepts
• Understanding of Design Patterns and Principles.
• Understanding of cross-browser, mobile first development
• Unit Testing - writing unit/e2e tests.
• Exposure to cloud platforms is a plus (preferably GCP).
• Strong problem solving and communications skills.
• Working knowledge of GIT, Jenkins, CICD, Gradle, DevOps and SRE techniques

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant technology & science
• Technology certifications from any industry leading cloud providers

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.