Tech Leader Archetype Consultant
Location: Remote
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
As Tech Leader Archetype in the IDB Group's Digital Transformation Program, your role will be fundamental to lead and guide the development of technological solutions that facilitate the digital transformation of the organization.
This position involves designing and developing robust and scalable solutions and collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams to connect people, technology, data and processes with a holistic and transversal vision. In addition, your experience in cloud services integrations, software development, and data architecture will be key to drive innovation and optimize workflows in the organization.
What youโll do:
- Technical guidance:
o Guide product team engineers: Provide technical direction and decision making to ensure the feasibility and success of the product.
o Collaboration: Coordinate between software engineers, architects, and QA analysts to ensure cohesive development efforts.
o Define and drive the technical vision and strategy of the product.
o Make high-level design decisions, establish technical standards, and review architectural choices, work closely with ITE Enablers (Architecture, Security, Data, Integrations, etc.)
o Oversee the technical development process to ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, and secure. Provide guidance on best practices in coding, design, and development methodologies.
o Lead the development of high-quality software solutions, including writing code, performing code reviews, and ensuring adherence to coding standards, automated testing and code quality
- Assessing the technology stack:
o Compatibility: Ensuring the new products' features align with the existing technology infrastructure.
o Modernization needs: Identifying any necessary upgrades or potential changes to the current technology stack.
- Scalability and performance:
o Load handling: Ensuring the system can manage increased user loads and data volume.
o Performance metrics: Monitoring key performance indicators to maintain optimal speed and responsiveness.
- Integration capabilities:
o System interoperability: Verifying that the product can integrate seamlessly with other systems and applications.
o API (Application Programming Interface) usage: Utilizing APIs for smooth data exchange and functionality integration.
- Risk identification and mitigation:
o Technical risks: Identifying and resolving technical challenges, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring development stays on track.
o Resource allocation: Ensuring adequate resources are available to address technical risks and challenges.
- Working with a product mindset:
o Collaborate with Project Managers and/or Product Owners to define project requirements, scope, timelines, and resources.
o Serve as the technical liaison between development teams and other stakeholders, including product managers, clients, and other departments.
o Develop and manage the technical roadmap for projects, including planning sprints and assigning tasks and ensure that development activities align with project goals and deliverables.
o Make key technical decisions and provide expert advice on technical issues. Manage the technical aspects of the development lifecycle, including planning, coding, testing, and deployment.
What you'll need:
- Education: You hold a bachelorโs degree in computer science or related field.
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of combined experience in software development, solutions architecture, cloud integration architecture, and/or data architecture.
- Languages: You are proficient in English and in another Bank official language (Spanish, Portuguese, and/or French).
- Certifications: Desirable at least the foundations levels Fundamentals (Azure) Practitioner (AWS) any other is a plus.
Key Skills:
- Proficiency building and consuming APIs and/or web services (SOA, REST, XML, JSON, OData), including authorization and authentication standards (SAML, OAuth, WebAuth, ADFS) as well as tracing APIs using SoapUI, ReadyAPI or Fiddler. As well as documenting the API using Swagger and OpenAPI standards.
- Proficiency developing applications using cloud providers like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS). Expertise on working with cloud-native integration services in Azure such as Service Bus, Event Hub/Grid, Logic Apps, App Services (Web Apps and Functions), API Management Service, SignalR, etc. Proven experience with C# and .Net stack. Strong programming skills as well as proficiency in software design and integration patterns. Familiarity with Typescript/Javascript is desirable too.
- Solid understanding of SOA and/or microservices architectures as well as their correspondent implementation using serverless or containerized infrastructures.
- Familiarity with modern web development concepts/frameworks such as SPA, SPFx, Angular, React, Dojo, etc.
- Proficiency in designing, architecting, and implementing integration solutions for IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS environments.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Proficiency with relational databases.
- Working with a product mindset:
- Risk identification and mitigation:
- Integration capabilities:
- Scalability and performance:
- Assessing the technology stack: