Team Lead, Platform Integrations at Stanbic IBTC Bank

Stanbic IBTC Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continent.

Standard Bank is a firm believer in technical innovation, to help us guarantee exceptional client service and leading edge financial solutions. Our growing global success reflects our commitment to the latest solutions, the best people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture. To help us drive our success into the future, we are looking for resourceful individuals to join our dedicated team at our offices.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Platform Integrations

Job Ref ID: 80452544A-0001
Location: Walter Carrington Crescent, Lagos
Job Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Responsible for the stability, performance, and reliability of our digital banking core. 
• Oversee the L2/L3 support operations that bridge the gap between the Finacle Core Banking system and our modern service layers. 
• Ensure “zero-downtime” operations by leading rapid incident response, performing deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA), and collaborating closely with the Finacle Core team to resolve complex integration bottlenecks.
• Finacle Support Liaison: Serve as the primary technical point of escalation for all integration issues involving Finacle and coordinate with the Core Banking team to troubleshoot data discrepancies, connectivity drops, and API failures.
• Incident Command: Lead the response to high-priority production incidents. Ensure clear communication with stakeholders and drive the team toward rapid service restoration.
• Environment Health: Monitor the stability of OpenShift and other servers, ensuring the optimal performance of the middleware services running within them.
• Proactive Monitoring: Drive the strategy for advanced alerting and logging (using Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Dynatrace). Ensure that support teams are alerted to anomalies before they impact end-users.
• Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR): Achieve an average MTTR of < 45 minutes for critical (P1) integration incidents.
• Support Leadership: Manage a 24/7 or follow-the-sun support rotation, ensuring adequate coverage and healthy work-life balance for the team.
• Change Success Rate: Maintain a > 98% success rate for all production patches and configuration changes.

Qualifications

• BSc in IT, Computer Science or related field
• Mater's degree, professional certification such as ITIL Foundation, Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJP), Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), Microsoft Certified Professional and Developer (MCP, MCSD) can be an added advantage.

Experience:

• 7 years deep operational understanding of Finacle Core Banking (e.g., troubleshooting Finacle Integrator, batch job failures, or ISO8583/REST messaging).
• Expert-level ability to read and debug Java code.
• Experience with Terraform/Ansible for environment automation and troubleshooting and Kafka/RabbitMQ for message-queue monitoring.

Additional Information:
Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Conveying Self-Confidence
• Interacting with People
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions

Technical Competencies:

• Business Process Improvement
• Data Integrity
• IT Applications
• IT Systems

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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