Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Team Lead, Platform Integrations
Location: Lagos Mainland, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking
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 Degree 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:
- 7years 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.
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
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