Description

Engineering and DevOps Lead

Description

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is hiring an Engineering & DevOps Lead to join our Banking IT team.

The role is based in Basel, Switzerland, however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members.

Purpose of the job

The Banking IT team leads and maintains a software portfolio that supports treasury and asset management activities of the BIS. Our systems support trading, financial messaging, market and benchmark data, data integration and data engineering.

As Engineering and DevOps Lead you will be a key member of the team responsible for the governance and supervising architecture of the Banking IT systems. Together with other business units you will be implementing DevSecOps model and ensuring IT products’ compliance with BIS IT policies.

By joining the team you will:

• Have exposure to senior management to define and drive forward organisational change, test automation and engineering strategy for the department.
• Have a diversified scope of responsibilities – mix of people leadership and hands on, technical tasks.
• Take over a brand new, visible position in the bank, that will help you thrive, implement new and innovative solutions.
• Focus on engineering excellence, which is a core pillar of our Banking IT strategy.

Principal accountabilities:

Leadership and strategic technical planning

• Ensure the operational functioning of the unit through effective management and leadership
• Foster a culture of DevSecOps, agile ways of working and continuous improvement
• Assist the Head of Banking IT in the strategic planning of the section. Contribute to the budgeting, preparation of the IT work plan and IT project steering

Engineering and architecture

• Provide engineering and technical leadership to development and product teams across the whole department; coordinate technical roadmaps, together with Product Managers;
• Constantly improve the engineering practices in Banking IT and take ownership of the engineering excellence of Banking systems
• Supervise pre- and post-project architecture reviews done by the Senior Lead Architect and sign offs architecture strategic decisions reflected in the multi-year IT product strategies

DevSecOps adoption

• Provide quality assurance in change management process and take a release management responsibility; develop pipelines and test automation tooling
• Lead the implementation and support model of test environments
• Ensures that Development, automation, source code reviews, version control, config, mgmt., logging, CI/CD, penetration testing and other security guidelines of the software development lifecycle are followed by all BIT teams.

Compliance, security and controls

• Guide and advise teams on the topics of application security and cyber security
• Oversee and implement 3LOD in Banking IT
• Acts as a 1LoD control owner for IT related controls

Qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Strong technical experience, in a role as senior engineer or software developer, gained in banking or financial industry
• Expertise in test automation framework and tool adoption to complete the automation strategy
• Experience in leading team – direct or indirect (project teams, service delivery, project management)
• Recent coding experience – either hands on or reviewing codes
• Previous exposure to implementing technical strategies as well as leading complex technology transformations.
• Ability to work collaboratively and establish strong working relationships across different technical teams and business users.
• Proficient in English (oral and written)

Who we are:

The Bank for International Settlements is a diverse organization with colleagues from over 60 countries. By joining us in the international city of Basel, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We truly value diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the world we serve. At the BIS, we value equality and diversity in all its forms and one way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks. You can discover more about diversity at the BIS here.

What the BIS offers:

We want your time at the BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, thanks to our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world.

We strive to ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. Should you wish to request accommodation, support in completing this application or participating in the application process, then please reach out to the recruitment team at staffing@bis.org.

Please note that internal job title is Head of Engineering.