Cutshort Lightning

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Vice President - Engineering Lead, where you will be responsible for supporting the successful technical delivery. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Key Responsibilities 

•  Frontend: Develop React Native applications (TypeScript, Redux), shared components/micro frontends and robust navigation/error patterns.  
• Backend: Design and implement Java 17+, Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, persistence (JPA/Hibernate) and API security.  
• Security & Auth: Implement OAuth2/OpenID Connect/JWT, biometric SDK integrations, secure token handling, input validation and OWASP controls.  
• DevOps & Cloud: Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and deployments on AWS/Azure.  
• Quality & Collaboration: Work with SDET and QA on automated testing; participate in code reviews, design sessions and sprint ceremonies; uphold risk & controls.  

To be successful as a Vice President -Engineering Lead, you should have experience with:   

• React Native, React 18,
• TypeScript/JavaScript, 
• Redux; 
• Experience in Core Java 17+, Spring Boot, REST, microservices;
• JPA/Hibernate; 
• Gradle, Git;
• Agile delivery;
• Authentication protocols. 
• Designing modular engineering
• Events / Messaging (Kafka / MQ)
• Onboarding customers in bank digital.
• APIs (Design & Development)
• Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• BE/BTech/MCA (or equivalent)
• DORA Metrics / Observability

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Container Technologies – Docker, Kubernetes.
• Test Driven Development (TDD).
• CI/CD Pipelines & DevOps.
• Secure Coding & OWASP Compliance .
• Site reliability exposure.
• Python scripting.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure. 

Accountabilities

• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
• Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

To be a successful Senior Data Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Hands on experience to work with large scale data platforms & in development of cloud solutions in AWS data platform with proven track record in driving business success.
• Strong understanding of AWS and distributed computing paradigms, ability to design and develop data ingestion programs to process large data sets in Batch mode using Glue, Lambda, S3, redshift and snowflake and data bricks.
• Ability to develop data ingestion programs to ingest real-time data from LIVE sources using Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming and related technologies. Hands on programming experience in python and PY-Spark.
• Understanding of Dev Ops Pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab & should be strong in data modelling and Data architecture concepts & well versed with Project management tools and Agile Methodology.
• Sound knowledge of data governance principles and tools (alation/glue data quality, mesh), Capable of suggesting solution architecture for diverse technology applications.

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued:

• Experience working in financial services industry & working in various Settlements and Sub ledger functions like PNS, Stock Record and Settlements, PNL.
• Knowledge in BPS, IMPACT & Gloss products from Broadridge & creating ML model using python, Spark & Java.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Designing and delivering cloud native, event driven, microservices aligned architectures using AWS (Lambda, S3, Glue, Athena, CloudWatch), Hadoop/Spark, Kafka, and related data engineering tooling.
• Building low latency data pipelines, real time analytics engines, and enterprise data models for front office and financing workloads.
• Driving strong engineering discipline — code reviews, automated validation, performance tuning, observability, and enterprise grade CI/CD practices.
• Partnering with global architects and senior stakeholders to convert conceptual designs into production ready components, and leading Agile delivery with clear requirements, estimation, and end to end ownership.
• Ensuring production readiness across resilience, monitoring, alerting, data integrity, and operational stability, while supporting RTB operations through incident triage, RCA, and robust fixes.
• Non-negotiable competencies: AWS, Python, low latency engineering, and experience working in globally distributed environments.

Some of the Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Strong collaboration with stakeholders across Prime Services, SBL, Funding, PnL, and Risk, coupled with solid capital‑markets domain knowledge.
• Technical leadership through coaching, code/design reviews, knowledge sharing, and building reusable frameworks and engineering assets that accelerate modernization.
• Demonstrating engineering excellence via PoCs, architecture reviews, and continuous improvement, while ensuring high standards in testing, non‑functional readiness, observability, and resilience.
• Good to have: AI/ML (RAG, agentic workflows), Java + microservices, Angular, and data products/data governance exposure and exposure to Snowflake, Databricks.

You may be assessed on critical success skills such as Risk & Controls, Change & Transformation, Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking, Digital & Technology Skills, Deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, data engineering, AI‑driven development, and platform modernization.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.