Chapter Lead (Java)

Do you want to join Danske Bank on our journey to disrupt financing processes? We are committed to be at the forefront of digital development in our pursuit to create the bank of the future. To do this we need bright minds and highly motivated individuals with pioneer spirit and a courage to challenge the way we do things.

You will join Asset Finance Tribe, based across various locations in the world. Unit is aiming to digitalize current financing processes for customers in the Nordics. The position is a unique opportunity to contribute to a non-traditional banking set-up characterized by start-up culture, high pace, agile development, flat hierarchy, and with an overarching customer-focused approach.

This Agile technical leadership position combines sound development skills needed to perform day-by-day tasks in squad as well as HR leadership responsibilities for up to 10 Java backend developers.

Responsibilities:

• As Chapter Lead you are an innovative and energetic leader. You blend deep chapter area expertise with a passion for coaching and developing others;
• You will serve as a “coach & player” spending part of your time on managing your Chapter by advising on how to complete tasks in the best possible way. You will spend remaining bigger part of your time as a doer in a Squad delivering value by completing tasks
• You strive to be a knowledge leader within Java domain of expertise
• You will be defining developing engineering guidelines incl. practices to improve the work of chapter
• You will coach and develop chapter members across multiple squads helping them grow professionally
• You will carry the HR responsibility for your Chapter members, as they will report to you as their line manager. This includes classical HR responsibilities, performance reviews, trainings, recruitment activities
• You will be part of Asset Finance Tribe Agile leadership team which consists of Agile Coaches, Chapter Leads, Product Owners, Architects and Tribe leaders
• You will work with Spring Boot based micro services
• You will build RESTful services based on PaaS OpenShift platform
• Your work will have direct impact and will bring significant benefits for Asset Finance business in Nordic countries

Essential:

• 5+ years of experience in software development (Java) covering all phases from design and build to deploy and run
• Will to take leadership role with HR responsibilities
• As a leader You need to be committed to empower and facilitate others’ development
• Java 8+ experience
• Spring boot knowledge
• REST, RESTful and micro services, and API design
• Databases and SQL knowledge
• JPA knowledge
• CI/CD pipelines
• Git
• Agile and test-driven development
• Ready to challenge the status quo, to take initiative and responsibility and to be a leading player in a self-organizing and agile set-up
• Able to share ideas and best practices
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken – and are ready to communicate on a daily basis with team-members across locations

Preferred:

• Experience in Agile people management
• OpenShift cloud infrastructure
• SQL Server
• RabbitMQ messaging
• Basic understanding of different banking domains and the correlation between each other