About the Role
PTS Bank is Ireland's leading retail and SME bank, offering innovative products and services powered by an evolving digital landscape. Our focus is on delivering what our customers, colleagues, and communities need to succeed.
The Changing Nature of Banking
We're transforming banking through digital channels and empowering our colleagues with effective technology solutions. A significant Payments transformation program is underway, aiming to enhance the customer experience, redevelop delivery channels, and evolve infrastructure and operations for cost-effective, secure, and resilient services.
Senior Payments and Middleware Engineer Opportunity
This exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Payments and Middleware Engineer in our Enterprise IT Services department. This role plays a crucial part in the success of the Payments Transformation program by deploying, integrating, and supporting services that underpin the bank's digital transformation.
Responsibilities
* Functional Strategy & Delivery:
o Support existing CI/CD and Automation implementation while identifying opportunities to enhance and grow the capability.
o Collaborate with application teams to develop the Middleware capability for the organization with a common backlog.
o Eliminate repetitive tasks and enable higher-value activities through automation.
* Risk Management & Control:
o Ensure a good understanding of the risk landscape across in-scope processes.
o Proactively minimize audit findings by implementing effective solutions.
o Lead the successful remediation of current or future audit findings.
* Lead an Inspiring Culture:
o Act as a role model within the team, embodying the values of the organization.
o Encourage open discussion within the team.
* Stakeholder Engagement:
o Maintain productive and collaborative relationships across Group Technology and other teams.
o Optimize monthly reports and metrics for timely delivery with relevant updates and high accuracy.
Requirements
* Essential:
o Experience in implementing and supporting Red Hat OpenShift Container platform services.
o Strong understanding of development and SCM practices from a software development or engineering background.
o Proven experience in identifying and implementing continuous improvement through automation and process.
o Ability to lead local projects and initiatives at a technical level, ensuring effective communication to stakeholders.
o Excellent problem-solving abilities with a 'fix it for the future' mindset.
o Security policy management and its delivery within the context of automation services.
* Desired:
o Real-world experience of IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, or similar message broker solutions.
o Hands-on experience of SWIFT, SafeWatch, OPICs.
o Administration experience in Windows, Linux, Unix.
o Industry certifications in relevant technologies.
o Experience within a Financial Services environment.
About PTS Bank
PTS Bank understands the importance of championing diversity and inclusion. We aim to attract, recruit, and retain individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills, competencies, and abilities to work collaboratively and enhance the service we provide to all our customers and communities.