About Us
At PTSB, we're one of Ireland's leading retail and SME banks, dedicated to delivering what our customers, colleagues, and communities need to thrive.
Our Focus
We're centered on ensuring seamless digital experiences for our customers through innovative products and services. Our evolving digital landscape is changing the nature of banking, and we're focused on enabling our colleagues with effective technology solutions.
Payments Transformation Program
We've embarked on a significant Payments transformation program, aiming to provide cost-effective, secure, and resilient services to our customers. This program will lead to an enhanced customer experience through re-development of delivery channels and evolution of our infrastructure and operations.
Senior Payments and Middleware Engineer Role
This role plays a crucial part in the success of our Payments Transformation program by deploying, integrating, and supporting a suite of services that underpin our digital transformation. We're seeking candidates with a track record in delivering, supporting, and optimizing services in the Financial/Banking space, with experience in containerization and DevOps methodologies.
Key Responsibilities:
* Support existing CI/CD and Automation implementation while identifying opportunities for enhancement and growth.
* Collaborate with application teams to progress Middleware capability development and maintain a common backlog.
* Eliminate repetitive tasks and enable focus on higher-value activities through automation.
* Maintain ongoing service and cyber security integrity of our technology stack.
Risk Management & Control
* Ensure good understanding of risk landscape across in-scope processes.
* Proactively minimize audit findings by implementing effective and permanent solutions.
* Support successful remediation of findings from current or future audits.
Lead an Inspiring Culture
* Act as a role model within the team, embodying the values of the organization.
* Sustain a culture of open discussion within the team.
Stakeholder Engagement
* Maintain productive and collaborative relationships across Group Technology and other teams.
* Optimize, deliver, and update monthly reports and metrics with high accuracy.
Requirements:
* Experience in implementing and supporting services on Red Hat OpenShift Container platform.
* Software development or engineering background with strong understanding of development and SCM practices.
* Proven experience in identifying and implementing continuous improvement through automation and process.
* Ability to lead local projects and initiatives at a technical level, ensuring effective communication to stakeholders.
Desirable Skills:
* Real-world experience of IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, and/or similar message broker solutions.
* Hands-on experience of SWIFT, SafeWatch, OPICs.
* Hands-on administration experience in Windows, Linux, Unix.
* Industry certifications in relevant technologies desired.
* Experience within a Financial Services environment.