*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full time role*

A prestigious company is on the search for a Director, Technical Project Manager. This is a technical/functional position and they will be managing over 4-10 people in these projects. They need someone who has a technical background with Java development, AWS, Kafka, Big data, etc. They also are looking for someone in a Real Time environment with financial industry experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development of solution and provide technical directions and project management support to the team executing on Renaissance initiative
• Solicit business and technical requirements. Help translating those into flexible, scalable and resilient design proposals.
• Review architecture proposals with tech leads as well as senior business partners.
• Provide technical directions by analysing designs and reviewing code to achieve high quality software deliveries for the team.
• Create strategies and transition plans, prioritize work, drive book of work and manage deliveries of the projects.
• Following agile development methodology, facilitate all agile ceremonies, operate as technical product owner and collaborating with stakeholders drive the projects to its successful completion.
• Manage development of core foundational technical components as well as select functional projects.
• Manage resources against commitments to ensure high quality solutions are consistently delivered to established expectations.

Qualifications:

• Operate effectively as a member of the wider team through partnership, collaboration and influencing across the relevant business and technology functions and partner with leads in other technology domains.
• Create and adhere to delivery roadmaps partnering with other leaders. Strong execution mindset.
• Solutions architecture experience. Ability to design and develop high performance and flexible solutions.
• Familiarity with Hadoop and/or other Big Data ecosystems required.
• Experience in Real Time solutions leveraging Kafka and other event driven technologies
• Experience with cloud computing required. AWS preferred.
• An ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing
• Java development background with good understanding of advance object-oriented software development techniques.
• Minimum of 12 years' development experience within the financial industry preferred
• Experience developing high performance data and compute platforms at scale. Experience delivering cloud native projects preferred.
• Experience coaching Agile transformation efforts and leading Agile (preferably Scrum) development.
• Preferred - prior leadership experience in guiding teams through cultural transformation.
• Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science or a technical discipline. Master's degree preferred.