Overview

Position Title:Digital Functional Design Lead

Company:TSB Bank

Location:Leicester, UK

Job Description:

The Digital Functional Design Lead will be overseeing the functional design of digital and mobile journeys, ensuring they align with the high-level architecture of the platform. You will use the Agile framework to facilitate workshops with stakeholders to further articulate key requirements to realise the business case. The digital strategy for the next 12 months focuses on supporting innovation in AI, Robotics and Cloud based technologies as well as driving our ‘Mobile First’ strategic agenda. It is critical that the person taking on this role has experience in leading on the detailed definition of digital products or projects, with experience of design thinking methodologies and agile working .

Responsibilities:

  • You will support the Chief Product Owner with the prioritization of technical debt and value delivery keeping both tactical and strategic challenges in mind.
  • You will peer review and continuously improve the quality of Epics, User stories and Acceptance criteria for all Digital Change projects, ensuring alignment with the Enterprise target architecture
  • You will work with product partners to deliver business value through the definition of sound and fully rounded functional design patterns for new products and Digital features
  • Have the ability and passion to coach and support Digital Engineering Feature Teams to be high performing and ‘value creation driven’
  • You will drive strategic system thinking and process improvements where relevant to deliver ‘best in class’ customer sales and servicing journeys
  • Be a champion of agile ways of working and foster knowledge sharing and collaboration across wider engineering community.
  • You will educate business change and operations colleagues about technical topics and articulate reasoning behind key technical decisions.
  • Align the engineering community to follow Financial Services Regulatory standards
  • Acts as a role model promoting DevOps culture and practices.

Requirements:

  • Strong experience with the specification and delivery of production-ready scalable microservices
  • Proven experience in system integration functional design, working with 3 RD vendors such Actimize, Experian, Ofido, First Vision, as as in solving complex system integration
  • You are familiar with system design decision making and event based architecture related to scalability, resilience and supportability.
  • Strong experience with market leading testing patterns and frameworks. Examples being Cucumber, Selenium, Junit & CypressIO.
  • Proven experience in standing up Category 1 Mobile and Web customer journeys, underpinned by robust tagging, monitoring and alerting capabilities using tools such as Dynatrace / Ansible , Splunk, Urbancode, Appdynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, etc
  • Experience across the entire software development life-cycle from inception, through build to production
  • Strong Software Engineering background and deep knowledge of agile development practices, TDD/BDD, automated builds, continuous integration, code quality metrics
  • A good understanding of Systems Thinking..

About TSB Bank

We offer friendly, honest and convenient banking that’s designed to meet our customers’ needs, not just ours. It’s what makes us different – that and our commitment to the communities we serve. We want to make banking better for everybody.