Lead Manager, Application Development

For over 235 years, Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has been at the center of the global financial markets, providing the world’s leading institutions the tools, capabilities, and services to be distinctive investors. We power individuals and institutions to succeed in the global economy providing investment management, investment services and wealth management. 
With a dedicated business presence on six continents and in 35 countries, BNY Mellon delivers global scale at the local level. The Global Delivery Centre in Wroclaw is a growing location, predominately providing support services to BNY Mellon entities in the areas of fund accounting, investment operations and technology.
Our organizational culture stands on solid values – Integrity, Strength in Diversity, Passion for Excellence and Courage to Lead. Our guiding principles drive us to always do what’s right, helping everyone feel included on the way, to take the risks necessary to lead and get things done.

Organizational Overview:
Trust & Depository team in Wroclaw is part of the wider EMEA Asset Servicing Technology group and it is focused primarily on delivering and maintaining IT solutions that simplify and smoothen the depository oversight process. In particular, this involves working on a system that help the operation teams in making sure that all the transactions being serviced within EMEA are compliant with rigorous financial markets regulatory requirements. 

Delivery Model:
• The team is involved in the delivery of primarily new strategic solutions (Greenfield development) or major augmentations of existing platform
• All responsibilities fall within the team to deliver front-to-back solutions
• We promote and utilize a Lean Agile framework to allow for incremental development of new components and systems – and we apply DevOps principles (DoD, code reviews, test-driven development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment)
• We deliver solutions following microservices architectural principles 
• The team is focused on client delivery, embracing feedback from our customers at all stages of the process and regular self-review of our operating model
• Collaboration with other teams and continuous learning are critical to our culture 

Tech Stack and Tooling:
• Front End: Angular 6, Bootstrap, Angular Material, Selenium
• Back End: Java (8, 11), Spring, Spring Integration, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
• Deployment: Private cloud infrastructure (VMs or containers), Docker, Sonar, Ansible, Gitlab
• Development and Knowledge Base: IntelliJ, JIRA, Confluence
• Methodology: Scrum & Kanban

Your role:  
• Day to day leading of a 3-7 people team
• End-to-end delivery of assigned projects, which includes leading discussions with business stakeholders, owning solution design, driving execution, and ensuring end-to-end testing 
• Presenting results of the team’s work
• Providing coaching and technical steering to members of the team 
• Technical and business fluency: the ability to adjust language to the intended audience.  In particular, the ability to distil technical concepts into plain language that the business can understand
• A desire to lead: setting stretch but achievable goals, motivating others, guiding your team’s career paths
• Flexibility in terms of leading a team but also contributing as an individual
• Creative thinking and the ability to embrace new subject matter outside of your comfort zone
• An execution-first mindset: willing to roll up your sleeves when needed and jump into source code
• Advocacy of the servant leader philosophy and craftsmanship
• Able to navigate in a global company with teams across the world