Development Delivery Lead - Payments - Java/Oracle

My high-profile Global Payment Processing client seeks an experienced Development Delivery Lead to technically lead, manage and coordinate the resource and processes to deliver and maintain software solutions within the Disputes component of the new Global Payments Platform.

The role holder is to ensure all projects/programmes of work in the Disputes area are appropriately assessed, designed, planned, resourced, scheduled and delivered in a timely and cost effective manner and be responsible for systems analysis, development and unit testing phases of projects assigned to this team.

As the ideal candidate you will be tasked with delivering against the following criteria:

- Technical Leadership - Lead the project team in the delivery of the design, development and testing (including Operations Analysis) components required, providing technical guidance where required, to ensure successful project delivery, to the quality required.
- Resource Management - Effective Management of team productivity, including weekly monitoring of capacity, and ensuring staff are fully utilised and all projects are staffed appropriately. Responsible for the allocation of work and management of the workload for the team.
- Quality Assurance - ensure that all appropriate procedures are applied by the team.
- Continuous improvement - ensure that software engineering processes (including tools and technical environments) are 'best' of breed, review and improve technology processes, to enable high quality but quicker project delivery for the business. Implement best practices within the Disputes area.

As the ideal candidate you will have the following skills, knowledge and background:

- Experience of Java and J2EE and associated concepts including Object-Oriented and Service-Oriented design.
- Experience of JRules.
- Experience of relational databases such as Oracle 11g/12g or IBM DB2.
- Full development life.
- Strong successful commercial experience in developing high performance/availability batch file, transactional processing solutions who have a wide variety of design and delivery exposure and who will have progressed quickly in their career to date.
- Proven track record of successful project implementations in a technical environment involving Dispute management within one or multiple payment schemes mentioned below: ACH Clearing and Disputes schemes like SEPA, SWIFT, ISO 20022, CHAPS, BACS, Faster payments, VISA, JCB, Amex, Diners or country specific interfaces.
- Experience in offshore/onsite delivery models.
- Experience in leading a team of at least 20 technical staff through the whole project life cycle on many occasions.
- Solid Line management experience managing a technical team in a full line Management capacity.
- Has worked on large programs of work and managed significant work packages within a major project.
- Knowledge of the global payments industry is desirable or a good understanding of payments transaction life cycle: Messaging flow through capture, routing, formatting/translation, transmission and auditing.

If you are interested in this excellent contract-opportunity, please send an updated copy of your CV for review immediately.

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