(this position requires fluent Finnish & English language skills!)

Are you a diplomatic Dev Lead, who has the technical acumen in Java + legacy + devops, with the personality to develop, design, architect, and inspire? Have you led or supported overseas dev teams, or distributed agile teams before? If you have a combination of legacy technologies with modern ones and can help drive one of the biggest transformations to the cloud in all of OP, this is the one.
 
OP’s DevOps culture:
First we were the iconic Finnish banking and insurance brand (for a century). Then we embarked upon an ambitious company-wide Agile transformation. Now three years into this OP Ketterä, we have had an army of consultants testing and measuring our software delivery performance, our team performance, maturity metrics, the tools we’re using, and how this and we are all working together. The result? Our organization wide maturity assessment puts us at the top of DevOps & Agile transformations, .
 
70:20:10.
We now have ‘permission’ to improve our individual skills, to build up the competences we personally feel would help us evolve. You are encouraged to learn and grow (at work!). This working model organizes our ways of working into 70% ‘business as usual’, 20% improving operations and continuous improvement, and 10% building up new competences and learning and growing as humans. Modern Working culture at its best.
 
OP Software Academy / DevOps Academy
We have an internal coaching organization which is educating our people to enable our Teams towards AWS and cloud, towards helping teams achieve a higher pace of releases. We have a growing concentration on quality and cybersecurity, reducing capabilities of impact time, automating wherever possible, faster experimentations. This group is a driving force for engineering and DevOps, which continues to increase steadily.
 
Covid:
Our culture has responded incredibly well to today’s global chaos. From ways of working to well-being, our Agile organization and empathetic leadership accommodates the uncertainty with support, and vigor. Our virtual teams and home offices blend well with how strict we are with limiting visits to our office, to be sparse, and distanced. And interviewing and hiring too, has continued with the same pace and level of professionalism as before.

The Team/Tribe: Loans/Mortgages
In terms of the financials, this is OP’s biggest and most important money making tribe. Close to 40% of all mortgages taken by Finns, are managed by our systems at OP! We were the first to experiment with Agile, and now everyone is looking at how we will navigate a massive migration away from legacy, as a major renewal into the cloud and more modern systems. You will get to participate in that (which some would find incredibly interesting). This will have a big impact on critical functionality, and a big impact on OP business in general (no pressure!).

In addition to saving the world, another reason to join is that there are a lot of similarities between this Lead Developer role, and the next step up to Tech Lead. If you can see yourself one day leaving coding behind, you can learn the ways of that pathway in this role.

The Job:
You are responsible for development, design and architecture for 2 teams of developers in Finland, and one abroad. As requirements come in, you will be checking the way these are transforming to implementation, with design in between. You’ll be paying attention to the backlog to help the Product Owner with her prioritization, on business needs and technical constraints.

With the teams you will be developing (hands-on dirty work), along with the developers, supporting them and giving them guidelines to help them navigate complex issues. As ‘shaper’ you will diplomatically blend the spirit and working style of these teams, making sure everyone remains united and focused.

You will not be alone of course! You will have a strong ring of other Dev Leads, and our Tech Lead, and Tech people within the Tribe. We are a very close developer community inside OP.

As said, this Lead Dev role is similar to a Tech Lead role, in the architecture and devops transfer area among teams. The key objectives of this role: make sure our 3 teams can handle the system, and make sure that this whole architecture of legacy systems are working properly.

Requirements:
JAVA hands-on coding capability and expertise
JBoss and Oracle as application servers
Spring, Spring Boot
AWS
React.js
Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, CI / CD pipelines
Robot framework
IBM DB2, Cobol
REST, SOAP WS

Other skills Required
Knowledge and experience in software development: from definition to dosing, testing and production export
Ability to guide and support team members in development work
Ability to consult and assist the Product Owner and stakeholders outside the team
Ability to create and develop team architecture and technical roadmap
DevOps understanding

Process:
Please apply with your English CV and cover letter asap, as we will interview and hire the best person without delay! If you have questions about this role, please direct them in your cover letter. You will have a phone screen with a recruiter, then a brief few coding questions, then a Teams interview with our two hiring managers. You will next have a team Teams interview, followed by the traditional online / background assessments, then offer discussion and victory parade.

Good luck! We look forward to meeting you!

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