Ascentech Services Limited is a full-fledged Human Resource Solution Provider incorporated in 2013 with its Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria. We are committed to forging long-term partnerships with our clients by creating and delivering robust and flexible services that address the changing needs of their business.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Core Banking Engineer

Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 6 Month – Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the core platform team and coordinates with the Digital team members
• Work cross-functionally as part of the platform team lead designing/creating/deploying APIs, new data transformations, managing databases, and supporting production operations
• Lead the creation of tools for infrastructure management, monitoring, and scalability
• Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture to set clear goals, delegate tasks and set deadlines
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics
• Lead building and maintaining development and deployment tools for the stack
• Work with engineering and research teams to architect and deploy their
• algorithms, provide operational support for or new and existing applications and debug production issues
• Create, deploy, configure, support and troubleshoot issues with networked application environments

Knowledge Requirements

• B.Eng or equivalent Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong understanding of the stored procedure languages used by the core banking systems
• 8+ years of software design and development experience
• 3+ years of experience in applying modern frameworks and patterns to build
• highly scalable enterprise SaaS applications
• Proven track record implementing core banking platforms in banking or fintech domains
• Solid experience working with Thought Machine with hands-on experience working with core-banking systems like Finacle banking solution, Temenos Infrastructure, Vault
• Strong Java/J2EE experience, Hibernate, JMS, Spring (Core, MVC, Integration),
• REST APIs, MySQL
• Strong knowledge of core banking platforms and how to expose the core banking capabilities as consumable services (RESTful services)
• Familiar with SDLC tools (working knowledge of Agile software development a plus)
• Ant, Maven, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Travis, Puppet, Ansible, Docker knowledge beneficial
• Experience with Agile methodology, test-driven development, source control management, and automated testing
• Excellent communication skills
• Banking industry experience is a must

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2024.