Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION of Java Technical Lead
Job Title: Manager/Deputy Manager Department: IT
Reports to: Vice President - IT
Required Qualification: BE/ B Tech/ MCA Preferred Qualification: BE/ B Tech/ MCA
Skill, Knowledge & Trainings:

• Strong hands-on experience with Java; full stack development
• Designs, codes, tests, debug, automate deployment and documents software.
• Contributes to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to articulate the implications of designs/architectural decisions. Issue and plans to technology leadership.
• Collaborates on the design with agile teams, product owners.
• Develops reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enhance team velocity.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.
• Drive a quality mind set within the team
• Experience with agile development methodologies and supporting tools
• Thorough understanding SDLC processes including testing methodologies; exposure to automated testing would be an added advantage
• Good Communication and Presentation skills

Core Competencies (Must have):

• Spring boot, Spring, Java, REST API and PL-SQL Technologies
• Kafka, MQ
• Redis
• Angular or React JS
• Docker and Kubernetes
• GIT
• Design Review
• Cloud Native design, Agile Methodologies

Additional Competencies (Nice to have):

• Exposure to post trade applications in Capital Markets/Treasury
• Experience in working with outsourced vendor teams for application development
• Appreciation of Enterprise Functional Architecture in Capital Markets
• Exposure to workflow technologies

Job Purpose:
The successful candidate would join the IT Department of a critical Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) organization which serves as a Qualified Central Counterparty (QCCP) for Government Securities, Money Market, FX and Derivatives transactions in the Indian financial markets.
The successful candidate would play a key role in the IT Transformation Programme which envisages a modernization of critical applications so as to align with the target state enterprise architecture, to adopt a contemporary or futuristic technology stack and tools, to improve system scalability, reliability, maintainability, and to reduce the time to market for change requests or new functionality requested by the business departments. The transformation programme is expected to be an evolution of the applications with components of functionality being carved out as per the new architecture and being delivered to production as they are completed. The successful candidate would be responsible for leading an application development team or teams through all stages of the development life cycle while also working closely with all other project stakeholders.
Involvement in project initiation activities as well as contribution to technology Proof of Concepts (PoCs) would also be a part of the role.
Area of Operations Key Responsibility
Change Management or Transformation Member of a cross functional (Business / IT / Vendor) transformation team, envisioning the target state and milestones of the programme Project Management Application Design Review, Project Estimation and Delivery Tracking, Test Cases Review, Application Support
Solution Design Evaluating solution options and proposing optimal solutions, conducting PoCs, building consensus among stakeholders
Recruitment and Team Building Developing assessment criteria, conducting interviews, guiding the development team, problem solving, setting clear goals and delivering through teams
Any Other Requirement:
Leadership skills with ability to build consensus across multiple stakeholders
Would be required to work with multiple projects / teams concurrently
Team building and Team working