Job Description

Role Title: Lead Software Engineer
Position Summary:
Participates as a senior team member in the design, development, and maintenance of multi-tiered business applications. Individuals holding this position are typically expected to be mentors from
technical and delivery perspectives as well as work independently as a member of a team. Incumbents have a thorough understanding of available technology landscape, tools, and existing designs. This
individual also participates fully in all team practices and standards. This role interfaces with IT colleagues and other stakeholders to evaluate defined complex business requirements and processes,
assesses available technologies, determines infrastructure, and recommends solution options. Incumbents play a significant role in building application solutions which may involve diverse
development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, and tools. Demonstrates personal accountability and actively engages the team in demonstrating accountability. Supports quality efforts
within the team.
Job Responsibilities:
Analysis & Design:

• Analyzes impact of requirements and works with Solution Architects on software solutions. Must consider usability, extensibility, efficiency, and performance during all phases of development.
• Applies design patterns to build secure, maintainable, testable, and evolvable software to ensure coherence across applications.
• Participates in designing software solutions and prepares technical documentation taking into consideration the Enterprise Architecture including authoritative sources of data, data & systems integration, and interrelationships across multiple subject areas (including transformation rules).
• Participates and leads design reviews. Contributes to the product backlogs.
• Assists in scheduling backlog items in the optimal execution order and ensures that the backlog is comprehensive. Advocates adoption of Enterprise initiatives. Helps develop business relationships and integrate activities with other IT departments as appropriate to ensure successful implementation and support efforts.

Development:

• Estimation: Develops & facilitates technical estimates and timeframes without having complete information and provides confidence level in estimate. Mentors others in good estimation techniques.
• Coding: Mentors developers in the design and construction of complex business applications and prepares technical specifications to develop software solutions. Leads by example adoption of FM best practices, architectural principles, and security standards. Leads the evolution and improvement of these standards and practices. Develops software to transform and migrate data across environments. Actively participates in peer code reviews and is responsible for code quality.
• Test Automation: Responsible for writing pre-deployment automated tests for any delivered code. Participates in testing and debugging of overall system as required. Reviews automated test code to ensure appropriate test coverage. Demonstrates ability to setup and monitor automated tests in the CICD pipeline. Makes decisions regarding where to focus and improve the efficiency, coverage, and stability of automated tests. Participates in coding and maintenance of post deployment test automation frameworks.
• Support: Supports and plans effort to implement application in production and support post-production. Ensures development work includes detailed, high quality documentation at appropriate level to allow for maintenance and support. Plans and executes reduction of technical debt and mitigates risks associated with upgrades. Contributes to the FM security standard process and ensures that technologies and security policies are implemented to support those standards. Recommends and implements solutions to identified gaps.

Research:

• Participates in continuous improvement through experimentation to stay abreast of the changing technological landscape and clearly articulates and presents value to the product organization. Engages in delivery of applicable enterprise initiatives. Actively participates within learning forums and contributes to setting forum objectives. Deeply understands the technology/business landscape.

Leadership:

• Encourages team member contribution within design and implementation efforts within product teams. Serve as a role model in delivery accountability, process, and mindset. Demonstrates and continuously broadens technical capabilities and domain knowledge where individual could serve effectively on a variety of product teams. Enables successful outcomes on teams by proactively identifying and raising transparency of impediments. Mentors junior team members. Fosters teamwork and excellent communication among team members. Provides meaningful feedback.

Skill and Experience:

• 5 to 7 years of experiencerequired to perform essential job functions.
• Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): 7+ years of application development experience with large scale business applications in a fastpaced iterative development environment. 5+ years designing, developing, and implementing business applications from business concept through production.
• Object-oriented design, development, and implementation of business applications in current computing architectures. Working knowledge of relevant technologies: front end tools, middleware, Databases, ORMs, development frameworks, design patterns, API design, Test Automation, DevOps, Cloud Architecture, and Enterprise Integration Patterns. Ability to demonstrate skills in solving complex problems within and across teams. Strong analytical skills required. Ability to develop accurate estimates for complex solutions and brings transparency to the estimation process. Demonstrates drive to align estimates to meet organizational goals. Strong interpersonal skills are required. Strong work ethic and ability to demonstrate personal accountability for successful product delivery. Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to translate technical concepts to the appropriate level of the audience. Ability to work self-directed as part of a cross-functional team and shows commitment to the product and team. Instills a sense of urgency in the team and focuses the team on efficient delivery. Ability to present technical concepts is desired.

Must Have Skills:

• Enterprise SDLC: Strong experience with the full software development lifecycle in enterprise environments.
• Programming Languages: Proficient in HTML, CSS, .NET, C#, JavaScript, and SQL. Cloud & Containerization: Skilled in cloud-native development and container technologies.
• Software Quality & Security: Deep understanding of software quality assurance, security principles, and best practices.
• Integration & Deployment: Experience with API design, REST APIs, GraphQL (a plus), unit testing, code reviews, refactoring, and deployment processes.
• C# & WPF Development: Working knowledge of C#, WPF, and the MVVM design pattern.
• Software Design Patterns: Familiarity with common software architecture and design principles.
• ORM Tools: Basic understanding of NHibernate or similar Object-Relational Mapping tools.
• SQL & Reporting: Experience with SQL, data queries, and foundational reporting concepts.
• Version Control & Learning Mindset: Proficient with Git and a willingness to learn integration and data warehousing concepts."

Education and Certifications:
Work location: Bengaluru

• 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, Computer Science Related

Skills Required