Senior Java Developer Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Java Developer Lead for UTIFLocation: Chennai

• Operation Technology Services are seeking a dynamic Senior Java Developer/Lead with experience delivering innovative solutions in close collaboration with the Business.
• Reporting to the offshore head for the US Settlements Business, the candidate will play a pivotal role in the execution of the strategy, identifying opportunities to realise the strategic architecture within the constraints of regulatory milestones. The individual will be required to work closely with colleagues across Operation Technology Services (Trade Processing, Operation Data Store and Data Distribution) to ensure the technical solution leverages common components, standard proven patterns and engineering principles.
• This is a great opportunity to help drive forward the strategy of a major expanding area within this global Bank on a strategy programme of work

What will you be doing 30% - Technical Leadership

• Liaising with BAs and Project Managers for clarity development requirements
• Collaborating with business analysts and senior colleagues in order to determine the functional and technical specifications
• Developing work breakdown structures and detailed estimates, assisting in project planning and related project artefacts
• Highlight risks and opportunities, planning mitigating actions and documenting them in a log
• Liaising closely with Dev manager in managing India resource utilization
• Hands-on involvement with the design of solutions
• Perform reviews of technical specifications, code and artifacts produced by the team
• Oversight of the development team during the implementation of the solution
• Liaising closely with the test teams to ensure that QA processes are relevant and thorough
• Working with the release teams to ensure smooth deliveries
• Reviewing the progress of a project according to its plan, maintaining and reporting status updates to the development manager and stake holders
• Ensure processes and practices are followed, documentation is complete, comprehensive and signed off, and defects are tracked & closed
• Hands on development, organize and provide support during SIT, QA and UAT test phases
• Provide technical expertise on Java 1.8, Spring, Spring Integration, AWS, Scala and Cloudera Hadoop

30% - Implementation of Strategy for US Settlements Area

• Understand the current state v/s strategic state for US Settlements IT area.
• Work closely with the US Leads as well as the Offshore teams for the implementation for the strategy
• Consolidate similar functionalities across different applications into the strategic platforms and decommission the legacy ones.
• Decommission legacy technologies and migrate to more recent Java and Cloud based platforms.
• Lead the build and development of the Exception manager application from the offshore team

25% - Line Management (required per circumstances)

• Line managing a team of several developers
• Improving the capability of the team through coaching, mentoring and training.
• Following and improving the software engineering processes
• Conducting appraisal rounds, writing and delivering management reviews.
• Organising frequent 1:1 meetings and developing personal development plans for team members.
• Providing KT (Knowledge Transition) to junior and new members of the team

10% - Communication and Administration

• Coordinating with SMEs and BAs to conduct regular Knowledge Transfer (KT) to development team and enhancing the overall business skills within the group
• Acting as a point of contact within Pune for individual projects

5% - Release and Tier 3 Support

• Ensure release plans and coordinating release walkthroughs with the environment managers and RTB teams
• Acting as a escalation point of contact for support team, investigating and resolving issues found in production
• Providing on-call support for releases where necessary
• Ensure requests from the RTB support team is promptly responded
• Handle technical issues that are out of scope for the support staff.

What were looking for:

• A degree in engineering, computer science or a quantitative discipline e.g. statistics, physics or mathematics preferred.
• work experience in a relevant IT industry, & experience as a tech lead
• Eexperience of core java, server-side multi threaded java using a industry standard framework such as Spring Framework, Spring Events, Spring Integration
• Experience of Scala / Big data
• Exposure to one of more of HDFS, HBase, Impala, Hive, Avro, Oozie, Spark and Solr
• Experience in database Oracle, SQL Server
• Analytical skills; ability to investigate and resolve issues in a high-pressured environment
• Strong ability to analyze data; attention to detail and good quantitative ability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a good command over English and ability to explain complex technical and functional topics in simple terms over the phone.
• Positive team player
• A highly-motivated individual; confident, proactive, enthusiastic, willing to learn and use initiative.
• Played the lead role in an investment bank
• Investment Banking Experience

Skills that will help you in the role:

• The candidate is expected to be a strong technologist with experience of both application and data architectures
• Bachelors degree (or above) in Computer Science or related discipline
• Experience of working as a developer in a collaborative but disciplined agile delivery environment
• Desirable to have experience of agile delivery in a data centric, regulatory environment

Where will you be working

• Chennai

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Keyskills :
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