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Job Description: Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst (C13) – Java Full Stack

Job Title: Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst (Java Full Stack)
Job Level / Band: C13 (Vice President )
Primary Location: [Pune/ Hybrid]
Function / Group: Technology / Applications Development

Role Overview

The Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst (Java Full Stack) is a senior-level technical leadership role responsible for establishing, designing, and delivering high-quality, scalable application systems and software solutions in coordination with cross-functional technology teams. The overall objective of this role is to drive end-to-end applications systems analysis, architectural alignment, full-stack software engineering, and implementation activities across distributed enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery

• System Integration & Product Delivery: Partner with engineering managers, product owners, and multi-disciplinary teams to establish architectural roadmaps, integrate enterprise services, and deliver core system enhancements and new digital capabilities.
• Architecture & Engineering Standards: Ensure software and application designs strictly adhere to enterprise architecture blueprints, security baselines, and industry best practices.
• Complex Problem Resolution: Resolve high-impact, critical engineering and architectural challenges through in-depth evaluation of complex business flows, technical bottlenecks, system dependencies, and industry standards.
• Coding & Quality Governance: Define, champion, and enforce engineering standards for clean code, design patterns, automated unit/integration testing, debugging, code reviews, and release readiness.
• Cross-Functional Domain Alignment: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of how application architecture, infrastructure, data management, and business capabilities integrate to achieve business objectives.

Innovation, AI-Augmented Engineering & Coaching

• Innovative Problem-Solving: Apply interpretive thinking and structured analysis to identify complex technical problems, proposing modern, scalable, and resilient technical solutions.
• AI-First Software Delivery: Actively leverage generative AI and modern developer-productivity tools to accelerate software delivery cycles, streamline automated test creation, refactor legacy code, and elevate code quality.
• Mentorship & Team Guidance: Serve as a technical advisor and mentor to mid-level software engineers and analysts, leading technical discussions and delegating engineering tasks effectively.

Risk, Compliance & Governance

• Risk & Controls Assessment: Appropriately assess risk when business and technical decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding client assets.
• Regulatory & Policy Compliance: Drive compliance with applicable laws, rules, and enterprise standards; apply sound ethical judgment; and escalate, manage, and report control issues with full transparency.

Qualifications & Technical Competencies

1. Core Backend Software Engineering (Java)

• Java Mastery: Advanced, hands-on expertise with Java (Java 17 / 21) and the modern enterprise Java ecosystem.
• Frameworks: Extensive experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Hibernate / JPA.
• Microservices Architecture: Proven track record of architecting, implementing, and deploying high-throughput, low-latency, resilient, and secure microservices and distributed processing systems.
• Messaging & Event-Driven Systems: Hands-on experience with asynchronous messaging and event streaming technologies (Apache Kafka, Solace, or JMS).
• API Standards: Expertise designing and developing enterprise-grade RESTful APIs and gRPC services with strong authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS).

2. Modern Frontend Engineering (React / Angular)

• Frontend Frameworks: Deep practical experience building modern, responsive web applications using React and/or Angular with TypeScript and modern ECMAScript (ES6+).
• State Management & Reactive Programming: Proficiency in state management patterns (Redux / NgRx) and reactive streams using RxJS.
• Modern UI & Micro-Frontends: Hands-on experience with Micro-Frontend architectures, standalone components, dynamic routing, and complex enterprise data grids (e.g., AG Grid Enterprise, Elemental UI / Design System components).
• Web Fundamentals & Real-Time Data: Strong mastery of HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, DOM manipulation, responsive layouts, and bidirectional communication protocols (WebSockets / Server-Sent Events).

3. Database & Data Engineering

• Relational Databases (RDBMS): Deep experience with relational data modeling, schema design, advanced SQL tuning, and query optimization on enterprise databases (Oracle,).
• NoSQL Data Stores: Practical experience designing, indexing, and maintaining document/key-value NoSQL databases (MongoDB/Couchbase).
• High Availability & Scalability: Solid understanding of database clustering, indexing strategies, replica sets, connection pooling, and caching strategies .

4. CI/CD, Containerization & Cloud Operations

• Containers & Orchestration: Proven experience containerizing applications using Docker and deploying onto container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes / Red Hat OpenShift).
• Enterprise CI/CD Pipelines: Hands-on proficiency configuring automated build, test, and release pipelines using modern enterprise platforms (Harness, Jenkins, Tekton, or GitHub Actions) in Linux environments.
• Job Scheduling & Batch Systems: Familiarity with enterprise workload automation and job schedulers (Autosys or equivalent).
• Quality & Security Tooling: Experience integrating automated code quality, dependency management, and vulnerability scanning tools (SonarQube, Snyk, Checkmarx).

5. AI-Assisted Engineering

• AI-First Tooling: Demonstrated proficiency integrating Generative AI developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or internal LLM coding assistants) into daily development workflows to enhance productivity, code generation, and test coverage.

Education & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent; Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience: 6–10+ years of progressive, hands-on experience in full-stack software engineering and application architecture, with demonstrated experience leading technical delivery within enterprise environments.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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