The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable solutions while mentoring and grooming the team to achieve technical excellence.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Over 8+ years in software development, preferably with Trade data.
• Hands-on expertise with Java 1.8+, Apache Spark (2.3/3.x), Hadoop (Spark/HDFS/Yarn), GCP, Elastic Search, RDBMS, SQL, Unix scripting, and ETL processes.
• Do code regularly, participate in technical discussions, aligns with business objectives, and takes ownership of all technical aspects of the platform AND stay updated with relevant technologies, patterns, and tools.
• Skilled in designing data frame objects, optimizing memory usage, and understanding database/file system write operations.
• Strong background in system and solution architecture, including cluster management for Spark workloads.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture, API-centric systems, and Spring Boot (4+), including reactive programming.
• Practical knowledge of cloud deployments, especially GCP or similar providers, and cloud infrastructure optimization.
• Knowledgeable in big data concepts, DevOps methodologies, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Skilled in using Bitbucket/GitHub, Jenkins, and similar CI/CD tools; designs and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
• Provides mentorship, technical guidance, and code reviews for team members; establishes frameworks for junior developers.
• Build relationship with other technical leads and principal engineers, promotes a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented team culture; conducts performance evaluations, delivers feedback
• Prepares detailed technical designs based on functional requirements and manages technical tasks/tickets.
• Engages with business analysts, product owners, and other technical teams for requirement clarification and integration.

Principal responsibilities

• Lead/ participate in Architectural design for items aligned to Future State Architecture
• Establish, document, and implement best practices for end-to-end application initiation and deployment processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability according to project requirements.
• Attend and actively participate in relevant project meetings.
• System Performance > to ensure deliverables satisfy Non-Functional requirements 
• Industrialisation > to ensure robust solutions are being developed and tech debt reduced
• Innovation > to ensure that we are continually improving and benefitting from industry advancements
• Ensuring that assigned work packages (EPIC, Story, Sub-Tasks) aligns with definition of ready and definition of done
• Ensuring high quality Testing Automation (e.g. Unit, Functional) in place at meets agreed level for delivered outputs
• Technical excellence > influence the pod to deliver technically excellent solutions
• The technical backlog is also in areas of interest and responsibilities for Tech Lead position.Follows sets standards.

  • Ensures principles like DRY, SOLID, and Clean Code. Ensures code quality, security, and scalability.