Leads the design, architecture, development, integration, and delivery of scalable Java full-stack enterprise applications. Builds microservices, APIs, React or Angular interfaces, database solutions, and CI/CD pipelines while enforcing engineering, security, testing, and governance standards. Resolves complex technical issues, applies AI-assisted development tools, and mentors engineering teams. Requires strong experience with Java, Spring, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, messaging, databases, frontend frameworks, and enterprise software delivery.
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
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 ResponsibilitiesTechnical 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.
- 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 & 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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 .
- 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).
- 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: 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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Job Family Group: Technology------------------------------------------------------
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