
Java Lead
- Job Req Id:
- 25890007
- Location(s):
- Pune, India
- Job Type:
- Hybrid
- Posted:
- Aug. 17, 2025
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Job Overview
- This application development senior manager position is based in Pune, India and is required to focus on leading a highly skilled team for design and development of delivery of scalable, robust application design and development for regulatory reporting solutions.
- We are looking for a hands-on senior developer manager having experience in the latest open-source tech stack to build robust, clean back-end APIs and front-end interfaces.
- You will be expected to manage end to end delivery of applications, applying user-centered design processes to create high quality user experiences, and reusable patterns and assets for various products, including designing and maintaining common components.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a visionary and strategist for solution/application/system across the platform.
- Provide expertise to identify and translate system requirement into software design artifacts.
- Good in programming and solving problems.
- Drive experiments to assess new solutions /application paths.
- Lead/participate formation of architecture roadmap for the regulatory space in Citi.
- To work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges at appropriate time to address project delivery risks.
- Follow industry wide best practices to minimize technical debt of software deliverables.
- Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborate to provide estimates, develop overall implementation solutions/application plan, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization and integration efforts.
Skills Required
Experience with designing /architecting scalable software that processes, persists and distributes data via relational and non-relational technologies:
- 10+ years of experience in design and development of medium to large-scale applications using open-source tech stack – Java 21, Spring boot, Spring batch, Microservices, Kafka, Kafka Streams.
- At least 5 years of experience in application development leadership role in large, global, financial services organization.
- Experience with databases: Oracle, No SQL databases, PL/SQL.
- Experience in System design and architecting applications components.
- Experience in writing unit test and integration test using standard frameworks, ensuring minimized technical debt.
- Experience in building CI CD pipeline and single click deployment -Jenkins, uDeploy, bitbucket.
- Experience in UNIX environment, UNIX scripts etc. will be added advantage.
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple concurrent initiative.
- Functional and Technical Specs documentation.
- Experience with testing concepts (TDD, BDD) and Junit
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
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:
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Job Family:
Applications Development------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:
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