Tech Lead - Ab Initio / Spark ETL – AVP – C12 - Pune

The Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex global software solutions
• Experience of developing teams of permanent employees and vendors from 5 – 20 developers in size
• Build and sustain strong relationships with the senior business leaders associated with the platform
• Design, code, test, document and implement application release projects as part of development team.
• Work with onsite development partners to ensure design and coding best practices.
• Work closely with Program Management and Quality Control teams to deliver quality software to agreed project schedules.
• Proactively notify Development Project Manager of risks, bottlenecks, problems, issues, and concerns.
• Compliance with Citi's System Development Lifecycle and Information Security requirements.
• Oversee development scope, budgets, time line documents
• Monitor, update and communicate project timelines and milestones; obtain senior management feedback; understand potential speed bumps and client’s true concerns/needs.
• Understanding technology industry trends, how they impact our future solutions and provide strategic direction for the development community.
• Drive quality initiatives

Key Challenges:

• Managing time and changing priorities in a dynamic environment
• Ability to provide quick turnaround to software issues and management requests
• Ability to assimilate key issues and concepts and come up to speed quickly

Qualifications and Competencies

• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years of Ab Initio application design and development experience
• Minimum 6 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully
• Demonstrated people and technical management skills
• Strong understanding of ETL analysis and design, frameworks on Ab Initio
• experience in developing and managing big data solutions using Apache Spark. Having strong hold on Spark-core, Spark-SQL & Spark Streaming
• Minimum 6 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully.
• Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, or Python.
• Hands on experience on Technologies like Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, HBase, Couchbase, Sqoop, Flume etc.
• Demonstrated excellent software development skills. Strong experiences in implementation of complex file transformations like positional, xmls.
• Experience in building enterprise ETL based system with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance.
• Experience in building Multi file system and Serial file system applications and troubleshooting complex issues related to it.
• Experience in working on JMS / MQ applications.
• Experience in working multiple OS (Unix, Linux, Win)
• Experience developing solutions involving ETL any Big Data concepts
• Experience in performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes
• Strong Database experience (Oracle/PL-SQL)
• Understanding of internetworking concepts, firewall, communication protocols is a plus
• Knowledge of Web security framework

Key Competencies:

• Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task
• Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly
• Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.
• Proactive problem-solver
• Relationship builder and team player
• Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills
• Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Good analytical and business skills
• Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams
• Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in other ETL Tools like Talend or Spark.
• Experience of migrating functionality from ETL tools to Spark.
• Experience/knowledge on Cloud technologies AWS, GCP. 
• Experience in Financial industry
• ETL Certification, Project Management Certification
• Experience with Commercial Cards applications and processes would be advantageous
• Experience with Agile methodology

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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