Director - Technology Program/Project Management - Java/J2ee - BFSI Domain

Job Description: Technology Lead/Director

Job Title : Hands-on Technology Lead/Director

Keywords : Java Architect/Code Czar/Platform Integrity/Dev Discipline

Job Responsibilities:

- Manage a development team and own project deliveries.

- Architect, design, and develop software applications

- Mentor dev team on good object-oriented designs, patterns, domain modeling and coding standards.

- Motivate a team and create a strong culture of engineering excellence.

- Refine/Establish design/coding standards and guidelines; and communicate to team.

- Enforce Agile best practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, and test automation.

- Cultivate a technical backlog with team leads to upgrade platforms continuously and proactively.

- Analyze and trouble-shoot production issues; build fault tolerance and operational readiness into the system architecture with a focus on operationally ready solutions.

- Be a software and architecture guardian; own non-functional requirements, architectural direction, and quality of the code while addressing technical debt.

- Take ownership of the success of the team with a "gets things done" attitude; the ability to understand and leverage new technologies, potentially wearing many hats including Business Analyst, DBA, QA, and Project Manager.

Requirements:

- Eight or more years of experience; at least five as a developer/architect and three as a manager.

- Strong leadership capabilities and excellent communication skills.

- Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of enterprise Java web applications.

- A deep understanding of scalability and high-availability systems is a must-have.

- Strong knowledge of and the ability to mentor a team on object-oriented design, including design patterns, test-driven development, continuous integration, and test automation.

- Experience in operations including managing live production applications and monitoring, remedying, and managing incidents.

- Good understanding of RESTful service design, API design, and best practices for building resilient and maintainable distributed systems.

- Experience in Unix based systems.

- Domain knowledge on Investment Research, accounting and market securities is a plus.