First Data - Technical Leader

First Data is a global leader in commerce-enabling technology solutions, serving more than six million business locations and 4,000 financial institutions in 118 countries around the world. Our 23,000 owner-associates are dedicated to helping companies, from start-ups to the world's largest corporations, conduct commerce every day by securing and processing more than 2,300 transactions per second and $1.9 trillion per year. First Data is committed to staying at the forefront of our industry, and we are innovating a wide range of next-generation commerce technology solutions to help our clients better detect fraud, gain insights into consumer spending patterns and build customer loyalty. There are many exciting opportunities for talented individuals who would like to join our team and play a meaningful role in helping us shape the future of global commerce.

Architectural Background

- Architect and design high-quality, high-performance business technology solutions that meet the requirements defined to solve a business need.

- Design services / applications and develop distributed, highly scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant systems focused on creating solutions within Microservice architecture

- Strong problem solving, analytical and programming skills with a strong understanding of principles behind the software architecture

Technical Expertise

- Expert knowledge of: JEE, Spring Framework, Cloud and container architectures (preferable Pivotal Cloud Foundry), Hibernate / JPA, RESTful and Web services

- Strong understanding of: Web Security, Relational Databases, Linux, JBoss, Spring Boot

- Experience in taking the projects from the requirements phase to the delivery phase using the full software development life cycle.

Leader in End-to-End Software Development

- Advices / Leads application architects on various projects and manage all of the technical aspects of medium-scale projects, and manage small projects from requirement phase through to deployment and production handover

- Slice projects into work packages and distribute those to internal, external and offshore developer members

- Track development progress

- Plan / build / configure / develop solutions within the specified timelines.

- Develop system test plans to ensure a comprehensive approach to delivering quality technology solutions to the business. Address all reported defects within a timely fashion.

- Initiate and coordinate production handover. Ensure success of setting new versions into production. On-Call duty for supporting the production handover.

- Stay active and current in business technology trends, direction and innovation related to business process and technology areas of focus for the position.

Educational & Soft Skills

- 20+ years of Experience required.BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience. Masters degree in Computer Science preferred.

- Quick learner, eager to leverage new technologies in a dynamic team environment

- Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills

- Demonstrated ability to work independently and multitask effectively

Priyamvada Sinha