Lead Software Engineer - Java Developer

FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India), a part of First Citizens BancShares, Inc., a top 20 U.S. financial institution, is a global capability center (GCC) based in Bengaluru. Our India-based teams benefit from the company’s over 125-year legacy of strength and stability. First Citizens India is responsible for delivering value and managing risks for our lines of business. We are particularly proud of our strong, relationship-driven culture and our long-term approach, which are deeply ingrained in our talented workforce. This is evident across all key areas of our operations, including Technology, Enterprise Operations, Finance, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Credit Administration. We are seeking talented individuals to join us in our mission of providing solutions fit for our clients’ greatest ambitions.

Job Description:

Value Preposition

Lead the solutioning, design and construction of large scale Enterprise system integration requirements using the latest and greatest technologies and niche skills most suitable to the financial/payments domain.

Shape the Future of development of world-class financial system-integrations and drive best practices pertaining to the business-domain, tech-platforms involved as well as non-functional considerations – security, scalability,resiliency & performance – to be baked  intelligently into the final software product.

Job Details

Position Title:  Lead Software Engineer

Career Level:  P3

Job Category: Manager

Role Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Bangalore

About the Team:

Impact (Job Summary/Why this Role Matters)

The Payments team is a group of diversified,competent , multi-skilled professionals who have championed the domain as well as the technology involved in the 5+ years since the team’s inception. They work as a team to conquer all kinds of challenges and are fully determined to get the job done , holding themselves to the highest standards of workmanship / craftsmanship always as they execute their projects. New joiners can be sure to amass immense knowledge about domain and technology thanks to the free flow of information and mentorship provided by seasoned IT professionals who have been part of this team for so long. The integrations (applications) built by the person playing this role helps drive transformation goal for the organization by significantly improving the ways the Payments onboarding had been handled previously.

Key Deliverables (Duties and Responsibilities)

• 7-10 years of building Enterprise Applications experience.
• Application design and technical ownership (End-to-End) for new integrations or enhancements to existing integrations.
• Performing impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions , proposing additional/alternative solutions/options or trade-offs
• Drive complex technical efforts (solutioning) across one or more engineering teams in Payments team.
• Strong application building experience in Java Microservices, Spring Boot deployed on Containers (OpenShift/Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages language – python, Groovy etc.
• Preferred - experience with any of the cloud platform (aws – preferred) serverless applications.
• Build code  and deploy/promote it into various pre-prod environments using CICD / Devops.
• Lead trouble-shooting and triage issues in production/pre-production environments.
• Contribute to and drive best practices.
• Strong deployment experience on Containers as well as server platforms.
• Strong development experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases.
• Fix Quality issues and work closely with Quality and business partners to ensure timely collaboration and resolution.
• Fix vulnerability issues reported by automated tools or Quality team members.
• Ownership of Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise for the applications owned by the pod/project.
• Expert at design patterns – SOLID, Java-Design, Integration;
• Maintain  Solution and Tech architecture for all systems in the domain (e.g payments)  and related assets.
• Create documentation to hand off the developed software to App Support teams.
• Provide deployment support to the Application-support team .
• Must have ability to manage the project and lead multiple teams.

Skills and Qualification (Functional and Technical Skills)

Functional Skills:

• Payments Domain or Finance domain (good to have)
• Good Technical communication
• Great Communication Skill Verbal & Written
• Good interpersonal skills for cross-team collaboration

Technical Skills:-

Skill ( Proficiency   | Required/Preferred )

 Java 11.0 or later ( Advanced  | Required )

 Design patterns/principles ( Advanced  | Required )

 Spring/Spring boot ( Advanced  | Required )

 Database /SQL/RDBMS ( Advanced  | Required )

 DevOps/CICD ( Advanced  | Required )

 Microservices ( Advanced  | Required )

 Kubernetes/ /Containerization ( Advanced  | Required )

 Linux/Unix ( Intermediate| Required )

 Appian ( Intermediate  | Preferred )

 MQ/JMS/Kafka/Messaging ( Advanced  | Required )

 AWS/Any cloud experience ( Intermediate| Preferred )

Relationships & Collaboration

Reports to : Nishant Bharti

Partners : Payments team members, Pod team members , Cross-functional teams.

Leads: Team Lead, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner, Reporting Manager.

Accessibility Needs

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you require accommodations at any stage (e.g. application, interviews, onboarding) please let us know, and we will work with you to ensure a seamless experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment and prohibit all forms of discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, caste, disability, sexual orientation, economic status or any other characteristics protected by the law. We strive to foster a safe and respectful environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Our EEO policy ensures fairness throughout the employee life cycle.