Lead Software Engineer (Cloud Native | Microservices | AWS)

We are looking for an enthusiastic Engineering Manager to work at the forefront of our cloud modernization within our Credit & Verification Services.

You will be part of a high-performance engineering team as a Lead Engineer that delivers the product backlog of Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform. You will work closely with other Software Engineers to both maintain existing systems and build our cloud-native micro services and web applications using the latest technologies and architectural patterns

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be #LI-hybrid based in Hyderabad and reporting to Director Engineering.
• Working as a lead engineer in an agile team to deliver high-quality software solutions within agreed timelines ensuring alignment with business requirements and agile principles.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the design development and delivery of high-quality software solutions ensuring alignment with business goals and agile principles.
• Take ownership of the overall technical architecture ensuring scalability performance security and maintainability of the software systems.
• Champion the adoption of best practices in software development including clean code maintainability efficient coding standards and DevSecOps practices.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional team members including product owners designers QA and other stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery and alignment with business objectives.
• Lead technical discussions and processes ensuring alignment with architectural standards long-term technical strategy and business goals.
• Manage technical risks and issues proactively identifying potential challenges and developing mitigation strategies.
• Provide clear and concise documentation for code processes and system architecture to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintainability for yourself and the team.
• Translating business requirements to clean scalable code ensuring minimal defects for yourself and the team.
• Mentor and guide senior & junior developers providing technical expertise code reviews.

Qualifications :

• Qualified with a degree Computer Science MCA in Computer Science Bachelor of Technology in Engineering or higher
• Minimum 10 years of experience working in software development with at least 3 years of experience leading a team currently
• Proven experience leading and collaborating within cross-functional teams throughout the full software development lifecycle leveraging Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum Kanban) to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently
• Focus on setting clear direction aligning team efforts with organisational goals and maintaining high levels of motivation and engagement across the team
• Expertise working with geographically distributed teams fostering inclusive collaboration across diverse cultures and backgrounds to enhance productivity and innovation
• Proven track record of building secure mission-critical high-volume transaction web-based software systems in regulated environments (finance and insurance industries)
• Proficient in translating business requirement to clean scalable code defined as the acceptance criteria with the applicable design patterns and security best practices
• Strong individual contributor and team player capable of collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams

Required Technical Skills/Knowledge:

• Handson expertise Java (Spring/Micronaut/Quarkus) or Go building highquality scalable secure APIs within micro services architectures. Preference for technology and languageagnostic engineers.
• Minimum 2 years of practical experience with AWS including strong understanding of server less concepts and cloudnative services. AWS certifications are preferred.
• Handson experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Proficient in writing unit and integration tests with handson TDD and BDD; experienced in mocking frameworks to ensure test reliability and alignment with acceptance criteria.
• Strong skills in creating and reviewing highlevel and lowlevel designs; deep understanding of Clean Architecture SOLID OOP design patterns and concurrency concepts.
• Committed to writing clean scalable secure code; experienced in code reviews design patterns security best practices static code analysis and vulnerability management.
• Proficient with SQL or NoSQL databases; handson experience with data modelling and (if applicable) Entity Framework for performance and scalability.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerised application development and orchestration.
• Working experience with Gitbased source control tools (Bitbucket GitHub GitLab).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices and modern deployment pipelines.
• Passionate about mentoring and up skilling engineers; fosters knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Identify create maintain and reuse shared frameworks or components to improve engineering productivity.
• Experience with static code quality analysis tools and vulnerability management.

Useful & Desirable skills:

• Experience working on Greenfield projects or contributing to large-scale cloud modernisation initiatives including migration from legacy systems to cloudnative architectures.
• Experience using GenAI tools for software development and testing.
• Experience with Python/Scala bigdata frameworks (e.g. Spark) or batch processing.
• Knowledge of streaming/messaging systems such as Kafka EventBridge Kinesis RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ for eventdriven architectures.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Experience working with DomainDriven Design (DDD) and EventDriven Architecture (EDA).

Everyone has different experience and so please dont rule yourself out if you cannot tick all the qualities mentioned above. Talk to us about the experience that you do have.

Additional Information :

Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experians culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters; DEI work/life balance development authenticity collaboration wellness reward & recognition volunteering... the list goes on. Experians people first approach is award-winning; Worlds Best Workplaces 2024 (Fortune Global Top 25) Great Place To Work in 24 countries and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site and Glassdoor to understand why.

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Benefits

Experian care for employees work life balance health safety and support of this endeavor we offer best-in-class family well-being benefits enhanced medical benefits and paid time off.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time