Lead II - Software Engineering

7 - 9 years

5 Lacs

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Job Description

Role Proficiency:

Act creatively to develop applications by selecting appropriate technical options optimizing application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions. Account for others' developmental activities; assisting Project Manager in day to day project execution.

Outcomes:

  1. Interpret the application feature and component designs to develop the same in accordance with specifications.
  2. Code debug test document and communicate product component and feature development stages.
  3. Validate results with user representatives integrating and commissions the overall solution.
  4. Select and create appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components while creating own solutions for new contexts
  5. Optimises efficiency cost and quality.
  6. Influence and improve customer satisfaction
  7. Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams
  8. Set FAST goals for self/team; provide feedback to FAST goals of team members

Measures of Outcomes:

  1. Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards)
  2. Adherence to project schedule / timelines
  3. Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project
  4. Number of defects in the code
  5. Number of defects post delivery
  6. Number of non compliance issues
  7. Percent of voluntary attrition
  8. On time completion of mandatory compliance trainings

Outputs Expected:

Code:

  1. Code as per the design
  2. Define coding standards
    templates and checklists
  3. Review code - for team and peers


Documentation:

  1. Create/review templates
    checklistsguidelinesstandards for design/process/development
  2. Create/review deliverable documents. Design documentation
    requirementstest cases and results


Configure:

  1. Define and govern configuration management plan
  2. Ensure compliance from the team


Test:

  1. Review/Create unit test cases
    scenarios and execution
  2. Review test plan created by testing team
  3. Provide clarifications to the testing team


Domain relevance:

  1. Advise software developers on design and development of features and components with deeper understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client
  2. Learn more about the customer domain and identify opportunities to provide value addition to customers
  3. Complete relevant domain certifications


Manage Project:

  1. Support Project Manager with inputs for the projects
  2. Manage delivery of modules
  3. Manage complex user stories


Manage Defects:

  1. Perform defect RCA and mitigation
  2. Identify defect trends and take proactive measures to improve quality


Estimate:

  1. Create and provide input for effort and size estimation and plan resources for projects


Manage knowledge:

  1. Consume and contribute to project related documents
    share pointlibraries and client universities
  2. Review the reusable documents created by the team


Release:

  1. Execute and monitor release process


Design:

  1. Contribute to creation of design (HLD
    LLDSAD)/architecture for applicationsfeatures business components and data models


Interface with Customer:

  1. Clarify requirements and provide guidance to Development Team
  2. Present design options to customers
  3. Conduct product demos
  4. Work closely with customer architects for finalizing design


Manage Team:

  1. Set FAST goals and provide feedback
  2. Understand aspirations of the team members and provide guidance
    opportunitiesetc
  3. Ensure team members are upskilled
  4. Ensure team is engaged in project
  5. Proactively identify attrition risks and work with BSE on retention measures


Certifications:

  1. Obtain relevant domain and technology certifications

Skill Examples:

  1. Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
  2. Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
  3. Break down complex problems into logical components
  4. Develop user interfaces business software components
  5. Use data models
  6. Estimate time and effort resources required for developing / debugging features / components
  7. Perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environments
  8. Make quick decisions on technical/project related challenges
  9. Manage a team mentor and handle people related issues in team
  10. Have the ability to maintain high motivation levels and positive dynamics within the team.
  11. Interface with other teams designers and other parallel practices
  12. Set goals for self and team. Provide feedback for team members
  13. Create and articulate impactful technical presentations
  14. Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication
  15. Drive conference calls with customers and answer customer questions
  16. Proactively ask for and offer help
  17. Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning handling multiple tasks.
  18. Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables timely with a quality product.
  19. Estimate time and effort of resources required for developing / debugging features / components

Knowledge Examples:

  • Appropriate software programs / modules
    1. Functional & technical designing
    2. Programming languages - proficient in multiple skill clusters
    3. DBMS
    4. Operating Systems and software platforms
    5. Software Development Life Cycle
    6. Agile - Scrum or Kanban Methods
    7. Integrated development environment (IDE)
    8. Rapid application development (RAD)
    9. Modelling technology and languages
    10. Interface definition languages (IDL)
    11. Broad knowledge of customer domain and deep knowledge of sub domain where problem is solved

    Additional Comments:

    Role Overview The Engineering Lead will be the technical owner responsible for architecting, engineering, and scaling the platform capabilities spanning Cloud Services, Developer Experience, GenAI integration, ITSM workflows, and Security automation. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring engineering expertise, strong architectural judgement, and capability to lead multidisciplinary teams across cloud, full-stack development, security, and automation. The leader will drive engineering excellence, platform reliability, backlog execution, standards adoption, and cross-functional integration, with high-quality delivery of the software platform with enterprise readiness. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture - Work with Customer stakeholders to define the technical vision, engineering roadmap, and architectural patterns for the platform. - Establish reusable frameworks for automation, MCP integrations, secure cloud design, developer experience tooling, and observability. - Engage with stakeholders in making build/buy/extend decisions aligned with platform strategy and enterprise engineering principles. - Provide hands-on engineering oversight across front-end, back-end, GenAI integrations, cloud infrastructure, and security. Hands-on Engineering - Lead complex engineering tasks, code reviews, PoCs, and performance optimisations. - Build reference implementations, reusable automation patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and SDK-aligned integration workflows. - Champion the adoption of engineering best practices including IaC, DevOps, test automation, SRE practices, and GenAI-assisted development. Team Leadership & Delivery - Lead and mentor a 20 - 25 engineers within the cross-functional engineering team (Cloud, Security, Full-Stack, Automation, Scrum Master). - Establish engineering rituals (design reviews, architecture council, sprint governance). - Drive delivery predictability, throughput, and quality across workstreams. Stakeholder Management - Partner with Product Owner, Solution Architects, and Security leads to translate business requirements into actionable engineering roadmaps. - Engage with leadership and customers to articulate technical direction, risks, and progress. Governance, Security, and Compliance - Ensure all development follows secure-by-design practices. - Drive cloud governance, IAM standards, vulnerability management, and compliance alignment. - Oversee quality gates for architecture, performance, and security. Innovation & GenAI Enablement - Build capability accelerators using GenAI (developer copilots, test automation, content generation, runbook automation). - Integrate MCPs, multi-agent workflows, and SDK-aligned patterns into platform capabilities. Required Technical Skills Core Engineering Expertise - 12-16 years in software/platform development and engineering; 5+ years in engineering leadership. - Deep experience with cloud-native application design, preferably AWS. - Strong expertise in Node.js, Python, Java, React, TypeScript, microservices, APIs. - Experience designing and scaling enterprise-grade products used internally or externally. Cloud & Automation - Knowledge into IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation. - Cloud networking, security, governance, and operationalisation. - Workflow automation, platform engineering, developer portals. Security - Strong understanding of IAM, zero trust, SOC2/NIST/ISO controls, CIEM, CSPM. - Experience with secure app design, threat modelling, DevSecOps. GenAI & Developer Experience - Practical experience integrating GenAI models (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Llama, Groq). - Knowledge of RAG, orchestration frameworks, multi-agent systems. - Familiarity with API gateways, service mesh, and modern CI/CD toolchains Leadership & Behavioural Competencies - Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams with clarity and decisiveness. - Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills. - Capability to manage delivery, prioritisation, and engineering trade-offs. - Experience building engineering culture centred on automation-first and “shift-left”.


Required Skills

Iac,Devops,Node.Js,Java

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