Principal Engineer / Technical Architect - JAVA

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Principal Software Engineer / Technical Architect - JAVA

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

Location: DLF - Porur (Chennai)

Work Timing: UK Shift (1:30 PM to 10:30 PM)

Work Mode: Hybrid (3 Days per week / 12 days per month from office)

Role Summary

Principal Software Engineer with experience in development, deployment and operation of software solutions primarily based on Java. Undertakes complex business requirement and provide a business solution. Work with other application/platform developers and implement business requirements into concrete solutions. Review the solution and design with the architects and database administrators as required. Work with application development team to produce the technical documentation of the projects. Provide technical expertise for the support team, for atypical issues that need detailed analysis or design.

Specific experience and skills:

• Minimum 10 Years of software development and design experience
• Hands-on experience in developing, maintaining robust, maintainable software.
• Experience delivering large projects in technical lead capacity is a plus.
• Should possess Analytical, Design, Architectural and documentation skills and able to solve challenging problems across SDLC be they technical, process or interpersonal
• Hands-on experience writing software in Java and Web using HTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, and ReactJS; experience with MVC patterns.
• Experience designing and maintaining applications using Spring/J2EE frameworks, Web Services/RESTful services/Microservices/APIs
• RDBMS Experience with exposure to writing Stored Procedures, SQL queries
• Experience working in both Linux and Windows host environments
• Experience working in Banking/Finance sector or related platforms/software is a plus
• Experience using tools like JIRA, Visio and MS Office tools for documentation and work tracking
• Uncanny ability to figure out existing Java applications
• Innovative and able to assess potential improvement opportunities and provide solutions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for software design, development, testing, automation and maintenance of applications across enterprise.
• Work with a team of resources in project delivery and work with Product, BA and QA teams to successfully deliver projects.
• Review tasks done by team members and ensure best practices are followed.
• Work closely with Project Managers, Scrum Leads and CIOs in creating project breakdown, technical delivery schedule and helping them meeting all identified milestones.
• Design and develop Software solutions that fit within the guidelines set forth by Security, Architecture and Solution Leads.
• Responsible for mentoring and guiding team development and support team members any complex or challenging situations that requires advanced knowledge
• Create documentation and test scripts supporting the development work. Also provide documentation to Release/implementation teams to help them successfully deploy changes to Production environment.
• Support complex business as usual activities (BAU) with Application support and Customer Operations team including but not limited to resolving production defects, performance issues and system outages.

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• Business related certification expense reimbursement
• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
• Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC