Lead Cloud/Integration Engineer (8-15 yrs)

Job Title : Cloud engineering and Integration Lead

Exp : 8 +

Location : Hyderabad

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

- Direct and manage multiple software engineers responsible for cloud engineering and integration application areas and other 3rd party applications supporting supply chain and financial services areas.

- Design, develop, test, implement and document scalable digital applications.

- Manage the development and deployment of all new projects

- Ensure the quality of all production deployments with no critical post production issues.

- Manage application support and operations of all Digital applications to support day to day business operations.

- Ensure all defined SLAs are achieved

- Research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts.

- Lead pre and post testing phases of development by evaluating proposals in order to identify potential problem areas and make the appropriate recommendations.

- Ensure that development projects meet business requirements and goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.

- Review and analyze existing application effectiveness and efficiency, and then develop strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.

- Ensure that any new software integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.

- Collaborate with product management, end users and IT operations in the testing of new software programs and applications.

- Manage and provide direction for the application development team in support of business operations.

- Identify and resolve program errors for break/fix for assigned applications.

- Design, develop, and install enhancements and upgrades to systems and application software.

- Recruit, inspire, and coordinate staff required for the achievement of the digital systems Technology initiatives

- Work with staff members to develop software changes required to support development efforts and continued production software operations

- Build and maintain systems in a way that ensures compliance with certification, regulatory standards, and a technology-based information security program

- Ensure teams follow best practices regarding coding standards, code reviews, and testing (including unit, integration, and system test)

- Partner with architects to ensure developed solutions adhere to established best patterns and our architectural target state

- Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team

- Collaborate with other technologists on creating cross-domain solutions

- Track progress of development projects and take appropriate actions to assure delivery schedules are met.

Qualifications :

- Demonstrate strong partnership with business and other IT organizations a must.

- Demonstrate strong communication skills in writing and verbal a must.

- 5+ years of working experience in Middleware and Integration Technology space, working within a fast-paced and fast-evolving environment.

- Deep understanding of Agile development methodology.

- Experience leading a technology development team.

- Must have strong technical skills, ideally from a hands-on engineering background.

- Demonstrated experience in broad enterprise technologies as well as experience working in a large database operation environment.

- Experience in service management practices and processes within a continuous improvement environment.

- Experience in supporting scalable architectures and supporting network protocols.

- Experience with persisting data in one or more Relational and NoSQL DB technologies such as MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB or Postgres;

- Experience with API gateways and authentication technologies, such as OAuth2 and SAML;

- Experience building service-oriented architectures and proficiency with distributed systems built on the cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is a plus;

- Experience building large-scale web services, micro-services based applications in the cloud environment is a plus;

- Passion for security and a strong understanding of threats, vulnerabilities and compliance standards;

- Deep understanding of Agile development methodology.

- Experience in leading a technology development and support teams.

- Must have strong technical skills, ideally from a hands-on engineering background.

- Experience in service management practices and processes within a continuous improvement environment.

- Experience in supporting scalable architectures and supporting network protocols.

- Passion for security and a strong understanding of threats, vulnerabilities and compliance standards;

- Experience participating and leading code reviews, refactoring, gathering code quality metrics and measurements;

- Fluency with modern DevOps automation toolchains, and modern containerization, orchestration, and virtualization technologies;

- Experience using source control tools - Microsoft Team Foundation Server, and/or Github is a plus,