# Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Pune, Maharashtra
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist. In this role, you will lead design and delivery of cloud-native, high-performance data pipelines and microservices.

Responsibilities:

- Lead design and delivery of cloud-native, high-performance data pipelines and microservices.

- Build and support solutions using Java (incl. Java 8), Spring Boot 3, Microservices, PostgreSQL, JPA, JavaScript, MongoDB, Apache Flink (real-time streaming focus) and Apache Beam.

- Drive GCP-based engineering across Dataflow, BigQuery/ClickHouse, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage/GCS, Composer, plus Apache Airflow, GKE, and Python for scripting, automation and automated testing.

- Own live production applications, modernise legacy stacks, and partner with cross-functional teams to shape and deliver new features and enhancements.

- Define transformation roadmaps and lead migration of legacy applications to modern, cloud-native architectures (including re-platforming/refactoring to microservices), with minimal disruption to service with focus on service resilience.

- Monitor and optimise pipeline and application performance; ensure data quality, integrity and security end-to-end.

- Coach and mentor engineers across levels; keep the team current on data engineering trends and best practices.

Requirements:

- 18+ years in development engineering, with strong experience in ETL and data pipeline delivery.

- Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or similar); relevant industry certifications are a plus.

- Strong leadership plus hands-on capability in Java and SQL; front-end exposure to React and TypeScript.

- Solid problem-solving and troubleshooting skills for complex data and application issues.

- Clear communicator who collaborates well with teams and senior business stakeholders.

- Proactive risk/issue reporting with practical mitigation plans.

- Working knowledge of Helm for Kubernetes deployments.

- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Stackdriver.

- Good grasp of security best practices for cloud and Kubernetes; DevOps skills are an advantage.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- PostgreSQL
- JPA
- JavaScript
- MongoDB
- Apache Flink
- Apache Beam
- GCP
- Dataflow
- BigQuery
- Pub/Sub
- Cloud Storage
- Composer
- Apache Airflow
- GKE
- Python

### Nice to have
- React
- TypeScript
- Helm
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Stackdriver
- DevOps

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