# Senior Lead Application Developer

**Company**: S&P Dow Jones Indices
**Location**: Mumbai, Maharastra
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

S&P Dow Jones Indices, a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets, is looking for a Senior Lead Application Developer to join its technology team.

The team is part of the global technology team comprising Dev, QA, and BA teams, and the successful candidate will be responsible for analysis, design, development, and testing.

The role involves working on one of the core technology platforms responsible for index calculations and dissemination of index values. The ideal candidate will have the opportunity to work on enhancements to the existing index calculation system and implement new methodologies.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide technical leadership and delivery ownership for modernization and migration initiatives

- Assess current .NET/C#/MVC applications and define modernization approach

- Design and guide build-out of cloud foundations required for modern apps

- Ensure production readiness and lead functional migration from .NET codepaths to Java-based services

- Set standards for clean code, code reviews, test automation, and branching/release strategy

- Drive test strategy across stacks and improve automation coverage

- Embed secure engineering practices and ensure appropriate handling of secrets/credentials

- Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation plans

- Create an upskilling plan for the existing team

- Partner with product/business stakeholders to prioritize modernization deliverables

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering

- 10-12 years of IT experience in application development and support

- Strong experience with Java, J2EE, JMS, Spring Framework, .NET, C#, and SQL

- Basic networking knowledge and Unix scripting

- Experience with at least three of: Python, Scala, Infrastructure/CICD/DevOps, Big Data, AWS Cloud, Microservices, Spark

**Benefits:**

- Health and wellness coverage

- Flexible downtime

- Continuous learning opportunities

- Competitive pay and retirement planning

- Family-friendly perks

**Our Mission:**

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

**Our Values:**

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- J2EE
- JMS
- Spring Framework
- .NET
- C#
- SQL
- Python
- Scala
- Infrastructure/CICD/DevOps
- Big Data
- AWS Cloud
- Microservices
- Spark

### Nice to have
- Advanced Python
- Advanced Scala
- Big data/AWS Cloud/Micro services
- Spark using scala/python/java and HDFS
- Good understanding of AWS cloud (EC2, EMR, Lambda, S3, Glue, etc.)
- Ansible/Fortify/Jenkins
- QA Automation (cucumber,selenium,karate etc)
- Exposure to addressing Vulnerabilities

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