Associate Director, Software Engineering

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering. As a hands-on engineer, you will work in the capacity of an Individual contributor by coding and testing new features, enhancements and fixes to existing application.

Principal responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of engineers in delivering application design, build and upgrades to Collateral Technology architecture
• Design scalable, resilient, maintainable systems (microservices, event-driven, monolith-to-microservice migrations)
• Ship high‑quality code: set coding standards, lead code reviews, and champion testing and CI/CD
• Establish a technology environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data
• Take accountability and ownership of design and solutions
• Promote and ensure engineering best practices and standards are met in building simpler, faster, and secure components
• Drive automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevSecOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement and adopting upcoming IT controls
• Identify risks and opportunities, both for IT and business to drive availability, performance, and resiliency of services
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, framework and technologies in areas like cyber security, AI / ML and Data engineering
• Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge technologies and practices

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications:

• 10+ years of hands-on relevant experience in developing and implementing software solutions using Java, Microservices, API and 3rd party product integrations
• Currently working in a hands-on capacity, translating user requirements into functional code, managing the full development life cycle (SDLC) from design to production
• Strong knowledge and experience in back-end technologies: Microservice architecture, Java 17/21/25, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Integration and Rest APIs
• Experience in working in an Agile, DevSecOps environment
• Proven ability to improve developer productivity – through automation, reusability and advanced technical skills
• Is hands-on with usage of AI coding assistants
• Experience of designing applications, alongside architects and platform stakeholders
• Excellent command of IT risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, credentials management, and related controls
• Should possess a deep understanding of design patterns and principles, as well as a comprehensive expertise in microservice design principles and patterns
• Self-motivated and willing to learn new technologies and business domain
• The ability to influence and champion new ideas and technical direction within the organization

Additional skills will be good to have:

• Experience in cloud native software development would be an added advantage
• Experience with the database technologies such Oracle, PostgreSQL or HBase
• Experiences with Test driven development methodologies such as Junit & BDD using Selenium and Robot framework
• Strong with development engineering concepts including infrastructure, networking, database management systems, caching, monitoring, observability, Load balancer, site reliability engineering, etc
• Expertise in any monitoring and observability technologies like Prometheus, Influx DB, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, etc
• Good to have experience in MQ, Solace, Apache Kafka, Apache Beam, Apache Spark and Object Store
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm Chart, GCP services like cloud storage, cloud buckets