Franklin Templeton
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Core Responsibilities You will lead a software engineering squad as a player-coach.
At Franklin Templeton, we believe success is built through powerful partnerships. As a forward‑thinking asset manager, we build dynamic relationships with clients, understand their goals, and navigate complex markets together. We leverage cutting‑edge strategies and deep insights to unlock opportunities for long‑term wealth creation. Our talented, global teams bring expertise that is both broad and unique.
From our welcoming, inclusive, and supportive culture to our globally diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential, but also to contribute to our clients’ success.
Franklin Templeton’s Artificial Intelligence Platform and AI Investment Group develops shared data, engineering, and AI capabilities across the company. Its work helps investment professionals and clients adopt advanced analytics safely and quickly. Small, cross-functional agile teams collaborate with product, investment, data, architecture, legal, risk, compliance, and governance partners. The environment is hands-on, evidence-driven, and collaborative. Joining the group offers opportunities to influence enterprise architecture, lead talented engineers, and advance production-ready AI solutions.
How You Will Add Value?
Core Responsibilities
You will lead a software engineering squad as a player-coach.
You will contribute directly to design, coding, reviews, and production support.
You will own architecture and technical roadmaps for your assigned domain.
You will convert business priorities into clear, achievable engineering plans.
You will establish standards for quality, security, performance, and reliability.
You will oversee delivery, capacity, dependencies, milestones, and risks.
Strategic Responsibilities
You will guide critical architecture and technical decisions.
You will lead design and code reviews.
You will improve delivery predictability, service health, and engineering effectiveness.
You will define meaningful engineering metrics and operating practices.
You will lead incident response and systemic issue resolution.
You will introduce practical AI improvements across engineering workflows.
You will ensure AI-assisted solutions remain secure, validated, and supportable.
Team & Collaboration
You will coach engineers through feedback, mentoring, and skills development.
You will support hiring and performance management activities.
You will create a collaborative, accountable, and inclusive engineering culture.
You will remove delivery blockers and coordinate cross-team dependencies.
You will communicate technical risks and recovery plans clearly.
You will partner across product, data, architecture, platform, and control functions.
What Will Help You Be Successful in This Role?
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience.
Experience delivering backend, distributed, or data-intensive production systems.
Proven leadership of engineers and complex software initiatives.
Financial-services or regulated-industry experience is beneficial.
Technical Skills
Advanced Python, Structured Query Language, microservices, and data-processing expertise.
Strong software design and enterprise integration capabilities.
Architecture, technical roadmaps, and automated testing experience.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, containerization, and observability experience.
Secure coding and production-support expertise.
Large Language Model applications, AI agents, and model-evaluation experience.
Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, orchestration, and event-driven systems experience.
Soft Skills
Clear written and verbal communication.
Strong coaching and mentoring capability.
Sound technical and operational judgment.
Effective cross-functional stakeholder management.
Ability to balance pace, quality, risk, and maintainability.
Working Shift Timings - 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM IST
At Franklin Templeton, we believe your benefits should support your life, your goals, and your future. That’s why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
Professional development growth opportunities through in-house classes and over 150 Web-based training courses
An educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education
Medical, Life and Personal Accident Insurance benefit for employees. Medical insurance also cover employee’s dependents (spouses, children and dependent parents)
Life insurance for protection of employees’ families
Personal accident insurance for protection of employees and their families
Personal loan assistance
Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP)
12 weeks Paternity leave
Onsite fitness center, recreation center, and cafeteria
Transport facility
Child day care facility for women employees
Cricket grounds and gymnasium
Library
Health Center with doctor availability
HDFC ATM on the campus
Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
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