Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Proven expertise in building large scale & high throughput application
Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka & cloud native applications
Proficient in distributed systems and parallel processing
Proficient in Performance Analysis and Tuning (Working knowledge of Java based Profiling and Monitoring Tools)
Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Working experience of Kafka Streams, Even Driven Architecture, Microservices Architecture
Good understanding of Behavior driven design
Understanding of Kubernetes, APIGEE gateway and cloud services
Working knowledge of agentic workflows
Proven production deliverables in agentic AI
Hands-on across the modern AI toolchain