Job Description - Lead Database Developer

Total Relevant Experience: 7+ Years

Educational Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech / MCA / BCA / M.Tech / M.Sc. (IT) / B.Sc. (IT) or any other relevant qualification in Technology.

Work Experience:

- Minimum 7+ years of experience in software architecture, application development, and database technologies.

- Experience working with Clearing Corporations, Stock Exchanges, or Investment Banks will be highly preferred.

- Strong experience in designing scalable, high-performance, and reliable enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities:

- Application Architecture: Design end-to-end application architecture for Risk Management Systems (RMS) and Clearing Engines, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and low latency.

- Technical Standards: Define and implement engineering standards for API design, data modelling, and communication between services.

- Architecture Design: Establish reusable architectural patterns to maintain consistency across Data Centre (DC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) environments.

- Performance Management: Define and validate Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), including system throughput, latency, and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

- System Reliability: Ensure performance, scalability, and operational requirements are considered during the initial design phase.

- Testing & Validation: Work closely with performance engineering teams to conduct stress testing, performance testing, and regression testing.

- Scalability: Design applications capable of handling high transaction volumes using distributed systems, caching, and load-balancing techniques.

- Fault Tolerance: Implement fail-fast mechanisms, circuit breakers, redundancy, and self-healing capabilities to ensure system availability.

- Application Security: Incorporate Zero Trust principles and encryption standards to comply with SEBI and CSCRF cybersecurity requirements.

- Technology Modernization: Research and implement emerging technologies, including cloud-native solutions and high-performance messaging systems.

- Legacy Modernization: Develop migration strategies to move from traditional COTS/vendor-based platforms to flexible, in-house application solutions.

- Future Readiness: Design systems capable of supporting evolving market requirements, including T+0 settlement and expansion of derivatives segments.

- Change Management: Lead the Change Advisory Board (CAB) process to review and approve major technical and architectural changes.

- Vendor Management: Provide technical guidance to vendors and ensure their deliverables meet internal architecture standards. Define SLAs and SOPs for vendor engagements.

- Documentation & Compliance: Maintain detailed architecture documents, system workflows, and data flow documentation to support regulatory audits and compliance requirements.

Preferred Technical Skills:

- Strong knowledge of Java programming.

- Hands-on experience with Messaging Queues and distributed systems.

- Working experience with Apache Kafka.

- Strong database knowledge, preferably IBM DB2.

- Experience with containerization technologies.

- Understanding of high-performance, scalable, and low-latency application architecture.

- Knowledge of system integration, API design, and database modelling.