Job Description

Role : Delivery Lead Recon

Function : Application Management Services (AMS) Application Services

Location : Chennai

Reports To : Engineering / Delivery Head, AMS

Experience : 15 to 18 years, with demonstrated progression from hands-on development to delivery leadership

Role Summary :

FSS is looking for a Delivery Lead to own end-to-end delivery of Reconciliation (Recon) application development and enhancements for banking and payments customers.

This is a techno-functional leadership role suited to someone who has grown into delivery leadership from a strong hands-on Java development background, and who understands the realities of banking-domain delivery from having built and shipped production systems personally. Working knowledge of reconciliation applications and workflows is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own delivery of Recon application development, enhancements, and defect resolution across assigned bank/customer accounts, balancing scope, quality, and timelines.

- Translate business and functional requirements from banking customers into technical design and sprint/release plans, working closely with architects and business analysts.

- Provide hands-on technical direction to the development team code/design reviews, troubleshooting complex production issues, and unblocking the team on hard technical problems.

- Manage the full delivery lifecycle : estimation, planning, resourcing, risk management, and stakeholder reporting (internal leadership and bank customers).

- Drive engineering discipline coding standards, CI/CD practices, environment management, release governance, and documentation.

- Partner with QA, infrastructure, and support teams to ensure smooth releases and stable production operations for recon systems.

- Identify recurring technical and process issues and drive root-cause-based, sustainable fixes rather than short-term patches.

- Mentor developers transitioning into senior/lead roles, building a pipeline of technical leadership within the team.

- Contribute to proposals, effort estimates, and technical inputs for new deals or change requests involving recon capability.

Required Background & Experience :

- Strong core Java development background (Java, J2EE, Spring/Spring Boot, RDBMS, messaging/batch frameworks) someone who has personally written and owned production code, not only managed others who do.

- Clear career progression from individual contributor developer to delivery/technical lead able to go deep into code when required, not purely a process manager.

- Prior experience in the banking/financial services domain, ideally on systems with high transaction volumes, batch processing, or settlement-related workflows.

- Proven experience leading delivery teams sprint/release planning, stakeholder communication, and team management for a team of 820 engineers.

- Strong problem-solving orientation comfortable diagnosing complex, ambiguous production issues under time pressure and driving them to closure.

- Experience working with banking customers or regulated financial institutions, understanding their change-management and compliance expectations.

- Working knowledge of reconciliation application functionality, such as :

1. Multi-channel matching across card, ATM, instant payments (UPI/IMPS), payment gateway, and wallet transactions.

2. ATM cash tally reconciling switch, host/CBS, electronic journal, and cash-in-transit data (3-way and 4-way reconciliation).

3. NEFT/RTGS reconciliation across CBS, SFMS, NEFT, and RTGS feeds.

4. Rule-based exception and dispute management with GL tallying.

5. Scheduled batch or near-real-time reconciliation cycles across multi-currency, multi-bank scenarios.

Preferred / Good to Have :

- Exposure to card/payments processing systems (switching, issuance, acquiring) in addition to recon.

- Familiarity with cloud-hosted deployments (AWS) and modern DevOps/CI-CD practices.

- Certifications in Agile/Scrum delivery (CSM/PSM) or technical certifications relevant to Java/Spring ecosystems.

Key Behavioural Competencies :

- Structured problem solver breaks down ambiguous issues methodically and drives them to resolution.

- Credible with both engineers and customers can go deep technically and also communicate clearly to business stakeholders.

- Ownership mindset treats delivery outcomes as personally accountable rather than purely a coordination exercise.

- Comfortable operating in a hands-on, close-to-the-code leadership style typical of banking-domain delivery environments.

Note :

This role suits a candidate who has "grown up" through development into delivery leadership, retains strong hands-on technical instincts, and brings the discipline of a hard-core banking-domain developer to how the team ships software.