Lead Application Developer

S&P Global Market Intelligence; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

SP Dow Jones Indices in Mumbai invites a Senior Lead Application Developer to drive modernization, cloud-native design, and cross‑functional migration projects. You will shape architecture, lead a global tech team, and ensure secure, scalable delivery of index platforms.

The role focuses on AWS cloud foundations, performance readiness, and migration from .NET to Java ecosystems, with emphasis on SDLC excellence and mentorship across DevOps and QA practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical execution for modernization and migration initiatives (scope, design, implementation, quality, and delivery milestones).
• Define modernization approach per capability: rehost/refactor/re-architect/replace, prioritizing quick wins and risk reduction.
• Design and guide build-out of cloud foundations for AWS cloud-native apps (networking, environments, security, observability, CI/CD).
• Lead functional migration from .NET to Java-based services with interoperability layers and adapters.
• Set standards for clean code, code reviews, test automation, branching/release strategy, and environment promotion.
• Drive test strategy across stacks: unit, contract, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests; improve automation.
• Embed secure engineering practices, manage secrets, least privilege, and auditability.
• Create an upskilling plan for the team in AWS, Java/Spring, and DevOps practices.
• Coordinate with product/business stakeholders to prioritize modernization deliverables and manage trade-offs.

Skills

Java

J2EE

JMS

Spring

C#

SQL

Unix scripting

Python

Scala

DevOps

AWS Cloud

Spark

HDFS

Jenkins

QA Automation

Security vulnerabilities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Fortify

Selenium

Cucumber

Karate

Job description

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 11

The Role:

SP Dow Jones Indices, a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets, is looking for a Senior Lead Application Developer to join our technology team.

The Team:

You will be part of global technology team comprising of Dev, QA and BA teams and will be responsible for analysis, design, development and testing.

The Impact:

You will be working on one of the core technology platforms responsible for index calculations as well as dissemination of index values.

Whats in it for you:

You will have the opportunity to work on the enhancements to the existing index calculation system as well as implement new methodologies as required.

Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership delivery ownership: Own end-to-end technical execution for modernization and migration initiatives (scope, design, implementation, quality, and delivery milestones).
• Modernization strategy (from .NET MVC to cloud-native)
  • Assess current .NET/C#/MVC applications (dependencies, coupling, data access patterns, hosting, performance bottlenecks, security gaps).
  • Define modernization approach per capability: rehost/refactor/re-architect/replace, prioritizing quick wins and risk reduction.
• AWS cloud-native implementation
  • Design and guide build-out of cloud foundations required for modern apps (networking, environments, security, observability, CI/CD).
  • Ensure production readiness: performance testing strategy, failure-mode testing, rollout/rollback procedures.
• Migration to existing AWS/Java (Spring/Hibernate) platforms
  • Lead functional migration from .NETcodepathsto Java-based services while maintaining correctness and availability.
  • Define interoperability approach during transition (API contracts, adapters, strangler pattern, feature toggles, compatibility layers).
  • Partner with platform owners to ensure migrated components comply with existing Java platform conventions and deployment pipelines.
• Engineering excellence SDLC
  • Set standards forclean code, code reviews, test automation, branching/release strategy, and environment promotion.
  • Drive test strategy across stacks: unit, contract, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests; improve automation coverage.
  • Improve build/release reliability; reduce cycle time; implement guardrails (quality gates, vulnerability scanning as applicable).
• Security, compliance, and risk management
  • Embed secure engineering practices (threatmodellingparticipation, secure coding standards, dependency hygiene).
  • Ensure appropriate handling of secrets/credentials, least-privilege access, and auditability.
  • Identify technical risks early (data migration risk, downtime, coupling, unknown dependencies) and drive mitigation plans.
• Team mentorship upskilling (explicit people mandate)
  • Create an upskilling plan for the existing team: learning paths for AWS fundamentals, Java/Spring, cloud-native patterns, and DevOps practices.
• Stakeholder collaboration
  • Partner with product/business stakeholders to prioritize modernization deliverables and manage trade-offs(time, scope, risk).

Coordinate with security, infrastructure/platform, and data teams to remove blockers and align on shared standards.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualification:

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering isrequired, or in lieu, a demonstratedequivalencein work experience.
• (10 to12) years of IT experience in application development and support.
• Strong Experience withJava, J2EE, JMS including Spring Framework
• Strongexperience with Microsoft .Net C#
• Strong experience with Microsoft .Net C# MVC web applications
• Strong Experience with Advanced SQL,T-SQL,PL/SQL programming
• Basic networking knowledge / Unix scripting
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in minimum three of following.

Advanced Python

Advanced Scala

Infrastructure/ CICD/DevOps

Big data / AWS Cloud / Micro services

Spark using scala / python/java andHDFS

Good understanding of AWS cloud (EC2, EMR, Lambda, S3, Glue, etc.)

Ansible / Fortify / Jenkins

QA Automation (cucumber ,selenium ,karateetc)

Exposure to addressing Vulnerabilities

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience working with large datasets in Equity, Commodities, Forex, Futures and Options asset classes.
• Experience with Index/Benchmarks or Asset Management or Trading platforms.
• Basic Knowledge of User Interface design development usingJQuery, HTML5 CSS.