R&d Architect

Company Description
**About Sopra Banking Software**
Our teams consist of exceptional people with Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Respect, and Collaboration as values at the core. We bring together people from different lifestyles, backgrounds and cultures to partner with more than 1,500 leading Financial institutions worldwide. The rich variety of our solutions, the strength of our conviction and our passion for innovation enable us to support our clients on a daily basis and in their future projects, as well as in their goals regarding Financial inclusion. Our customers, based in over 80 countries, benefit every day from our technologies and software, as well as the expertise of our 5,000 employees. Sopra Banking Software is a subsidiary of the Sopra Steria Group, a European leader in consulting, digital services and software development. With more than 46,000 employees, the Sopra Steria Group generated a turnover of €4.7 billion in 2021. And with the power of our parent group, Sopra Steria, behind us, anything is possible for our teams and our partners.

**Job Description**:
**Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelor's or higher engineering degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, or equivalent additional professional experience.
- 2-3 years of experience in developing solutions in the field of Data Analytics as an Sr. Developer in global organizations from concept to production that are based on Cloud Technologies & cater to Distributed Systems and Microservices architecture principles
- Mature and Motivated individual having good hands-on experience with Data and Analytics technologies with strong technical skills due to the complexity of the current architecture and usage of the platform
- 8+ years of industry experience in design, development, deployments, operations and managing non-functional perspectives of complex technical platform.

**Required Skills & Qualifications**
- Proven technical expertise and hands-on involvement in Developing cloud solutions for Data Analytics
- Design & Build data pipelines with Spark with strong hands-on experience in distributed systems using technologies like Hadoop/MapReduce, Spark, Scala, SQL, Hive, Kafka.
- Ability to learn and work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.
- Strong communicator with ability to collaborate cross-functionally, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

**Desirable Skills & Qualifications**
- Past experience with DataLake and DataLake House Architecture
- Working experience with Public Cloud preferably AWS and Cloud Architecture principles: IaaC deployment, Serverless approach, auto-scaling
- Hands-on with Data processing technologies like Spark, NoSQL DataBase e.g. MongoDB and Data modelling experience in Relational, NoSQL databases
- Experience with CICD pipelines, DevOps / Container architecture: Docker, Kubernetes (must), Helm, service mesh
- Good understanding of security principles around Data governance
- Data lineage: Monitoring / Alerting / Logging
- Previous Experience with programming language like Java, Python, Spring framework etc.

**What you will do**
- Build software products for banking and financing institutions with R&D teams that are openly collaborative, are non-hierarchical, respect contributions and work with agility.
- Develop products as per the technology roadmap of our organization. Understand product capabilities and strategize technology for its alignment with business objectives.
- Engage end to end in product development, starting from business requirements to realization of product and to its deployment in production.
- Identify risks or opportunities associated with current or new technology use. Plan and execute PoC’s as necessary.
- Continuously improve internal software architecture processes and technology.
- Provide technical guidance to product team to ensure quality and efficiency of solutions.
- Able to technically guide a core team of highly skilled individuals
- Should have excellent communication skills.

Total Experience Expected: 08-11 years

Additional Information

Secondary Location: Noida Campus

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.

All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.