Associate Lead

Associate Lead 

Job Purpose 

Bajaj Finserv Web is a critical component of the company's omnipresence strategy. You will be working with India's largest NBFC's web technology stack, encompassing over 40 business lines and 230+ features, with nearly 500 million traffic and managing over 30,000 webpages.

It is an integrated platform offering a portfolio of products covering payments, cards, wallets, loans, deposits, mutual funds, and loans on lifestyle products, ranging from consumer durables to home furnishings.

The Technical Architect will lead a major implementation project, collaborating with various POD teams to ensure timely delivery and utilizing technologies like AEM, frontend frameworks, AWS/Azure, and DevOps, while focusing on customer segmentation and personalization.

Duties and Responsibilities- Technology Architecture and Roadmap
- Create a robust Architecture for the new Web Platform looking at non-Functional aspects including Security, Performance, Scalability and Availability
- Lead, define, maintain, and own platform and solution architecture for the Customer Facing Asset within wider IT Compliance
- Ensure that the roadmap contains the new and yet-to-release features of the core base products like Adobe Experience Manager, Node JS, React JS, Solid JS, AWS, DevOps pipeline, Adobe Target, Adobe and Google Analytics, NewRelic, Akamai and various other frameworks
- Create a validation framework to measure and report the effectiveness of Architecture
- Foster a culture of industry benchmarking before releasing or opting any new product/framework and define a robust roadmap and evolution of the same with respect to the current and future needs of the One Web Platform
- Collaborate with IT Teams, Marketing teams, Data teams and partners across the organization to create a sustainable and achievable framework for the platform
- Create a strong understanding of the backend infrastructure and systems while delivering a dynamic, personalized and customer-first integrated asset
- Work with various partners to define the Security Architecture of platform including Video hosting, Caching, Security features like DOS
- Execute POCs to validate technology roadmaps, feasibilities & possibilities with scalable, versatile, interoperable, and cost-effective solutions
- Create a holistic Auto Scalable and Highly Available environment across all key components including Node servers, AEM Servers, DAM and other critical components
- Leverage and sponsor innovation work, both through internal incubators and external start-up networks to create, evaluate, and introduce novel technical capabilities into the platform
- Foster a culture of innovation and engineering excellencemodern engineering practices, adoption of open source and open standards, collaboration and efficiency
- Ensure digital assets perform optimally year-round, including peak sales season, by suggesting robust technology frameworks, infrastructure, and correct data flow processes
- Analyze data like drop-offs, bounce rate, etc., to improve process flows and identify tool ideas for process improvements to attract online customers
- Partner with Engineering teams across BFL to create optimal Infrastructure Developer Experience, from IDE and CI/CD through to IaaS provisioning and Cloud Native Service on-boarding frameworks
- Leadership and Team Development
- Add strategic value to processes through competition mapping and best practices adoption
- Scout the technology landscape to ensure adoption of emerging solutions and maintain innovative edge
- Participate in Project presentation with project priorities, timelines, quarterly plans, etc. to Vertical Head for sign-off
- Inspire and influence others to think differently, solve problems, and seize opportunities
- Work with cross-functional teams to set and achieve targets for cross-selling
- Determine individual training needs & development plans to build expertise and enhance skills
- Set objectives, conduct reviews, and close appraisal processes for the team as per timelines
- Ensure high employee engagement and morale through right management interventions and emotional intelligence
- Establish performance expectations and regularly review individual performance
- Identify and create development opportunities for team members to enhance technical knowledge
- Work towards customer business outcomes, ensuring a strong connection between delivery activities and business objectives
- Professional Experience and Qualification
years of experience in leading Technical Deliveries preferably in Fintech or Ecommerce company
- Must have led teams of 25+ people across multiple domains and skills
- FinTech or Ecommerce experience is desirable
- In-depth understanding of Adobe Experience Manager and ability to drive a team of developers and architects effectively
- Certified in Adobe Experience Manager or similar tools
- Hands-on skills in technology, specifically inAdobe Experience Manager, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Launch/DTM, Adobe Campaign, SEO, CDN
- Strong hands-on experience with mainline programming and scripting languages such as Java
- Experience architecting Websites using Adobe Experience Manager
- Experience building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and CI/CD workflows and tools
- Relevant experience with Agile and Scaled Agile frameworks, DevSecOps methodologies & continuous improvement mindset
- Solid understanding of eCommerce and Digital Marketing landscape, with strong business acumen
- Understanding of security, risk, and compliance management processes in IT solutions delivery
- Ability to lead, mentor, and guide a team of developers and Architects

Key Decisions / Dimensions- Recommendations on existing architecture of AEM to integrate with Node JS and React JS as major architecture components to build optimal solutions for high traffic with minimal infrastructure
- Development workflow definition to reduce major gaps and bandwidth challenges
- Onboarding and offloading Partner and internal resources based on POD requirements for deliverables
- Internal and external training programs for freshers and byte employees to build their careers
- Development build checklist for every deployment to maintain hygiene on PROD servers
- API structure and integration approaches to build Mobile and Web Apps
- Common content across both APP and Web platform to reduce repetitive tasks and steps
- Product and technology evaluation to meet business use cases/requirements
- Finance evaluation for technology unit within Marketing department
- All decisions towards quality delivery to release quality products

Major Challenges- Innovative architecture definition which integrates seamlessly with Marketing product suites and tools
- Data-driven architecture to utilize user behavioral and transactional data to provide preferred user experience for acquisition of new users
- Understanding new finance products and capabilities to build business-driven solutions through data and marketing products collaboration
- Continuously evolving systems and technologies in minimal time to manage growing business volumes
- Constant training to new hires for optimum results

Required Qualifications and Experience- Qualifications:  B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
- Work Experience:  Minimum 9-12 years of experience in software development with a strong focus on web content management systems, particularly AEM, React JS, Solid JS, Node JS, along with DevOps practices
- Industry Knowledge:  Knowledge of the finance industry and experience in leading technical deliveries
- Technical Expertise:  Proficiency in Java/JEE, AEM, and associated technologies like OSGi, Sling, JCR, Apache, React JS, Solid JS, Node JS, Akamai
- FrontendSkills:
- Solid knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and related frameworks (React JS, Solid JS). Experience with frontend technologies like Bootstrap, , ReactJS, Handlebars, Grunt, Angular, CSS3, HTML5, and jQuery
- Cloud and DevOps:  Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and DevOps tools (Jenkins, Maven). Strong knowledge of cloud-native approaches and platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP. Experience with SaaS-based implementation of AEM as Cloud Service, AEM SDK (preferred)
- Leadership:  Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and mentor development teams
- Project Management:  Lead and involve in planning and estimations of Adobe projects. Lead all tracks of the projectfrontend, backend, QA, and project management
- AEM Expertise:  Strong hands-on experience in components, templates, taxonomy, metadata management, forward and reverse replication, workflow, content publishing and unpublishing, tagging, deployment (Maven), and content migration/planning
- Infrastructure:  Strong physical architecture concepts (infrastructure) including load balancers (ELB), Apache setup, CDN, disaster recovery, recommending capacity of AEM publish and author instances
- Quality Assurance:  Implemented quality processes for projects like continuous integration (Bamboo/Jenkins/Git/BitBucket/Cloud Manager), SonarQube, code reviews (manual and automated), code formatters, automation testing, etc.