Associate Director

OSTTRA India

The Role: Associate Director - Software Engineer

The Team: The OSTTRA Technology team is composed of Capital Markets Technology professionals, who build, support and protect the applications that operate our network.  The technology landscape includes high-performance, high-volume applications as well as compute intensive applications, leveraging contemporary microservices, cloud-based architectures.

The Impact: Together, we build, support, protect and manage high-performance, resilient platforms that process more than 100 million messages a day. Our services are vital to automated trade processing around the globe, managing peak volumes and working with our customers and regulators to ensure the efficient settlement of trades and effective operation of global capital markets.

What's in it for you: We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead – Java with 12 to 15 years of experience who can lead a team of developers while actively contributing to system design and complex coding tasks. The ideal candidate should have deep proficiency in Core Java, strong database skills, excellent code review practices, and the ability to effectively engage with stakeholders, prioritize work, and drive task distribution across the team. This role is a blend of technical leadership, team mentoring, and project ownership.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of, contribution towards and alignment with the tech strategy of OSTTRA

• Lead end-to-end design, development and maintenance of scalable/distributed critical services, requiring high throughput.

• Hands-on development and fair experience of designing technical architecture while guiding the team on technical execution. Liase with enterprise architecture on more complex or new initiatives that are cross cutting

• Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define scope, and influence priorities.

• Perform peer code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure high-quality deliverables.

• Distribute work across the team, manage delivery timelines, and ensure workload balance.

• Drive sprint planning, estimation, and progress tracking.

• Identify technical risks and provide proactive solutions or mitigations.

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to developers and ensure team growth.
  Troubleshoot complex application and database issues in production and development environments.

What We're Looking For:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Core Technical Skills:

• Expert-level proficiency in Core Java, including OOP, Collections, Multithreading, and Java 8+ features.

• Strong experience in Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.

• Exposure to React / Angular UI

• Familiarity with ORM frameworks like Hibernate/JPA.

• Solid understanding of system design, design patterns, and architectural best practices.

• Strong experience in version control (Git), build tools (Maven/Gradle), and logging (SLF4J/Logback).

• Exposure to testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes.

• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira or Azure DevOps.

• Past experience of Investment management ( or BFSI in general)

• In-depth knowledge and proven experience of SQL and RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) with strong database design and query tuning skills.

Soft Skills:

• Strong stakeholder communication and expectation management.

• Excellent work prioritization and task delegation capabilities.

• Proven team leadership, mentorship, and conflict resolution skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight timelines

The Location: Gurgaon, India

About Company Statement:

OSTTRA is a market leader in derivatives post-trade processing, bringing innovation, expertise, processes and networks together to solve the post-trade challenges of global financial markets.  OSTTRA operates cross-asset post-trade processing networks, providing a proven suite of Credit Risk, Trade Workflow and Optimisation services. Together these solutions streamline post-trade workflows, enabling firms to connect to counterparties and utilities, manage credit risk, reduce operational risk and optimise processing to drive post-trade efficiencies.  

OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years:  MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset.  These businesses have an exemplary track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure and bring together an established community of market participants comprising all trading relationships and paradigms, connected using powerful integration and transformation capabilities.

About OSTTRA

Candidates should note that OSTTRA is an independent firm, jointly owned by S&P Global and CME Group.  As part of the joint venture, S&P Global provides recruitment services to OSTTRA - however, successful candidates will be interviewed and directly employed by OSTTRA, joining our global team of more than 1,200 post trade experts.

OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years:  MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset.  OSTTRA is a joint venture, owned 50/50 by S&P Global and CME Group.

 With an outstanding track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure, our combined network connects thousands of market participants to streamline end to end workflows - from trade capture at the point of execution, through portfolio optimization, to clearing and settlement.

Joining the OSTTRA team is a unique opportunity to help build a bold new business with an outstanding heritage in financial technology, playing a central role in supporting global financial markets. 

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What's In It For You?

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That's why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It's not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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