Senior Engineering Lead ( Java /Microservices / GCP)/Sr Associate director

Hands-on delivery (Java-centric)

• Architect, Design and build core services using Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA , PostgreSQL (or any RDBMS ), and event streaming patterns.
• Lead real-time processing implementations using Apache Flink (and/or Apache Beam) where appropriate.
• Partners with engineers in code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and production incident resolution.
• Build automation for engineering efficiency (scripting, tooling, testing), leveraging Python where needed.

Cloud, data & platform engineering (GCP)

• Drive engineering delivery on GCP : Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery (and/or ClickHouse), and GKE.
• Own operational excellence for production workloads: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimization.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, lineage and security controls across pipelines and downstream consumption.

People leadership & stakeholder management

• Coach and mentor engineers across levels; build a culture of craftsmanship, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders—translating business outcomes into technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies and delivery impediments with clear mitigation and escalation paths.

Required skills & experience

• 15+ years in software engineering, including significant experience designing and delivering distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Strong hands-on Java experience (recent and demonstrable) with Spring Boot , REST/event-driven services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), and SQL performance tuning.
• Proven system design skills: microservices patterns, async messaging, idempotency, consistency models, caching, rate limiting, and failure handling.
• Solid experience delivering cloud-native solutions, preferably GCP (or equivalent cloud with ability to translate).
• Strong troubleshooting ability across applications, data, infrastructure and performance layers.
• Clear communicator; able to align architecture decisions with business priorities and operational constraints.

Desirable / nice to have

• Kubernetes and deployment tooling: GKE , Helm , CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver/Cloud Monitoring , distributed tracing.
• Security practices in cloud/Kubernetes: secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, secure SDLC.
• Front-end exposure (helpful, not essential): React, TypeScript .
• MongoDB and polyglot persistence experience.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India