Java Technical Lead
Citi (company site, opens in a new tab)12+ yrsPuneHybridDirect career pageEst. 40–70 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Own architecture and technical direction for enterprise-scale Java platforms, including distributed microservices, event-driven design, and modernization initiatives.
- Set engineering, API, security, and delivery standards; oversee cloud-native deployment, production resilience, performance, and disaster recovery.
- Translate business priorities into technical roadmaps and lead design reviews, incident reviews, and technical guidance across teams.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: Minimum 12+ years in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, and technical leadership, including 4–6 years as a Technical Lead or Systems Architect.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent work experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java and Spring, distributed microservices, event-driven architecture with Kafka, and containerized services on Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Material technical scope includes cloud-native delivery, CI/CD and observability, relational and NoSQL data systems, and application security and resilience.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- A senior technical authority who has shaped architecture across multiple teams and can balance near-term delivery with long-term platform integrity.
- Best suited to mission-critical, high-volume systems work involving availability, low latency, performance tuning, modernization, and operational risk.
- Likely to succeed in a regulated enterprise environment, partnering with business and technology leaders while establishing engineering governance and mentoring developers.