Java - Associate Director

Job Summary

Java - Associate Director

Location

Noida

Company

Iris Software

Job Description

• Skills and Experience: 16+ years of experience in software engineering, technology leadership, architecture, platform engineering, or engineering management roles.
• 8+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations within Banking, Commercial Banking, Financial Services domains.
• Demonstrated experience managing engineering organizations supporting 150+ technology professionals across multiple applications and platforms.
• Strong experience driving platform modernization, cloud transformation, engineering excellence, and large-scale quality improvement programs.
• Proven experience building and scaling platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, quality engineering, and architecture governance functions.
• Experience leading technology transformation initiatives involving modernization, cloud adoption, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and engineering productivity improvements.
• Technical Leadership Competencies
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, Architecture Governance, and Quality Engineering.
• Demonstrated success in reducing technical debt, improving engineering productivity, and driving measurable quality outcomes.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled software development lifecycle and emerging engineering practices.
• Ability to influence senior technology executives and drive engineering transformation across complex organizations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking capabilities.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change and establish a culture of engineering ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Education: Bachelors / Masters degree in a Software discipline.

Mandatory Competencies

• Programming Language - Java - Java 17 or latest
• Middleware - API Middleware - Microservices
• Programming Language - Java - Java Multithreading
• Programming Language - Java - OOPS Concepts
• Tech - Unit Testing
• Programming Language - Java - JPA
• Programming Language - Java - Design Principles + Design Patterns + Architecture Patterns
• Middleware - Java Middleware - Springboot
• Database - Oracle - Database Design
• Development Tools and Management - Development Tools and Management - Maven
• Middleware - Message Oriented Middleware - Messaging (JMS, ActiveMQ, RabitMQ, Kafka, SQS, ASB etc)