Lead Application Developer

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 11

The Role: SP Dow Jones Indices, a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets, is looking for a Senior Lead Application Developer to join our technology team.

The Team: You will be part of global technology team comprising of Dev, QA and BA teams and will be responsible for analysis, design, development and testing.

The Impact: You will be working on one of the core technology platforms responsible for index calculations as well as dissemination of index values.

Whats in it for you: You will have the opportunity to work on the enhancements to the existing index calculation system as well as implement new methodologies as required.

Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership delivery ownership: Own end-to-end technical execution for modernization and migration initiatives (scope, design, implementation, quality, and delivery milestones).

• Modernization strategy (from .NET MVC to cloud-native)

• Assess current .NET/C#/MVC applications (dependencies, coupling, data access patterns, hosting, performance bottlenecks, security gaps).

• Define modernization approach per capability: rehost/refactor/re-architect/replace, prioritizing quick wins and risk reduction.

• AWS cloud-native implementation

• Design and guide build-out of cloud foundations required for modern apps (networking, environments, security, observability, CI/CD).

• Ensure production readiness: performance testing strategy, failure-mode testing, rollout/rollback procedures.

• Migration to existing AWS/Java (Spring/Hibernate) platforms

• Lead functional migration from .NETcodepathsto Java-based services while maintaining correctness and availability.

• Define interoperability approach during transition (API contracts, adapters, strangler pattern, feature toggles, compatibility layers).

• Partner with platform owners to ensure migrated components comply with existing Java platform conventions and deployment pipelines.

• Engineering excellence SDLC

• Set standards forclean code, code reviews, test automation, branching/release strategy, and environment promotion.

• Drive test strategy across stacks: unit, contract, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests; improve automation coverage.

• Improve build/release reliability; reduce cycle time; implement guardrails (quality gates, vulnerability scanning as applicable).

• Security, compliance, and risk management

• Embed secure engineering practices (threatmodellingparticipation, secure coding standards, dependency hygiene).

• Ensure appropriate handling of secrets/credentials, least-privilege access, and auditability.

• Identify technical risks early (data migration risk, downtime, coupling, unknown dependencies) and drive mitigation plans.

• Team mentorship upskilling (explicit people mandate)

• Create an upskilling plan for the existing team: learning paths for AWS fundamentals, Java/Spring, cloud-native patterns, and DevOps practices.

• Stakeholder collaboration

• Partner with product/business stakeholders to prioritize modernization deliverables and manage trade-offs(time, scope, risk).

Coordinate with security, infrastructure/platform, and data teams to remove blockers and align on shared standards.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualification:

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering isrequired, or in lieu, a demonstratedequivalencein work experience.
• (10 to12) years of IT experience in application development and support.
• Strong Experience withJava, J2EE, JMS including Spring Framework
• Strongexperience with Microsoft .Net C#
• Strong experience with Microsoft .Net C# MVC web applications
• Strong Experience with Advanced SQL,T-SQL,PL/SQL programming
• Basic networking knowledge / Unix scripting
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in minimum three of following.

Advanced Python

Advanced Scala

Infrastructure/ CICD/DevOps

Big data / AWS Cloud / Micro services

Spark using scala / python/java andHDFS

Good understanding of AWS cloud (EC2, EMR, Lambda, S3, Glue, etc.)

Ansible / Fortify / Jenkins

QA Automation (cucumber ,selenium ,karateetc)

Exposure to addressing Vulnerabilities

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience working with large datasets in Equity, Commodities, Forex, Futures and Options asset classes.
• Experience with Index/Benchmarks or Asset Management or Trading platforms.
• Basic Knowledge of User Interface design development usingJQuery, HTML5 CSS.