Lead Java Developer

Role Summary:-

• Design, develop, test, and enhance secure, scalable applications supporting the end-to-end onboarding of asset and wealth management clients and accounts. The role will work across Java-based services, React user interfaces, SQL data stores, and Unix-hosted processes while collaborating with product, operations, compliance, and engineering teams.
• Key Responsibilities
• Develop and enhance Java services, APIs, business rules, and workflow components for client and account onboarding.
• Build responsive React interfaces for data capture, document handling, exception resolution, status tracking, and operational review.
• Design and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, data models, and reconciliation controls.
• Develop Unix shell scripts for batch processing, file transfers, scheduling, monitoring, and operational automation.
• Integrate onboarding applications with client master, document management, KYC/AML screening, identity verification, account opening, and downstream platforms.
• Translate business, compliance, and operational requirements into technical designs and reusable software components.
• Write secure, maintainable, and testable code; conduct peer reviews and resolve defects across the delivery lifecycle.
• Build automated unit, integration, regression, and API tests and support user acceptance testing.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, release planning, production deployment, and post-release validation.
• Improve application performance, auditability, resilience, data quality, and onboarding cycle time.
• Required Technical Skills
• Strong hands-on development experience in Java, including object-oriented design, collections, concurrency, exception handling, and performance tuning.
• Experience with Spring or Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and common enterprise integration patterns.
• Hands-on React experience, including JavaScript or TypeScript, component design, state management, API integration, and front-end testing.
• Strong SQL skills covering complex queries, joins, stored procedures, indexing, execution-plan analysis, and data troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux commands, shell scripting, process management, log analysis, and batch scheduling.
• Experience with Git, build tools, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and application monitoring.
• Understanding of secure coding, authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging, and protection of confidential client data.
• Domain and Functional Knowledge
• Understanding of asset and wealth management client onboarding, account opening, client and account data, document collection, approvals, and downstream activation.
• Awareness of KYC, AML, sanctions screening, tax documentation, suitability, beneficial ownership, and regulatory recordkeeping concepts.
• Ability to understand onboarding workflows, identify manual handoffs and control gaps, and support process automation.
• Qualifications and Competencies
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with the ability to work across distributed teams.
• Experience delivering software in a regulated financial-services environment.
• Ability to balance business delivery, client experience, operational control, and technology risk.
• Preferred Skills
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, messaging technologies, and automated deployment.
• Exposure to workflow or business-process-management platforms and rules engines.
• Knowledge of observability tools, accessibility standards, and performance engineering.