Location Name: NR Trident Tech Park

Job Purpose

Bajaj Finserv Web is a critical component of the company’s omnipresence strategy. You will be working with India’s largest NBFC’s web technology stack, encompassing over 40 business lines and 230+ features, with nearly 500 million traffic and managing over 30,000 webpages.

It is an integrated platform offering a portfolio of products covering payments, cards, wallets, loans, deposits, mutual funds, and loans on lifestyle products, ranging from consumer durables to home furnishings.

The Technical Architect will lead a major implementation project, collaborating with various POD teams to ensure timely delivery and utilizing technologies like AEM, frontend frameworks, AWS/Azure, and DevOps, while focusing on customer segmentation and personalization.

Duties And Responsibilities

Technology Architecture and Roadmap
Create a robust Architecture for the new Web Platform looking at non-Functional aspects including Security, Performance, Scalability and Availability
Lead, Define, maintain, and own platform and solution architecture for the Customer Facing Asset within wider IT Compliance
Ensure that the roadmap contains the new and yet-to-release features of the core base products like Adobe experience Manager, Node JS, React JS, Solid JS, AWS, DevOps pipeline, Adobe Target, Adobe and Google Analytics, NewRelic, Akamai and various other frameworks
Must be able to create a validation framework to measure and report the effectiveness of Architecture
Must be able to create a culture of industry benchmarking before releasing or opting any new product/framework and be able to define a robust roadmap and evolution of the same with respect to the current and future needs of the One Web Platform
Collaborate with IT Teams, Marketing teams, Data teams and partners across the organization to create a sustainable and achievable framework for the platform
Must be able to create a strong understanding of the backend infrastructure and systems while delivering a dynamic, personalized and customer first integrated asset
Work collaboratively with various partners to define the Security Architecture of platform including Video hosting, Caching, Security feature like DOS
Executing POCs to validate technology roadmaps, feasibilities & possibilities with scalable solutions which are also versatile, inter-operable, can co-exist in the overall ecosystem and cost effective
Must create a wholistic Auto Scalable and Highly Available environment across all key components including Node servers, AEM Servers, DAM and other such critical components of the One Web Asset
Leverage and sponsor innovation work, both through internal incubators and company's external start-up network to create, evaluate, and introduce novel technical capabilities into the platform
Foster a culture of innovation and engineering excellence across the Enterprise: modern engineering practices, adoption of open source and open standards, creating a culture of collaboration and efficiency
Ensure that throughout the year including peak sales season, digital assets continue to perform the best by suggesting robust technology frameworks, right infrastructure, and correct data flow processes
Analyze data like drop-offs, bounce rate etc. to constantly evaluate and improve process flows and to identify any tool ideas for processes improvements that can be built to attract the online customer
Partner with Engineering teams across BFL to create an environment that provides an optimal Infrastructure Developer Experience for, from IDE and CI/CD through to IaaS provisioning and Cloud Native Service on-boarding frameworks|2. Leadership and Team development
Add strategic value to processes through competition mapping and best practices adoption
Scout the technology landscape to ensure adoption of emerging solutions and maintain innovative edge
Participate in Project presentation with project priorities, timelines, quarterly plans, etc. to Vertical Head for sign-off
Inspire and influence others to think differently, solve problems, and seize opportunities
Work with cross-functional teams to set and achieve targets for cross-selling
Determine individual training needs & development plans to build expertise and enhance skills
Set objectives, conduct reviews, and close appraisal processes for the team as per timelines
Ensure high employee engagement and morale through right management interventions while ensuring a deep emotional intelligence in approach
Establish performance expectations and regularly review individual performance of the team
Identify and create development opportunities for team members to enhance technical knowledge
Work towards customer business outcomes, ensuring there is a strong connection between delivery activities and business objectives

Key Decisions / Dimensions

 Recommendations on existing architecture of AEM to get it integrated with NODE JS and REACT JS as major architecture component to build optimal solution to handle very high traffic with minimal infra

 Development workflow definition to reduce major gaps and bandwidth challenges

 Onboard and offload Partner and internal resource on basis of POD requirement for deliverables

 Internal and external training program for the freshers and byte employee to build their career as per interest

 Development build checklist for every deployment to maintain hygiene on PROD servers

 API structure and integration approaches to build Mobile and Web App

 Common content across both APP and Web platform to reduce repetitive task and steps

 Product and technology evaluation to meet the business use cases/requirement

 Finance evolution for technology unit within Marketing department

 All decisions towards quality delivery to release quality products

Major Challenges

 Innovative architecture definition which integrates seamlessly with Marketing product suites and tools

 Data driven architecture to utilize user behavioral and transactional data to provide prefer user experience for acquisitions of new users

 New finance products and capabilities understanding to build business driven solutions with collaboration of data and marketing products

 Systems and technologies need to be continuously evolved/ changed within minimum time to manage growing business volumes

 Constant training to byte hires and new joiners for optimum results

Required Qualifications And Experience

Qualifications
Tech – Computer Science and Engineering
Work Experience

 Minimum 9-12 years of experience in software development with a strong focus on web content management systems particularly AEM, React JS, Solid JS, Node Js along with DevOps practices

 Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the finance industry and experience in leading technical deliveries.

 Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Java/JEE, AEM, and associated technologies like OSGi, Sling, JCR, Apache, React JS, Solid JS, Node JS, Akamai

 Frontend Skills: Solid knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and related frameworks (React JS, Solid JS). Experience with frontend technologies like Bootstrap, Backbone.js, ReactJS, Handlebars, Grunt, Angular, CSS3, HTML5, and jQuery.

 Cloud and DevOps: Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and DevOps tools (Jenkins, Maven). Strong knowledge of cloud-native approaches and platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP. Experience with SaaS-based implementation of AEM as Cloud Service, AEM SDK (preferred).

 Leadership: Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and mentor development teams.

 Project Management: Lead and involve in planning and estimations of Adobe projects. Lead all tracks of the project from frontend, backend, QA, and project management.

 AEM Expertise: Strong hands-on experience in components, templates, taxonomy, metadata management, forward and reverse replication, workflow, content publishing and unpublishing, tagging, deployment (Maven), and content migration/planning.

 Infrastructure: Strong physical architecture concepts (infrastructure) including load balancers (ELB), Apache setup, CDN, disaster recovery, recommending capacity of AEM publish and author instances.

 Quality Assurance: Implemented quality processes for projects like continuous integration (Bamboo/Jenkins/Git/BitBucket/Cloud Manager), SonarQube, code reviews (manual and automated), code formatters, automation testing, etc.

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