Project Role : Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : Scala
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Data Architecture Team Lead to define and drive the architecture of scalable, maintainable data pipelines for real-time banking data products. In this role, you will lead architectural decisions across the end-to-end data platform, including mainframe CDC ingestion, Confluent Kafka, Apache Spark Structured Streaming on Amazon EMR, and MongoDB Atlas. You will play a critical role in onboarding recent applications, establishing architecture standards, and ensuring consistency, scalability, and reliability across the applicaiton.

Roles & Responsibilities:
Define and enforce architectural standards for real-time Spark Structured Streaming pipelines across the DDS platform
Lead architectural design for new application onboarding (NewApp KT) including data flow design, collection modeling and CDC subscription definition
Evaluate and propose improvements to existing pipeline architectures for performance, scalability and maintainability
Define MongoDB collection schemas, indexing strategies and write patterns (upsert, bulk write, TTL indexes)
Design Kafka topic structures,



partition strategies and CDC subscription configurations in collaboration with IBM CDC and Confluent teams
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including HOST/mainframe, GFT, CDC squad and platform engineering
Produce and maintain architecture documentation — high-level design diagrams, data flow documents and ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
Review technical designs proposed by development team members and provide architectural guidance
Support production deployments across INT, PRE and PRO environments on Amazon EMR
Technical Skills:
Must have:
Scala and Apache Spark — deep understanding of Structured Streaming internals, execution model and performance tuning
Data architecture — experience designing end-to-end real-time data pipelines
MongoDB — collection design, indexing, aggregation pipelines, Atlas architecture
Kafka — topic design, partition strategy, consumer group management, Confluent Cloud
AWS — EMR, S3, CloudWatch
Good to have:
IBM CDC / Change Data Capture — subscription design, table filtering, multi-table refresh
Delta Lake on S3
Banking domain knowledge — account movements, transaction processing, balance calculation
Jenkins, SonarQube, Bitbucket
Java
Desirable:
Experience with mainframe DB2 data structures
Knowledge of IBAN calculation standards
Experience with MongoDB Atlas cross-cluster architectures
Experience: Minimum 6 years of experience in data engineering with at least 2 years in a technical architecture or lead role.

15 years full time education

📌 Custom Software Engineer (India)
🏢 Accenture
📍 India