The Role: S&P; Dow Jones Indices a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets, is looking for a 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
What’s in it for you: You will have the opportunity to work on the enhancements to the existing index calculation system as well as implement current 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).
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 .NET codepaths to 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 for clean 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).

📌 Lead Application Developer (Mumbai)
🏢 S&P Global
📍 Mumbai