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 prospect 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).

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.

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).

Security, compliance, and risk management
- Embed secure engineering practices (threat modelling participation, 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 peop

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