Job Summary

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 Software Development Manager (SDM) will help build new features on a scalable, robust web platform, conduct code reviews and improve code quality by being hands-on and suggesting best practices and SOPs with AEM, Node JS and Solid JS tech stack.

Responsibilities

- Analyze Business Requirements: Conduct thorough analysis of business needs and translate them into detailed technical specifications.
- Create System Blueprints: Develop comprehensive system blueprints and diagrams to visualize the architecture and structure of IT systems.
- Select Technologies: Choose appropriate technologies, platforms, and frameworks that support the desired functionalities, scalability, and future growth of the system and get higher management buy-in.
- Documentation: Documenting every single component covering its functional, technical and business aspect and ensuring that it will always be updated.
- Collaborate with Development Teams: Work closely with SDM and development teams to ensure the design is executed successfully.
- Provide Guidance: Offer continuous guidance and direction to developers throughout the implementation process to ensure adherence to the design.
- Monitor Progress: Keep track of the implementation progress, addressing any issues or deviations from the design plan promptly to keep the project on track.
- Effective Communication: Act as the primary liaison between technical teams and stakeholders, including business leaders and project managers, to gather requirements and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
- Present Technical Proposals: Clearly present technical proposals and solutions to stakeholders in an understandable manner.
- Facilitate Discussions: Lead discussions and negotiations to resolve conflicts or discrepancies between different stakeholders' expectations.
- Conduct Testing and QA:



Perform thorough testing and quality assurance procedures to identify and address any issues or vulnerabilities in the system.
- Implement Best Practices: Apply best practices for system optimization, scalability, and fault tolerance to ensure high performance and reliability.
- Monitor Performance: Continuously monitor system performance metrics and implement corrective actions as needed to maintain optimal performance.
- Mentor and Coach: Mentor and coach team members to enhance their technical skills and capabilities.
- Set Standards: Establish technical standards and best practices for development and architecture within the organization.
- Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a subject matter expert on technology trends, emerging tools, and industry best practices, providing insights and guidance to the team.
- Stay Updated: Keep abreast of the latest technological advancements and evaluate their potential impact on the organization.
- Identify Opportunities: Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and efficiency gains within the technology landscape.
- Lead Innovation Initiatives: Lead initiatives to pilot new technologies or methodologies, assess their feasibility and impact.

Major Challenges

- Keeping Up with Technological Advancements: Rapid changes in technology require staying updated with trends, tools, and best practices.
- Continuous Learning: Constantly acquiring new skills and knowledge to remain relevant and effective in the role.
- Alert and Monitoring: Systems and processes should be in place to monitor each industrial event as KPI and ensure all KPIs are in place and working.
- Balancing Innovation with Practicality: Balancing new technologies with practicality and business perks.
- Risk Management: Assessing risk and ensuring innovations are beneficial for the organization.
- Feasibility:



Assessing feasibility of innovative solutions and balancing with existing systems and constraints.
- Managing Stakeholder Expectations: Communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and aligning with business goals.
- Scalability: Designing systems that can scale efficiently as the organization grows.
- Performance Optimization: Monitoring and optimizing system performance to meet reliability standards.
- Data Protection: Implementing robust security measures to protect data and comply with information security guidelines.
- Compliance: Ensuring systems comply with relevant regulations and standards.
- Enterprise network and Cloud: Maintaining reliable connectivity between on prem and cloud, addressing security, and integrating legacy systems with cloud solutions.
- Resource Constraints: Budget limitations and talent shortages, vendor resource management, etc.
- Integration with Legacy Systems: Compatibility and migration challenges.

Required Qualifications and Experience

a) Qualifications

B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering.

Work Experience

Should have 7-8 years of API development experience with at least 3+ years of experience as a technical architect involving Java, Spring Boot, Maven, Gradle, Queuing, DevOps, API, Micro-services, design patterns, BDD, unit tests, SonarQube.

Understand and troubleshoot technology problems and offer solutions. Understand the technology infrastructure and application architecture end to end. Code review for the source code delivered by the team. Understand the business requirements and deliver it through outsourced team. Support/lead new technology initiatives and related technology deliveries. Take part in evaluation of new products, POC, time bound RD and solution deliveries. Manage teams (internal and external)/projects within given cost and time. Plan, execute, track and report progress of initiatives taken up. Adopt new processes and improve existing processes to deliver better business solutions. Adhere to quality and information-security guidelines and processes including maintaining adequate documentation. Attend review meetings, business user meetings, IT meetings etc. Understand the system and application design. Mandatory to understand and take the requirement and get the team with quality.

📌 Unit Manager - Digital Platforms & Consumer Technology (Pune)
🏢 Bajaj Finance
📍 Pune