Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst - Assistant Vice President

Overview

Intermediate-level Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst role responsible for participating in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team.

What you'll do

• Monitor and control all phases of the development process, including analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation, and provide user and operational support on applications to business users.
• Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems and issues, evaluate business processes, system processes and industry standards, and make evaluative judgements.
• Recommend and develop security measures in post-implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality.
• Consult with users, clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems.
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts.
• Operate with limited direct supervision, exercising independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Act as SME to senior stakeholders and/or other team members.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

What you'll need

• 7 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in Big Data Engineering using Scala or Java.
• Experience designing and developing Scala-related data pipelines and REST APIs.
• Deep knowledge of Spark and experience with the Scala API.
• Good experience with Hadoop, Big Data and Hadoop-centric schedulers.
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects.
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques and methods.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Hands-on Ab Initio experience (graphs, plans, PDL, DML) and a track record designing and developing ETL pipelines/services.
• Experience migrating from Ab Initio to Python workloads.
• Strong data processing at scale, both file-based and streaming pipelines with Kafka integration.
• CI/CD expertise: Git-based workflows, automated testing, artifact/version management, environment promotion.
• Practical use of AI engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, code assistants/agents) in daily development and reviews.
• Excellent communication, clear, concise and audience-appropriate, with strong stakeholder management.
• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Python experience for designing and developing Scala-related data pipelines and REST APIs.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Job family group: Technology; job family: Applications Development.