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Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Job Number: 28910

Position Title: Lead Software Engineer

External Description:

Our Team

The Core Technology Group (CTG) is the innovation hub within Informatica that is responsible for delivering an extensible, reliable and scalable platform that provides the solid foundation for all other Informatica products. Specifically, our team focusses on building a high performance and scalable Data Engine that can scale on multi-processor environments as well on a cluster of nodes. The engine is capable of handling batch, request/response and real-time workloads to deliver data for applications. Here are some of the key areas the team works on:

  • Cross compiler to translate representation of a data flow plan from one engine to another such as Hadoop
  • Reducing latency and processing time of query operations to return instantaneous results
  • Delivering large data sets to client applications with extremely high throughput 
  • Enable the Data Engine to be available across on-premise, cloud, Hadoop and embedded applications

Your Opportunity

The Data Engine has been a key constituent of Informatica’s platform and serves multiple products such as Data Services, Data Quality and Profiling. Informatica products rely on the Data Engine to fulfill the vision of a Virtual Data Machine which is capable of executing data integration jobs either natively or across execution environments such as relational databases, Hadoop or cloud. You will be a key contributor to Informatica’s next generation platform and how it handles the volume, velocity and variety of structured and unstructured data. It could be enterprise and partner data from hosted Cloud services and on-premise deployments or arbitrary data from social web sites and media.

Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking to hire an engineer who has worked on developing large scale data management or database products. One who has advanced problem-solving skills and technical aptitudes that will allow one to adapt to new circumstances and learn quickly when facing new problems and challenges. One who can communicate effectively with geographically separated team members and drive problems to solution. You relish the opportunity to work on building optimizations that improve data processing performance across different use cases that include batch, request/response and real-time systems.

Your Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be based in Bangalore, India and will be responsible for:

  • Facilitating the collaboration and engagement between senior members of the team to ensure sound design and implementation of key functionality areas for the product
  • Incubating and designing the next generation platform for complex heterogeneous systems and applications involving cutting edge technologies.
  • Working closely with architects and development and QA engineers to discuss and evangelize features
  • Collaborating with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
  • Participating in internal/cross team meetings, scoping, decision making and technical documentation
  • Mentoring junior engineers on technical, architectural, design and related issues
  • Architect the Cloud deployment, collaborating with Operations teams to design the next generation of application deployment architecture, and developing the orchestration strategy and automation framework for the product delivery process
  • Liason with the Informatica Cloud Ops team to Operate and administer the Informatica Cloud Services (ICS) and infrastructure using Chef/Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, SumoLogic and monitoring tools.
  • Perform incident/alert troubleshooting, problem analysis and provide high quality solutions to technical issues.
  • Proactively identifying architectural weaknesses and recommending appropriate solutions
  • Ensures high quality of all development work; follows development process without guidance, but with reviews.
  • Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
  • Takes ownership and responsibility, keeps management well-informed.
  • Follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
  • Understands impact of work on the feature/product/team.
  • Guides own work to timely and complete conclusions.
  • Organizes own activities reliably; during critical time periods, works hard to achieve tasks.

Representative accountabilities may include, but are not limited to:

  • Leading and driving the delivery and architecture for significantly large functional areas in the product
  • Taking ownership for features in the platform that cut across multiple product groups
  • Designing, implementing, documenting, analyzing and operationalizing platform features clearly to ensure that others may readily utilize them
  • Interacting with QA and documentation teams to clearly communicate the features and behaviors of the system
  • Reviewing functional and test specifications and conducting training sessions for global services and support teams
  • Assisting customers and field engineers with troubleshooting issues and problems

Your Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred
  • 6 or more years of server-side software development experience, a portion of which was within an enterprise software company
  • Hands-on experience installing, configuring, analyzing, optimizing, and troubleshooting systems and system related technology
  • Knowledge of database internals such as query optimizations, developing core scalable parts of system or server-side multi-threaded development experience is essential
  • Design experience preferably with product engineering background
  • Object oriented design and programming.
  • Strong programming skills in Java and/or C++ (Scala is desired as well)
  • Understanding of Unix/NT systems programming.
  • Knowledge of Hadoop, Hive, and Spark is highly desired
  • Knowledge of Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, etc) is highly desired
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes or containerization is desired.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
  • Proven ability to work well with others in a fast paced, iterative product definition and development environment
  • Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
  • Able to work independently with little direct supervision and take initiative; willing to mentor and develop others
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills within an organization

City: Bangalore

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Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

Travel Requirement: Limited

Location_formattedLocationLong: Bangalore, Karnataka IN

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