Lead Java Developer

Job DescriptionL2 Onshore Lead - Enterprise Applications\nResponsibilities\nTechnical Leadership\n\nArchitecture and Design: Partner with client stakeholders to define technical architecture that supports scalable, secure, and high-performing delivery across globally distributed teams. Help create and maintain design documents that clearly communicate technical direction to stakeholders globally.\nCode Quality: Ensure coding standards are met, lead code reviews, and promote engineering best practices to ensure consistency, maintainability, and shared accountability in a distributed delivery model.\nTechnical Decisions: Drive critical decisions on frameworks, libraries, and technologies by balancing innovation, business priorities, stakeholder expectations, and implementation realities across regions as necessary.\nProblem-Solving: Act as the escalation point for complex technical issues, coordinating timely resolution across stakeholders and development teams while maintaining momentum and clarity.\nDiff Review: Lead and own the diff review process within the immediate team.\n\nTeam & Operational Management\n\nTeam Metrics: Monitor and report on delivery and engineering metrics, in conjunction with the domain head to provide transparency to stakeholders and support continuous improvement.\nE.g. Deployment Frequency, Work in Progress (WIP), Cycle Time, Defect Density, etc.\nSprint Leadership: Lead sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and other operational activities in a way that supports collaboration, accountability, and smooth execution across time zones.\nManage Sprint Board (when applicable): Oversee sprint board hygiene, task movement, backlog readiness, and equitable task distribution to maintain visibility and execution discipline across the distributed team.\nCommunication Standards: Ensure the team documents work and comments consistently in accordance with client and internal expectations so stakeholders and delivery teams have clear, traceable context.\nPlanning and Estimation: Partner with stakeholders globally to break down features, clarify scope, and estimate timelines with development teams in India.\nRisk Management: In conjunction with the domain head, help identify risks, dependencies, and blockers early, communicate them clearly across stakeholder and engineering groups, and drive mitigation or escalation as needed.\n\nTeam Collaboration & Mentorship\n\nMentoring: Support junior and mid-level engineers through code pairing, technical guidance, while fostering strong collaboration habits in a globally distributed environment.\nCross-Team Collaboration: Act as the primary bridge between stakeholders in the US, Singapore, and the UK and development teams in India, ensuring shared understanding of priorities, requirements, timelines, dependencies, and delivery commitments.\nStakeholder Communication: Facilitate clear, timely, and structured communication between business stakeholders and engineering teams, translating business goals into actionable technical plans and relaying progress, risks, feedback, and decisions back to stakeholders.\nKnowledge Sharing: Drive documentation, code comments, handovers, and cross-training activities that improve continuity, reduce dependency on individuals, and support effective collaboration across regions.\n\nOther Responsibilities\n\nHands-on Coding: Contribute to implementation, especially for critical features, prototypes, or complex technical areas, while balancing leadership and coordination responsibilities.\nDevOps and CI/CD: Support smooth deployments, monitor system health, and reinforce automated testing and release discipline to enable reliable delivery across distributed teams.\n\n\nMinimum qualifications\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience\n8+ years of programming experience in a relevant language or 4+ years of experience + PhD\nTrack record of setting technical direction for a team, driving consensus and successful cross-functional partnerships\nHands-on experience with managing enterprise scale platform development, integrations, and on-call production support\nExperience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques, especially in an enterprise environment\nExperience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes\n\n\nPreferred qualifications\n\nExperience as a team lead and/or technical architect with a large scope across one or multiple domains (e.g. Accounting, Supply Chain, HR, or Procurement)\nIn-depth knowledge of one or multiple functional domains (e.g. Accounting, Supply Chain, HR, or Procurement)\nDemonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)\n\n