Job Description

At Franklin Templeton, we're driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that's both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients' achievements.
Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!
What is the FTT - Wealth Management Technology group responsible for?• FTT - Wealth Management Technology group is primarily responsible for providing technology support in terms of building new systems and applications along with enhancements and maintenance of existing systems for the smooth functioning of Fiduciary Trust International (FTI) LOB.


What is the Lead Software Engineer responsible for?• Lead Software Engineer Provides expertise, experience, and technical leadership for application design/development and production support activities to support business needs. Leads the definition of software design, development, and integration, and production support of highly complex issues. Mentors and develops more junior engineers.
• We are seeking a highly motivated and technical software engineer with solid experience in building technology for the Wealth Management Technology group. You will partner with product owners, technical leads, engineers, and other teams to develop complex software components and advise developers on coding standards and guidelines. You will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, and continuous learning to focus on all that you do.


What are the ongoing responsibilities of a Lead Software Engineer?•Software Engineering (40%): Owns the solution design.
• Leads definition of software design, development, and integration of highly complex software products incorporating extensive business domain knowledge.
• Studies known requirements for key solution design goals, incongruences, and assumptions.
• Learns new and evolving methods and techniques in software engineering.
• Leads evaluation of vendor software products.
• Provides expert level understanding of software architecture and behaviour in relevant business domain.
• Collaborates with other teams as an application expert capable of immediately evaluating broad domain impacts from proposed enterprise technology changes.
• Experiments with prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Sparks innovation by envisioning solutions that combine proven techniques with experimental results.

•Lead Software Engineer - Production Support (15%): Leads production support and troubleshooting of highly complex issues by providing application and business domain expertise.
• Negotiates, plans, and manages all release activities.
• Leads continuous improvement by analyzing and preparing recommendations to address existing and potential trouble areas within an application.
• Leads the research and preparation for audit response.
• Leads Disaster Recovery activities for assigned application(s).
• Leads Request For Service (RFS) process on behalf of the AD team to define infrastructure solutions.
• Leads technical interactions with vendors.
• Aides IT Manager in vendor roadmap alignment.

•Lead Software Engineer - Documentation (15%): Ensures all technical deliverables are consistent with architectural standards and guidelines.
• Provides technical review and validation of project documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, assumptions, risks, dependencies.
• Collaborates with the Architect in the creation of application and project solution architecture and roadmap.
• Determines the impacts of vendor product releases (both features and bugs).

•Lead Software Engineer - Technical Leadership (30%): Leads and guides development teams during the analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and post-production support phases.
• Mentors and develops more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills.
• Leads projects and teams through company technology processes (ATC, ADLC, etc.).
• Leverages relationships to coordinate work between different technical teams.


What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?•Ideal candidates will have: 12-15 years of relevant experience and skilled in - JAVA 8.0, J2EE, Spring and Spring Boot, SOAP and RESTful Webservice, NoSQL Database, In Memory Database with hands on in Cloud environment - preferably Azure
• Demonstrated experience with Micro service architecture using REST services with a strong knowledge of design patterns.
• Must have strong foundational knowledge and work experience on App services, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Azure Active Directory, Notification Hub, Dockers/Kubernetes.
• Experienced in enterprise integration, performance tuning and system design
• Must have exposure to using Swagger for APIs creation and Documentation
• Hands on with the Open authorization protocols and frameworks ex: OAuth2
• Good experience in JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, SCSS/SASS, RxJS, CSS and Angular Material
• Experience in Agile/Scrum based project executions

•Nice to Have: Must be familiar with Unit testing frameworks (Junit, Karma and Jasmine)
• Strong Knowledge on Maven, Gradle, CI/CD using Jenkins/Bamboo
• Knowledge on Cloud App services, Load Balancer, Application Gateway
• Hand on with Cloud services - preferably Azure
• Azure Active Directory, Notification Hub
• Experience in NoSQL Database and in-memory Database


Job Level - Individual Contributor
Work Shift Timings - 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM IST
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Our culture is shaped by our diverse global workforce and strongly held core values. Regardless of your interests, lifestyle, or background, there's a place for you at Franklin Templeton. We provide employees with the tools, resources, and learning opportunities to help them excel in their career and personal life.
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By joining us, you will become part of a culture that focuses on employee well-being and provides multidimensional support for a positive and healthy lifestyle. We understand that benefits are at the core of employee well-being and may vary depending on individual needs. Whether you need support for maintaining your physical and mental health, saving for life's adventures, taking care of your family members, or making a positive impact in your community, we aim to have them covered.•Highlights of our benefits include: Professional development growth opportunities through in-house classes and over 150 Web-based training courses
• An educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education
• Medical, Life and Personal Accident Insurance benefit for employees. Medical insurance also cover employee's dependents (spouses, children and dependent parents)
• Life insurance for protection of employees' families
• Personal accident insurance for protection of employees and their families
• Personal loan assistance
• Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP)
• 12 weeks Paternity leave
• Onsite fitness center, recreation center, and cafeteria
• Transport facility
• Child day care facility for women employees
• Cricket grounds and gymnasium
• Library
• Health Center with doctor availability
• HDFC ATM on the campus


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