Lead Software Engineer

About the role

The Lead Software Engineer – Data Management Service – Change Management role sits within SimCorp’s DMS Change team, part of the SimCorp Managed Business Services Team. You will own the technical direction for the customer layer of the Data Management Platform (a single-instance SaaS product), drive design and architecture decisions, and lead a group of developers building, testing, and ensuring compatibility with broader enterprise and solutions architecture. Day-to-day work includes mentoring developers, setting technical standards, driving new capabilities for Data Management Service Business Operations, aligning delivery across multiple service stacks, and leading RCA and retrospectives. The role is based in Noida and follows a hybrid work model.

What you’ll do

• Own the technical design and architecture for assigned areas of the platform, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DMS Change developers — providing technical guidance, conducting design/code reviews, and setting engineering best practices.
• Grasp the concepts of the system via design documents and drive the team to speed on ongoing SaaS efforts; act as the technical escalation point for the team.
• Support and guide Data Advisory, DMS Operations and QA team members in understanding platform capabilities and constraints, acting as the primary technical point of contact across multiple stacks.
• Communicate priorities, negotiate trade-offs, and align work items assigned to the team with business and program objectives.
• Drive advanced debugging and root-cause analysis to resolve complex issues in SIT, UAT and PROD environments, and coach others in doing the same.
• Champion the creation of tools and automation that reduce effort and time spent on repeated activities, and showcase these to a wider audience across teams.
• Own the team's testing strategy in partnership with QA — ensuring strong test coverage, promoting TDD/BDD practices, and supporting testers on technical queries.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of experience using .NET technologies with an emphasis on C#, Microsoft .NET Framework including WPF, WWF, and WCF.
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring a team of developers, including code/design reviews and technical decision-making.
• Experience with multi-threaded / performance intensive applications.
• Deep understanding and experience with Object-Oriented design and development.
• Strong Analysis, Design, and Development skills with the ability to set technical direction for others.
• Familiarity with source control systems (Git/TFS) and continuous build/CI practices.
• Strong experience in RDBMS (Oracle/MSSQL).
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to represent the team in cross-functional and stakeholder discussions.

Nice to have

• Solid knowledge of Web API, .NET Core, Microservices, Docker, or container-based applications.
• Experience with cloud-based applications.
• Experience driving Agile methodologies within a team.
• Working knowledge of TDD/BDD, with experience championing adoption across a team.
• Experience in the Capital Markets domain is a plus — preferably with buy-side firms.
• AI Certifications.
• Experience working with Reference Data Management setup and understanding of various asset classes (Equity, Derivatives, and Fixed Income, etc.) and Market data feeds (Reuters, Bloomberg, MarkIT, etc.
• Prior formal people-management or team-lead experience.

Skills

Benefits

• Global hybrid work policy - work 2 days a week from the office, with the option to work remotely the other days.
• Growth and innovation - every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation to explore and learn new skills or improve something beneficial.
• Self-Direction - high degree of self-organization with freedom to plan, organize and design work.
• Work-life balance and empowerment, with involvement in shaping work processes.