About the Opportunity

Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 01 July 2026

Title Senior Analyst Programmer

Department FIL India Technology - Retail Technology

Location Gurugram , India

Were proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our team and feel like youre part of something bigger.

About your team

You'll be joining the Sonata Product Development team, which focuses on enhancing our platform capabilities to support our growing direct and intermediated businesses in the region.

About your role

This role is for an experienced Java Full Stack Developer to work within the Sonata Product Development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for gaining deep knowledge of Sonata services, contributing to solution architecture, and making key design decisions for ongoing strategic initiatives.

The role requires strong expertise in Java-based application development, a solid understanding of relational databases and SQL, and the ability to technically guide and mentor the development team. The candidate should be comfortable working across the full stack, collaborating with frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to deliver scalable and high-quality solutions.

As part of this role, the candidate may be required to support and resolve critical production issues, placing them in a front-line position with significant interaction with business stakeholders. This demands a high level of ownership, flexibility, and the ability to perform effectively under pressure.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential to clearly and confidently interact with business users, product owners, and technical teams at all levels of the organization.

The role requires close working with colleagues in the UK offices, and as such the candidate may be required to work UK business hours sometimes. On occasions the candidate may also be required to work extended hours/weekends to cover changes and release implementations, for example. This demanding role would perfectly suit a dynamic individual looking to work in a fast-paced environment to ensure the smooth running of business critical systems.

About You

Key Responsibilities

Work with delivery architects to review the best solution to problems

Ensure development quality standards are met

Own and deliver technically sound solutions for the assigned project (s)

Provide regular updates and reporting to project managers

Highlight risks and issues in a prompt and timely manner and give clear and concise details of resolutions

Interact with customers to understand their problems, provide solutions or workarounds

Produce technical documentation to assist team members

Ownership of problems from first notification through to resolution

Ensure performance of Sonata platform is optimised

Impact Analysis for any changes required

Identify problem areas and escalate where necessary

Essential Skills / Experience

Strong hands-on experience in Java (Core Java, Spring / Spring Boot, RESTful services)

Extensive experience with React.js for building scalable, responsive web applications
Solid understanding of frontend technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), Redux, REST APIs
Hands-on experience in writing complex SQL queries, query optimization, indexing, and database tuning
Strong experience with relational databases (Oracle / PostgreSQL / MySQL) and data modeling concepts
Exposure to DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, build and release automation

Hands-on experience integrating Generative AI / LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, etc.) into fullstack applications using APIs
Understanding of prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) patterns
Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) and cloud-native services
Experience using source code management tools such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab
Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation preferred)
Understanding of microservices architecture, API gateways, and service-to-service communication
Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra) and big data concepts
Strong diagnostic, debugging, and problem-solving skills across the full stack
Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code, with unit and integration testing experience
Good understanding of application security, authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT)
Ability to work under pressure, manage priorities, and meet tight deadlines
Ability to think laterally with an enquiring mind and strong analytical skills
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams
Flexible attitude with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment

Desirable Skills / Experience

Good knowledge of UNIX, Python, Shell Scripting, u-deploy (or similar) and experience of continuous integration

Large scale software product engineering experience with contemporary tools and delivery methods in a complex environment, i.e. Agile/SAFe, Test Modernization, CI/CD, Cloud Solutions, and DevOps practices.

End to end understanding of distribution data and its lifecycle

Exposure to the Finance/Mutual Fund industry would be an advantage

Expose to big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka

Location: Gurgaon Office

Time Type: Full time