Description

Required Hard and Soft Skills / Experience

· Deep Expertise in PySpark, including performance tuning and optimization

· Strong python development experience in large-scale distributed environment

· Solid knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS,Hive/Impala, YARN)

· Proven experience designing and governing enterprise, regulatory facing data platforms.

· Expertise in designing data lakes, ELT/ETL pipelines, batch and real time data processing solution

· Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Scala and SQL

· Strong understanding of non-functional requirements and production support models

· Clear written and verbal communication skills with ability to influence across organizations 

· Preferred Skills / Experience 

· Financial services experience, particularly in Market Surveillance, AML, Fraud, Or Risk Technology 

· Experience supporting regulatory or audit facing platforms 

· Kafka and Spark Structured streaming exposure 

· Familiarity with Orchestration tools(Airflow,Control-M,Oozie) 

· Knowledge of data governance, lineage, and data quality controls 

· Daily Responsibilities/Priorities 

· Enterprise & Surveillance Architecture 

· Define target state architecture and strategic roadmap for surveillance data processing platforms leveraging Hadoop,Spark, Pyspark and Python 

· Establish standard architectural patterns for alert generation, enrichment, aggregation and reporting pipelines. 

· Ensure architecture aligns with enterprise technology standards and Surveillance control expectation 

· Solution Design and Delivery Support 

· Translate surveillance business requirements(e.g, market misconduct detection, regulatory coverage) into scalable technical designs 

· Review and approve detailed technical designs, ensuring alignment with functional intent, regulatory requirements, and architectural standards. 

· Provide hands-on architectural guidance to engineering teams during development, testing and implementation 

· Design and standardization of Spark/Pyspark frameworks supporting surveillance alert generation and enrichment 

· Modernization and Optimization of large-scale Hadoop surveillance workloads to improve performance, stability and control coverage 

· Implementation of enterprise-consistent architecture patterns enabling audit readiness, lineage, and regulatory traceability 

· Support end-to-end delivery across the SDLC, minimizing rework and technical debt 

· Architecture Governance & Leadership 

· Participate in and lead architecture review forums and design walkthroughs 

· Mentor senior engineers and promote adoption of Standard framework and best practices 

· Influence enterprise surveillance platform strategy through architecture governance 

· Documentation & Communication 

· Maintain high-quality documentation, including business requirement, data definitions and process flows 

· Proactively communicate risks, dependencies and potential timeline impact to stakeholders 

· Non-Functional requirement and product Readiness

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees