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In short

The Senior Java Platform Engineer in Chennai is responsible for the ownership, maintenance, and enhancement of common Java libraries, utilities, and frameworks for Mainframe Modernization. This role involves ensuring shared Java components are reliable, secure, and easily consumable by application teams.

Responsibilities

Own the lifecycle of common Java libraries, utilities, frameworks, and reusable services.
Maintain and enhance shared components while ensuring backward compatibility.
Establish and enforce standards for reusable code, library design, packaging, and consumption.
Build, package, version, and publish approved Java artifacts to Artifactory.
Manage artifact versioning, release governance, dependency tracking, and deprecation strategies.
Review, maintain, and enhance converted Java utilities and shared services.
Analyze code for maintainability, performance, reliability, operational supportability, and security.
Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, remediation planning, and validation activities.
Partner with application teams consuming shared libraries and common services.
Provide guidance on library adoption, upgrade planning, and integration best practices.
Support onboarding of new application teams to common components.
Maintain build pipelines and automated validation processes for shared components.
Implement and support automated testing, code quality analysis, and security scanning.
Ensure artifacts meet enterprise quality, security, and compliance standards.
Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and release notes.
Establish change management and regression testing processes for shared components.
Help define the long-term ownership and support model for common code assets.

Requirements

Strong hands-on Java development experience, including design, development, troubleshooting, refactoring, and production support.
Experience maintaining enterprise Java frameworks, reusable libraries, and shared platform components.
Strong understanding of Maven, Gradle, dependency management, and artifact lifecycle management.
Experience with Artifactory or similar enterprise artifact repositories.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code quality controls, and release management.
Experience with GitHub, source control management, branching strategies, and pull request processes.
Familiarity with legacy modernization, mainframe-to-Java migration, code conversion, or re-platforming initiatives.
Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL; DB2 LUW experience preferred.
Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
Ability to work across multiple application teams and manage shared-code dependencies.
Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Desired Qualifications

The role focuses on ensuring shared Java components are reliable, maintainable, secure, versioned appropriately, and consumable by application teams.
The engineer will work closely with application development teams, platform engineering, architecture, testing teams, and business SMEs to support the long-term operational ownership of common code ecosystem.

Benefits

Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.

Skills

JavaMavenGradleArtifactoryCI/CDGitHubSQLDB2

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