The Senior Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership across complex, businesscritical systems. This role leads design, development, and delivery of scalable, highperformance applications while mentoring engineering teams and enforcing engineering best practices.
Responsibilities
Serve as the technical lead for major development initiatives, ensuring architecture, code quality, and solution integrity.
Design and implement highly performant data and application components leveraging deep Snowflake expertise, including performance tuning, cost optimization, and secure data sharing patterns.
Collaborate with architecture, product, and business partners to translate requirements into technical solutions aligned to FIS standards.
Drive engineering excellence: code reviews, CI/CD maturity, automated testing, observability, and operational readiness.
Diagnose complex issues across distributed systems and provide guidance for long-term resolution.
Mentor engineers, providing technical coaching and elevating overall team capability.
Qualifications
Proven experience as a lead or senior engineer in enterprise-scale environments.
Expert-level Snowflake experience including architecture, SQL performance tuning, resource optimization, and integration with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
Strong experience with distributed systems, modern development frameworks, and DevOps practices.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive outcomes across multiple workstreams.
Zensar stands out as a premier technology consulting and services company, embracing an ‘experience-led everything’ philosophy. We are creators, thinkers, and problem solvers passionate about designing digital experiences that are engineered into scale-ready products, services, and solutions to deliver superior engagement to high-growth companies. This full lifecycle capability – from experience to engineering to engagement – is what makes us unique. This integrated approach also means that we harness the power of technology, creativity, and insight to deliver impact — ensuring our work focuses not just on technology but also on the people who use it.
Part of the $4.4 billion RPG Group, Zensar is headquartered in Pune, India. Our 10,000+ employees work across 30+ locations worldwide, including Seattle, Princeton, Cape Town, London, Singapore, and Mexico City. As an organization, we are diverse and multi-dimensional and unite across geographies and skill sets to deliver products and services that are value-driven, environmentally conscious, and human-centered.
To know more, visit us at www.zensar.com.
