Position Description:

Company Profile:
We’re Hiring at CGI for our GCC - Right Here in Hyderabad!
Join us at the intersection of technology, finance, and innovation. You will be working to support the PNC Financial Services Group, one of the top-tier financial institutions in the U.S. You’ll help shape digital solutions for a global enterprise—from the ground up.
This is more than a job. It’s your opportunity to:
• Work on cutting-edge technologies
• Collaborate with global teams
• Build a career with purpose and impact
Ready to build the future of banking? Let’s talk.

Job Title:Lead Analyst
Position: Java Developer
Experience:8-10 Years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift: General
Main location: India, Telangana, Hyderabad
Position ID: J0225-1964
Employment Type: Full Time

CGI is looking for a talented and motivated Java developer - The developer is one of the most critical roles on the Data Streaming Platform team. The ability to build java applications for data pipelines using Kafka, and Oracle is essential to the platform. Here are some skills required:
• Core Java Skills*
o Strong understanding of Java
• Apache Kafka Basics*
o Understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, partitions, topics, producers, consumers) (High level)
o Experience with Kafka Producers and Consumers using the Kafka Java client
o Knowledge of Kafka topic configurations (retention, replication, partitioning) (High level)
o Understanding of the Kafka Streams
• Distributed Processing Concepts (Just a high level)
o Familiarity with event-driven architecture
o Knowledge of exactly-once processing vs at-least-once processing
o Understanding of stream-table duality (Kafka Streams vs. KTables)
o Schema Management
o Experience with Avro, Protobuf, or JSON for structured messages
• Integration with External Systems
o Connecting Kafka Streams with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
o Using Kafka Connect for external data integration
o Knowledge of REST APIs and how to expose data from Kafka Streams
• DevOps and Deployment*
o Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployment
o Using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
o Logging and tracing using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or OpenTelemetry (High level understanding)
• Testing Kafka Streams Applications
o Writing unit tests with Mockito and JUnit
o Using TestContainers for integration testing with Kafka
o Validating Kafka Streams topologies using TopologyTestDriver
• API developers:
o Experience building REST APIs using Spring Boot
o Experience with Spring Data/Spring Data JPA for connecting to and reading from databases via APIs
o Experience writing unit tests using JUnit/Spock
o Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
o Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases

• Nice-to-have Skills:
o Monitoring and Optimization
o Understanding of Kafka Streams metrics (through JMX, Grafana, Prometheus)
o Profiling performance and tuning configurations (buffer sizes, commit intervals)
o Handling out-of-order events and rebalancing issues
o Knowledge of Apache Flink or KSQLDB for alternative stream processing
o Knowledge of Docker, OpenShift
o Experience with tools like Dynatrace for troubleshooting

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize Oracle relational databases tables, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexes, and execution plans for efficient data processing.
• Develop ETL pipelines and PL/SQL to transform and integrate data from multiple sources.
• Implement job scheduling, store procedure, data validation, and monitoring solutions.
• Work closely with data architecture, DA teams, and application developers to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Strong in creating logical and physical data model for RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.
• Strong expertise in PL/SQL, SQL tuning, stored procedures, and triggers.
• Knowledge of data modeling, data lakes, and warehousing.
• Familiarity with Python, shell scripting for transformation and automation.
• Experience with Big Data & NoSQL technologies (e.g: MongoDB, Kafka, Hadoop).
• Nice to have: Experience with BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network)

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Core Java Skills*
o Strong understanding of Java
• Apache Kafka Basics*
o Understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, partitions, topics, producers, consumers) (High level)
o Experience with Kafka Producers and Consumers using the Kafka Java client
o Knowledge of Kafka topic configurations (retention, replication, partitioning) (High level)
o Understanding of the Kafka Streams
• Distributed Processing Concepts (Just a high level)
o Familiarity with event-driven architecture
o Knowledge of exactly-once processing vs at-least-once processing
o Understanding of stream-table duality (Kafka Streams vs. KTables)
o Schema Management
o Experience with Avro, Protobuf, or JSON for structured messages
• Integration with External Systems
o Connecting Kafka Streams with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
o Using Kafka Connect for external data integration
o Knowledge of REST APIs and how to expose data from Kafka Streams
• DevOps and Deployment*
o Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployment
o Using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
o Logging and tracing using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or OpenTelemetry (High level understanding)
• Testing Kafka Streams Applications
o Writing unit tests with Mockito and JUnit
o Using TestContainers for integration testing with Kafka
o Validating Kafka Streams topologies using TopologyTestDriver
• API developers:
o Experience building REST APIs using Spring Boot
o Experience with Spring Data/Spring Data JPA for connecting to and reading from databases via APIs
o Experience writing unit tests using JUnit/Spock
o Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
o Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases

Skills: AngularEnglishJavaMicroservicesAnalytical Thinking What you can expect from us:

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You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

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