Job Summary
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ROLE |
BAND |
TECH STACK |
EXPERIENCE |
TYPE |
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COTS Lead |
E2.2 |
COTS |
10+ Years |
Full-time |
Role Purpose
Lead the design, development and delivery of COTS solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production.
Key Responsibilities
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Technical Design & Delivery • Own detailed design for COTS components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture. • Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria. • Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team. • Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations. Team Leadership • Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach. • Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing. • Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the COTS skill set. |
Quality & Operations • Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team. • Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps. • Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds. Collaboration & Governance • Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle. • Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management. • Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team. |
Key Responsibilities
Technology Focus — COTS Platform
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• Lead configuration, extension and integration of the COTS platform in line with product best practice. • Drive fit-gap assessments and minimize custom code to protect upgradeability and total cost of ownership. |
• Manage vendor engagement for defects, roadmap alignment, patches and version upgrades. |
Required Technical Competencies
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Core Skills |
COTS product configuration, extension frameworks, upgrade paths and vendor solution capabilities. |
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Design & Architecture |
Fit-gap analysis, configuration-over-customization principles, extension design and integration architecture. |
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Data & Integration |
Product data models, migration and conversion, interface specifications, reporting and reconciliation. |
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Platform & DevOps |
Vendor release management, environment strategy, patching, licensing and deployment automation. |
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Quality & Operations |
Functional, regression and upgrade testing; defect management with vendor support and production readiness. |
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Experience & Qualifications • 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong COTS expertise. • Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. • Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory.
Leadership & Behavioural • Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes. • Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions. • Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. • Coaching mindset and collaborative working style. |
Location-Specific Expectations • Work from the Curitiba delivery location with local customer stakeholders and global teams. • Participate in on-site and virtual workshops, design reviews and governance forums. • Effective communication in a multi-country model, with overlap into European and Indian working hours.
Key Deliverables & Success Measures • Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads. • High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines. • Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover. • Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets. • Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers. |