Lead Associate - Outsystems

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical design, development and maintenance of scalable applications on the OutSystems platform.
• Lead the transition and long-term technical ownership of products and related insurance applications.
• Translate business and non-functional requirements into secure, maintainable solution designs, data models, business processes and user experiences.
• Design and govern integrations with internal and external systems using REST APIs and appropriate authentication mechanisms.
• Provide technical direction, estimation and delivery oversight across the development lifecycle.
• Set coding standards, conduct code and design reviews, and mentor developers to improve engineering quality and capability.
• Diagnose production issues, improve application performance and resilience, and ensure effective root-cause analysis.
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, QA and operational teams to manage dependencies, risks and delivery priorities.
• Lead knowledge-transfer activities, strengthen documentation and reduce reliance on external vendors and subject-matter experts.
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, testing, release and change-management standards.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies, release planning and continuous improvement of engineering practices.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Total experience: 8–12 years in software development, including substantial experience delivering enterprise applications.
• Relevant experience: 5+ years of hands-on OutSystems development, with recent experience leading technical design, delivery or mentoring.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• OutSystems Professional Developer or Tech Lead certification.
• Experience with insurance, claims or underwriting platforms and workflows.
• Experience integrating OutSystems applications with Azure services, enterprise identity, monitoring and deployment tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices and automated quality controls.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale, business-critical applications.
• Familiarity with observability, application monitoring and performance optimisation.
• Strong experience with OutSystems 11, exposure to OutSystems Developer Cloud is desirable.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including the ability to troubleshoot custom extensions and front-end performance issues.

• 8+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years recent hands-on OutSystems development.
• Strong hands-on experience with OutSystems Service Studio, Service Center and LifeTime, including deployment, environment management, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and supporting REST and SOAP integrations, including authentication, error handling, retries, logging and integration troubleshooting.
• Demonstrable experience leading technical design and delivery for complex enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of modular OutSystems architecture, reusable services and components, dependency management, application layering and technical-debt remediation.
• Working SQL, relational data modelling and database optimisation skills.
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, enterprise integrations, authentication and authorisation.
• Sound understanding of secure development, application security and non-functional requirements.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery, estimation, release planning and production support.
• Ability to conduct code reviews, establish engineering standards and mentor developers.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills.

• Complete the agreed product-ownership transition with clear technical documentation, effective knowledge transfer and minimal disruption.
• Deliver secure, maintainable enhancements and defect resolutions that meet agreed quality and release standards.
• Improve application reliability, performance and supportability through proactive engineering and root-cause remediation.
• Build strong functional and technical expertise in insurance workflows across the internal engineering team.
• Reduce dependency on external vendors and subject-matter experts through mentoring, documentation and reusable engineering practices.
• Provide clear technical leadership that improves design consistency, code quality and delivery predictability.