Technical Lead

Job Description

Technical Lead

Location: Chennai

Experience: 12+ years (with at least 3 years in technical leadership roles)

Role Summary

As a Technical Lead, you will own end-to-end technical delivery for fleet- and vessel-level solutions in the maritime domain. This role combines architectural leadership with hands-on engineering across React, Python, AWS, Snowflake, and Kafka, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions. You will lead a team, collaborate with domain experts, and drive innovation in real-time telemetry, data platforms, and model operationalization.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for frontend, backend, data pipelines, and edge gateway patterns.
• Lead development of React UI, Python services, streaming/batch pipelines, and Snowflake analytics; deploy on AWS.
• Design telemetry ingestion and transformation ensuring schema integrity and provenance.
• Implement Kafka-based streaming for alerts and event-driven workflows.
• Productionize physics and ML models with monitoring and drift detection.
• Guide React UI for dashboards and operator workflows ensuring performance.
• Design Snowflake schemas, secure access, and analytics jobs for KPIs.
• Implement observability, retries, encryption, and RBAC for reliability and security.
• Enforce automated testing and manage staging/canary releases.
• Mentor engineers, run code reviews, and promote best practices.
• Translate domain needs into technical deliverables and drive sprint planning.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering; 3+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Strong React expertise and Python backend experience (FastAPI/Flask).
• Hands-on AWS (EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, IAM) and containerized deployments.
• Practical Kafka experience and streaming pipeline design.
• Strong Snowflake/data warehouse skills and ETL patterns.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and observability stacks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.

Preferred Skills

• Maritime, shipping, or IIoT/digital twin experience.
• Familiarity with time-series DBs, model-serving platforms, and stream processors.
• Knowledge of ship telemetry and naval concepts.

What You’ll Love About Working Here

• Flexible work options and strong work-life balance.
• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge maritime digital solutions.
• Continuous learning and certifications in cloud, AI, and streaming tech.
• Inclusive and collaborative culture fostering innovation.

About Us

Capgemini is a global leader in business and technology transformation, helping organizations accelerate digital innovation. With 360,000 team members across 50+ countries, we deliver strategy, design, and operations powered by cloud, data, and AI. Our purpose: Unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future.