Role summary Design, build and maintain secure, scalable applications and databases behind the Cell's citizen-service, monitoring and integration platforms. The role covers hands-on development, database architecture and mentoring junior developers. Key responsibilities • Design normalised, high-performance database schemas; write and optimise complex queries, stored procedures, functions and triggers • Develop responsive front-end and robust back-end modules and REST APIs for citizen and departmental applications • Integrate with State and national platforms (Raj SSO, Jan Aadhaar, e-Mitra, DigiLocker, payment gateways, SMS/email gateways, UIDAI-compliant flows) using secure APIs • Manage database performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, backup/recovery, replication and migration • Implement authentication, role-based access control, audit logging, encryption and other security controls in line with CERT-In, OWASP and MeitY guidelines • Participate in architecture and code reviews, and enforce coding standards, unit/integration testing and CI/CD practices • Support deployment, UAT, production issues and root-cause analysis on State Data Centre / MeitY-empanelled cloud environments • Prepare technical documentation (SRS inputs, data models, API specs) and mentor junior team members