Technical Delivery Manager/ Technical Architect

Role: Technical Delivery Manager/ Technical Architect - UI

Experience: 12+ Yrs

Work Location: Gurugram / Noida / Hyderabad / Bangalore / Pune

Skills: Delivery Management, Agile, , , Microservices, NoSQL, React, Redux, JavaScript, Pre-sales

Role & responsibilities

• Be the primary spokesperson for the solutions/ applications being developed and liaison with the customer, providing capability demonstration.
• Lead the proposals of assigned clients - presentations, scoping, estimating efforts etc.
• Create SOWs with milestone plans, key deliverables, assumptions, commercials, and dependencies etc. and other such contractual artefacts.
• Collaborate and develop eCommerce strategy that encompasses the goals of a client.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance for Frontend web applications.
• Take complete ownership and ensure to deliver assigned projects on schedule with quality.
• Establish strong relationships with client .
• Manage change request and scope creep.
• Monitor project baseline to ensure activities progressing as planned.
• Manage P&L for projects ensuring margins and client SLAs are consistently met.
• Create and implement strategy to mitigate shortfalls in timeline and budget.
• Participate in key Sprint activities like Sprint Planning, Retrospectives and other key ceremonies.
• Oversee daily activities of delivery team and provide direction & guidance as needed.
• Guide the team in requirement closures, design, development and verification/validation tasks.
• Identify productivity and quality process improvements and incorporate as needed.
• Make critical business decision to meet client expectation.
• Ensure that team maintains high level of competence and operational excellence.
• Publish status reports with metrics to internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with SMEs(Architects, Development leads) to define best practices and benchmarks.
• Proactively identify risks and issues on programs/projects and develop mitigation plans.
• Account mining - Identify new service opportunities with clients and support sales team to close the deals effectively.
• Thought leadership - identify business problems and come up with ideas to build solutions & frameworks to offer to various clients and monetize.
• Generate and execute onboarding, trainings, KT and skill building plans.
• Assist in hiring right talent to organization.
• Motivate and mentor team members.
• Employee engagement - handle appraisals & retention.
• Ensure case studies are created & published and walkthrough to internal stakeholders.
• Encourage and guide team members to write white papers, blogs.

Preferred candidate profile

• 12+ years of IT experience in UI technologies / frameworks like Angular, React JS, NodeJS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Vue.JS, Bootstrap etc.
• At least 5 years of end-to-end solutioning and delivery management experience.
• Proven track record of developing and managing omni-channel (mobile , tablet, web etc.) applications using responsive design and cross browser applications.
• Experience / good understanding of developing UI for AEM & SFCC (Demandware) platforms
• Good experience in developing of AWS Lambda functions.
• Hands on experience in REST services.
• Excellent understanding of industry proven design patterns and a problem solver.
• Experience in configuring and performance improvement of UI applications.
• Strong background of delivering projects with first time right and Zero defects in production.
• Should have client facing experience and having worked in cross functional matrix organization. Need to work closely with client stakeholders, offshore development team, Senior Management and multiple onsite teams.
• Experience in pre-sales working on RFP / RFI.
• Experience in using estimation techniques like (Use case, FP, Story points).
• Experience in making presentations, demos to customers and internal management team.
• Successful experience in building teams, goal setting, coaching, & developing individuals to achieve targeted results.
• Experience in managing around 50+ resources in a single account or multiple accounts or UI portfolio/ practice.
• Should have experience in driving org initiatives like creating case studies, writing white papers, blogs.
• Experience in using version control and CI / CD tools like SVN, GIT, Jenkins, Cucumber, Hudson is mandatory.
• Experience publishing program/portfolio metrics to the management team.
• Good understanding of B2B and B2C eCommerce.
• Experience in Agile execution methodology is mandatory.
• Should have excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.