Lead II

Years

1 Opening

Kochi, Trivandrum

Role Proficiency:

Provides Technology Consulting with expertise on technology drivers and trends. Independently works on the Product Architecture of assigned Product(s) in the business division.

Outcomes:

• Leads the product team from a technical/architectural perspective delivering desired services and service levels

• Enable the research and evaluation of new technology and new architecture/software designs

• Keep abreast with the latest trends and knowledge within technology space and deliver exceptional user experiences

• Drive technological innovation enabling technology refreshes and selection of alternative technologies; leveraging changing usage and trends in the industry

• Evangelize and drive change across the organization – influence leadership both within the Product teams and rest of the organization

• Drive the adoption of the architectural standards across the organization

• Ensure identification analysis and resolution of systemic technical issues

• Lead creation and delivery of proof-of-concept and near production-ready code prototypes; demonstrating new technologies or design patterns to other technology teams

• Leverage technical experience to mentor and coach team members

• Enable team collaboration working with cross-functional teams – demonstrated by working effectively with global /distributed teams building global applications

• Enable efficient employment and recruitment activities provide coaching and guidance to a team of Product Architecture professionals while promoting staff training and development

• Set OKRs and success steps for self/ team; providing feedback of goals to team members

Measures of Outcomes:

• Number of architecture debts and technical debts addressed for assigned Product/Initiative

• High code quality with near 100% code coverage for assigned Product/Initiative

• Zero showstopper issues in production environment for assigned Product/Initiatives

• Zero Severe/High/Medium vulnerabilities in the products for assigned Product/Initiatives

• Zero downtime of applications or performance issues for assigned Product/Initiatives

• Number of technical certification/ product certifications

• Number of mentoring/technical sessions delivered

• Number of ideas contributed to New Idea incubation and supported

• Number of contributions towards Architecture Systems and Reusable Assets

• Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR Assignments HIG Stretch goals)

Outputs Expected:

Research and Development:

• Understand technology trends
  
  software tools and systems

• Identify areas to explore; creating prototypes and work on proof-of-concepts

• Develop reusable components and libs to enable rapid development

• Experiment with early ideas and technology
  
  providing results of the research

Manage business to succeed in market acquisitions :

• Protect assets and mitigate risks employing IP knowledge

• Instrumental in building disruptive products using technology

Manage great people:

• Communicate with diverse groups; influencing change throughout the organization

• Prioritize
  
  delegate
  
  influence
  
  persuade
  
  and resolve

• Positive working relationships with product directors
  
  client CTOs
  
  engineering / product managers
  
  product designers and product operations/support team

• Mentor fellow engineering team members to learn and adapt to new technologies by practicing continuous learning.

Use great technology:

• Deep understanding of the utilization of technology platforms to build an echo-system for product development

• Use scrum / agile proficiency (backed up by CSPO / CSM certifications) to deliver projects

• Apply lean principles wherever applicable/possible

• Leverage CI/CD to manage build and release pipelines

Technology Consulting:

• Assess existing landscape across relevant dimensions like Business Architecture/Application Architecture/Data Architecture/Technology Architecture; identifying gaps between current state and potential target state.

• Analyse solution fitment across various dimensions like technical feasibility
  
  cost vs. benefit
  
  people dimensions plus others

• Demonstrate the value adds and get buy-in from key customer stakeholders at every stage of consulting engagement

Innovation and Thought Leadership:

• Evangelize the adoption of newer architecture paradigms and products within vertical as well as internal and external to the organization

• Promote reuse of in-house tools and accelerators across various accounts

Skill Examples:

• Thought leadership and architectural advocacy in building software applications

• Ability to partner with product managers product designers and engineering to balance technical business and customer requirements while applying a user-centric design approach

• Strong creative and problem-solving skills. learning capabilities and decision-making ability

• Capability to understand functional and non-functional requirements from specifications provided to build applications

• Sound technical knowledge in building highly scalable/available enterprise applications which cut across multiple solution designs and architecture.

• An intense interest in innovation and new solutions within the identity industry with the ability to comprehend their likely impact

• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguous business problems quickly learn new business domains and synthesize the situation applying Systems Thinking

• Detail oriented self-directed and self-motivated with a strong capacity for working successfully and flexibly with people at all levels in an organization

• Good communications skills with the ability to communicate architecture and software design proposals to a variety of internal and external groups of stakeholders

• Curiosity to learn more about new business domains and Technology Innovation

• Strong visual communication and aesthetic sensibility

• An empathetic listener who can give and receive honest thoughtful feedback

• Ability to clearly articulate architectural and software design decisions through immersive techniques and mediums

• Excellent communication presentation and organizational skills with attention to detail

Knowledge Examples:

Knowledge Examples

• Experience working with multiple programming languages database engines web/mobile technologies software and tools

• Extensive experience in applying architecture/software design principles patterns methods and tools

• Excellent knowledge of software development and testing methodologies together with change and configuration management practices in Linux based environments

• Strong working knowledge of delivering projects from end-to-end: from problem statement and conceptualization to proof-of-concept and participation in final deployment

• Good working knowledge of building product on Cloud environment (AWS Azure GCP; exposure to application development using containerized environments (Docker Kubernetes Mesos)

• Good knowledge in Data Modelling and Data Management Strategies for different data domains (In-Memory RDBMS MPP and NoSQL) utilizing current and next generation technologies to meet evolving business needs

• Managing and delivering architecture/software design needs for multiple large-scale initiatives and product development teams

• Expertise in full spectrum of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM/SDLC) process techniques and methodologies

• Experience in envisioning and designing for Products /platforms at user-focused technology companies

• Expertise in defining guidelines standards and best practices

Additional Comments:

• Serve as the technical expert and architect for SmartOps platform implementations and related integrations.
• Design and oversee the end-to-end architecture of solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and security across integrated systems.
• Lead the design and development of REST APIs, Java-based services, and event-driven solutions using Kafka.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a Technical Architect or similar leadership role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, REST API design/development, and event-driven frameworks (Kafka preferred).
• Proven experience in system integration across diverse applications, platforms, and databases.
• Solid understanding of SmartOps (or similar intelligent automation platforms), with ability to design scalable and extensible solutions.
• Experience with microservices architecture, cloud-native applications, and container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge in Cloud based systems(Azure preferred)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities to influence stakeholders and guide technical teams.

Java,Microservices,Technical Architecture

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