Chief Technology Officer

Profile Brief:

A well-known company is building the next generation of BiG Data analytical platform integrating multiple very large-scale data sources. You will have a chance to contribute to cutting-edge research on the next generation of BiG Data technologies. We are looking for a smart, enthusiastic and a visionary leader with entrepreneurial skills to solve challenges in a creative and innovative manner. Current team size is 80+ based in Bangalore and Mumbai.

Job Description:

- Understand the functional, and non-functional, requirements and help define technical specifications for modular development

- Interact with customers, partners and vendors as and when required

- Working with designers, business analysts and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment.

- Involved in research, system design, prototyping, development, testing, benchmarking and coordination across teams

- Responsible for right design and development of multi-tiered, distributed architecture, scalable applications

- Technical assessment (e.g. platforms, tool proliferation, age of underlying technologies, uptime/availability, business processes)

- Designs complex systems at the component level and directly supervises the quality of designs and implementation within and between components

- Support and create a standard Framework for development projects and a common library of re-usable components.

- Participate in critical analysis of test results and deliver solutions to problem areas.

- Stay updated on the latest trends/ technologies for cloud enablement and evaluate platform capabilities vis-a-vis the trends; plan the roadmap to incorporate the required functionality

- Provides guidance to project teams regarding architecture principles and standards, technology tools, system and application design, coding and design standards, best practices, and system performance and availability.

- Help recruit technical leads and developers into the organization

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular and deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.

Work Experience:

- 15+ years of software development experience

Technical Skills:

- Extensive experience with object-oriented software development methodologies and practices.

- Mastery in Java programming

- Experience in Agile/ Iterative development projects

- Expertise in the following:

OOAD/OOPS/UML, Design Patterns, MVC, Spring, Hibernate, Java, J2EE

Exposure to JSP, JSF, Java Script Library such as jQuery, Ajax and UI frameworks

Exposure to component model design, SOA, open source framework/tools

Web Services, JSON, JMS, XML, SQL

Exposure to Test Driven Development/Re-factoring ideas/Domain driven design patterns/Continuous Integration/Build Automation/Data-Mapper framework/Mocks

Background in implementing n-tier, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and MVP/MVC architecture.

- Experience with a range of big data architectures, such as OpenStack, Hadoop, Pig, Hive or other big data frameworks

- Broad understanding and experience of real-time analytics, NoSQL data stores, data modeling, data management and analytical tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout)

- Must have Architected and Delivered at least one Enterprise Class Application End to End

- Well versed with tools for: Development, Refactoring, Unit Testing, Design, Data Modeling, Profiling, Benchmarking

Required Competencies:

- Strong comprehension, analytical and problem solving skills

- Ability to mentor and guide team members effectively

- Ability to handle ambiguity and make decisions through balanced trade-off assessments around speed, cost, features and business criticality

Educational Qualification:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent