Associate Technical Architect - IT Firm

Profile Description :

This person's key responsibility is to build the next generation of BiG Data analytical platform integrating multiple very large-scale data sources.

Key Responsibilities :

- Understand the business of Ugam and client needs in specific

- 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

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

- 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

- 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.

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

- Help recruit technical leads and developers into the organization

- 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.

- Adhere to procedures like communication protocols, operational practices / procedures, Information security practices, attendance procedures, etc.

- Participate and actively contribute in review meetings.

- Buddy up with junior members of the team and up-skill them 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

Requirements :

Location : Bangalore

Qualification : Graduate / Post-Graduate in Computer Science, or equivalent

Relevant Experience : 9 to 12 years of experience in software development

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

- Experience in Agile/ Iterative development projects

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

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

Technical Domain : Mastery in Java programming

- 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.

- 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)

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