Iris Software - Senior Technical Project Manager

- Contribute in presales activities as a technology/ engineering subject matter expert i.e. high level solution definition, sizing and RFI/RFP responses

- Responsible for recommending technology stack, helping team in definition of solution, technology and integration architectures for small to mid-sized applications and cloud hosted platforms

- Participate in effort estimation using different techniques; will actively support project managers and scrum masters on planning the implementation and will work with test leads on the definition of an appropriate test strategy for the realisation of a quality solution

- Should have executed one cloud project end-to-end in the past

- Help teams understand functional and non-functional requirements and translate them to technical specifications

- Mentor and groom team members to develop a mindset of Test First approach for every Feature and Story

- Develop team members to value the importance of writing clean code

- Train technical leads, developers and automation testers on coding best practices and code refactoring

- Implement and govern software engineering processes, practices, tools and standards for development teams

- Engage with customer on technical discussions

Skills:

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills and presentation skills.

- Strong understanding of SOLID principles, various design and architecture patterns

- Strong exposure to technology frameworks and micro-services, APIs, REST webservices, leveraging Java and open source technology stack (i.e. Java, Javascript, Node.js/ Angular.js/ React.js, Spring Boot, Non-blocking Java, etc)

- Strong design, development and performance tuning skills on atleast two or more databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, NOSQL and NewSQL (e.g. PostgresQL, Cassandra, Mongo DB, Cosmos DB, MySQL etc.).

- Experience of DevOps and automation infrastructure for continuous integration and delivery using tools like GIT, Jenkins, Bamboo, Maven, XL Deploy etc.

- Experience in Testing Frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Selenium, Jasmine, Karma etc.

- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Dockers, PCF etc.

- Experience in enterprise search engines like Lucene, SOLR, Elastic etc.

- Familiarity on open source software like Rabbit MQ and Kafka

- Full SDLC experience leveraging Agile, TDD and BDD for building and rolling out highly transactional and highly available platforms hosted on-premise and on the cloud

- Must have been in a "hands on" technology role and able to guide team to troubleshoot critical issues in design or code

- Awareness on latest technology trends, engineering processes, practices and metrics

- Should have a product/platform engineering background

- Strong business domain understanding in financial services, preferably capital markets i.e. fixed income trading, wealth management and risk

- Must be a thought leader in one or more areas of technology