Knoldus - Technical Architect - Scala/Big Data (8-13 Yrs) Noida (Systems/Product Software)

About knoldus : Knoldus is a new age startup which is trying to disrupt the Reactive Software Development, Analytics, Machine Learning and Fast Data space. Locations : Knoldus is incorporated in India, Singapore, US and Canada and is 100 people overall. Wondering who we are? We are the only company which has the distinction of being Select partners with : - Lightbend (Scala ecosystem) - Databricks (Spark in the Big Data space) - Confluent (Kafka ecosystem) - Datastax (Cassandra and Graph ecosystem) We started working on the Scala ecosystem and Spark in 2009 and have gained an industry reputation of being a go to company for Reactive and Fast Data product development. Some of our marquee clients include Google, HPE, EY, Elsevier, BoA, Cisco, VMWare, Huawei, Philips and quite a few silicon valley startups which have gone from being 2 people companies to 50 million dollars companies. Our process focus : - Strongly Agile and NO to CMM - Knoldus software development model called Knolway is based upon the best Agile practices built on the combination of Scrum and XP where concepts such as Domain Driven Design, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development and Pair Programming are used extensively. What do we offer? - Opportunity to work with top-notch people who are authors, write blogs, contribute to open source community, speak at conferences.
-Various social events organized by Knoldus (eg. Community events and conferences with the Industry leaders) - Flat organization no hierarchies.
-Official time for doing your own professional growth which includes open source projects, blogging, pod-casting and technical article publishing. Visit Weekly knowledge sharing program. See Cubicle free workspace, relaxed and fun-filled work atmosphere.
-Learn more about us: Skills : - Battle scars from building reliable web-scale systems - Passion for building products used by hundreds of millions worldwide.
-Experience building large scale, high performance distributed systems.
-Excellent programming skills in Scala.
-Experience with Storm, Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, Neo4j.
-Experience with high availability systems.
-Blogger, Conference Speaker, Open Source Contributor. KRA : Customer Management : - Manage client requests and expectations; coordinate with the client engineering team - Assist Onsite Coordinator to Set/ negotiate expectations - Understand (implicit and explicit) customer feedback and adopt in the subsequent deliveries Project Management : - Primarily responsible for successful completion of the project on time, on budget, specification with an objective to delight and satisfy customers - Performing basic project management activities such as planning, budgeting, resource allocation, high utilization, estimation etc - Providing technical vision for project(s) - Primary responsibility for project execution, meeting timelines, achieving planned milestones, ensuring quality of deliverables sent to client, project monitoring control, and project closure - Engage client in all project life cycle activities for quality delivery and reducing risk - Ensure project documentation is in place, complete, and of good quality and kept in versioning tool.
-Supervise and manage project development effort estimation and precisely calculate project size.
-Set architectural and design Guidelines and Checklist - Manage customization, integration and QA activities - Supervise, schedule and allocate tasks, integrate, review and produce status reports Issue Risk Management : - Anticipate risks at customers end and mitigate early - Understand political competitive threats and strategize to respond to them - Issue escalation and resolution Team Management : - Ensure that the team works in proper coordination and in sync with the plans - anticipate personal or professional issues and help sort them out - Supervise and help the Project lead/ team members working with analysts on the feasibility and workability of a conceptual design by taking high-level functional / technical specifications prepared by the analyst and designing system components to meet the stated need.
-Also supervise the preparation of functional / technical specifications.
-Mentor team members to match with the Project expectation. Organizational activities : - Help in Building future capabilities for the company - both with regard to technology development and managerial talent - in line with the companys overall long term strategy.
-Communicate company plans and future strategy to the team members with discretion, with the aim of keeping them involved and informed.
-Liaison with other Project managers/project leads to help solve technical issues at a quick pace and provide for re-use of components/functionalities wherever possible. Establishing, updating and sharing good practices and processes for...

Required Skills : English