PS International Infoservices

Position : Database Programmer:

Job Description / Required Skills

• Strong experience in Database design for complex web and mobile application, including writing complex store procedures, function, triggers and ad-hoc queries.
• Hands-on development experience with T-SQL.
• Strong experience on Database designing, normalization, optimization and performance tuning.
• Experience in advanced SQL programming, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience in security, troubleshooting and optimizing the performance of databases and stored procedures.
• Experience in Refactoring/troubleshooting existing databases as needed.
• Deep understanding of referential integrity and indexing.
• Assisting with production database issues and helping to troubleshoot and isolate the root cause of issues and provide issue resolution by interacting with Developers.
• Ability to estimate development tasks accurately and meet agreed upon deadlines.
• Understanding of code promotion, version control and QA procedures.
• Good Communication skills.

Technical Skills:

• MySql, MS-SQL, SQL Server Management Studio and SQL Server Profiler.
• PostgreSQL
• DCL, DDL, DML Scripts.
• T-SQL, SSRS and SSIS
• OS Environments: Windows XP/Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008

Experience         :               3 to 4 years

Qualification       :               B. Tech/BE/MCA/MSC Computers

Location               :               Mumbai

The Role

The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring all projects are delivered using a ‘best-practice’ project delivery approach and are delivered within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality.

Deliver high-quality shippable products as per the scope of the program. He/She will understand the key requirements and scope of the project working with the Product Owner and Business stakeholders.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Understand how the product works and how it is used by customers.
• Apply strong engineering principles to drive the development and delivery of the Hotfix and minor release. This role has the ultimate responsibility to manage customer satisfaction and team engagement.
• Technically hands-on and support and guide the team members in solutions to customers and driving the best engineering practices for developing software.
• Implement the Agile frameworks in its entirety in the capacity as a flow manager. Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed and provide timely feedback.
• Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to the Project Steering Committee as per the schedule and agreed-upon metrics. Track progress and review project tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals.
• Timely Interaction with customers on/ off-site to troubleshoot issues, suggests workarounds.
• Should be able to guide/work with the technical team for quicker resolutions and achieve productivity goals for the team.
• Should be able to drive initiatives for productivity and ticket resolution quality improvement.
• Work on providing innovative ideas to improve ticket closure quality.
• Should suggest functionality in the platform to provide ways to improve turn around time for tickets
• Should drive and provide efficient ways for resolution/fixes of common issues across the customers.
• Propose ways to reduce overall tickets, operational efficiencies, and features for product to reduce the support tickets
• Should suggest better implementation for product based on usage on Production
• Should be able to suggest/implement the optimum process for a ticket raised to fix on PROD cycle
• Propose optimum process across departments at interfacing points, do regular ticket analysis and fine-tune the process
• Work on increasing supportability to product, Lead on RED account working with various departments/stakeholders.
• Ensuring Ticket Hygiene with Goal of SLA adherence. Problem and backlog management
• Contribute to knowledge base articles for both customer and internal staff to reduce troubleshooting time and drive faster issue resolution.
• Own large customers for day to day interactions with customers as required. Ensure SLAs are adhered to the accounts
• Ensure successful transition from SE, have regular connection with customers team management and attrition management.

People Management & Recruitment:

• Recruit and manage the team - Coach and Mentor the team members on career growth including performance management discussions. Be the evangelist for a high-performance culture
• Responsible for Resource planning & Optimization driving with utilization to timely deliverables.
• Should engage the team with team building and motivational activities.

What You Bring to the Team:

• 5-7years of solid experience in software product development. Should be in a manager role for at least 4+ years.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or Computers Engineering or equivalent degree in Computer Science
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organisational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality 
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles 
• SCRUM, APM and other agile certificates will be nice to have

Technical Ability:

• Should have experience in transitioning projects (Development and Maintenance).
• Past experience in Building and Managing high-performance teams.
• Exposure to the SAP Platform
• Strong Working Experience in JIRA
• Should have prior development background along with current support role.
• Strong and proven background with experience in Troubleshooting on the Mobile platform
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong orientation towards Technical and functional aspects of the product.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to prioritize the backlog.
• Understanding of customer support processes and tools.