Data Scientist

This is a full-time on-site role for an IT Sales Business Development at Chimera Technologies Private Limited in Bengaluru. The role involves day-to-day tasks associated with driving IT sales, developing business opportunities, and cultivating relationships with clients. The Business Development Manager will be responsible for achieving sales targets, creating strategic sales plans, and promoting the company's services and solutions.

• Understand and promote Chimera’s services.
• Generate, nurture, and convert leads into sales.
• Ideate impactful campaigns aligned with Chimera’s capabilities.
• Demonstrate software applications and technology solutions to prospective customers.
• Independently write proposals and validate technical proposals with delivery teams.
• Understand and analyze the competition landscape.
• Be socially active and write case studies or posts for LinkedIn.

1. Key Responsibilities

• Manage on-time and on-budget delivery with planned profitability, consistently looking to improve quality and profitability
• Lead the onsite project teams and ensure they understand the client environment
• Responsible for Backlog growth - Existing projects + Renewals/Extensions of current projects + Rate Revisions
• Responsible for driving RFPs / Proactive bids
• Build senior and strategic relationships through delivery excellence 
• Understand the client environment, issues, and priorities
• Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for the clients

About Us:

At Innovapptive, we are bringing the industrial front-line worker, back-office and assets together.  Our platform is the only patented and “Code-Free” connected worker platform for SAP and IBM Maximo and is disrupting and digitizing archaic, tedious, & labor-intensive paper-based processes for maintenance, operations, & supply chain. The industrial front-line workers are empowered with a suite of highly reconfigurable mobile apps, while the back-office has real-time visibility into the front-line workforce with better planning, scheduling, adoption monitoring and actionable insights. Some of the world’s largest brands such as Newmont Mining, Dominion Nuclear, Hess, Shell, UNICEF, ConocoPhillips, and Reckitt Benckiser are digitally transforming their back-office and front-line industrial worker experiences. We are saving companies millions of dollars by improving their asset uptime, productivity, safety, and talent challenges while delivering jobs better, faster, cheaper and safer. 

We are backed by Tiger Global Management, a Global Marquee Fund with over $30 Billion of Assets Under Management (AUM). Tiger Global Management has a reputation for investing and building some of the world's "Unicorn"​ brands such as Spotify, Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Peloton, Harry's, Ola, Flipkart, Freshworks and many more!

Our mission is made possible by Innovapptive’s most important asset: our people. We come together through collaboration and ambition in a team-driven culture. Through the success of our product, we have seen monumental growth in our workforce, and we constantly look for exceptional talent to join us. At Innovapptive, you are challenged with dynamic tasks that drive your professional development and career growth. Join us on our journey to deliver an innovative connected worker experience and to empower 350 Million Industrial Front-Line Workers around the world with the ability to truly harness the power of connected worker experience by improving the working life of a front-line worker and the back-office employee. 

The Role

In the Implementation Consultant Role, you will be responsible for 

• Participating in Business Requirement & Solution Design Workshops, Requirements and Fit-Gap Analysis, Customer Demos, Understanding Business impact of user requirements, Acceptance Criteria and expected results and Document Business Requirements in Jira Tool, Create Functional Specification documents, Test data preparation, Test scenario documentation etc.
• Implements the solution design by configuring the Innovapptive Mobile Application products using Innovapptive RACE Configuration engine.
• Make necessary SAP Backend system Base configurations to map into mobile applications.
• Configure customer business processes on Mobile applications to enable the solution.
• Work with ABAP Team for the Development of BADI Enhancements for customer-specific requirements and Effort Estimation
• Work on any bugs or issues for triaging and resolution.
• Prepare the Training documents and customer demos if any during the realization phase.
• Regularly Update and track the issues in Jira and coordinate with other cross-functional teams for resolution.
• Work with the Testing team for FUT
• Work on issue resolutions and support during FUT, SIT, UAT, Go-live and Hyper care.
• Provide Knowledge sharing to the Production support team after Go-live and handover.

If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications: 

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Keep abreast of new Innovapptive features and functionality to provide recommendations for process improvements internally and with customers.
• Work in close coordination with various cross-functional teams to ensure effective project delivery.
• Learn and develop expertise in Innovapptive Mobile application products features, functionalities, and Implementation methodology.
• Ensure to escalate blockers to Innovapptive executives before they become customer escalations.
• Mentor and guide junior consultants in the implementation team.
• Support the Hiring team in recruiting A-level talent to meet our company growth objectives.
• Be on top of implementation activities, closely work with teams in getting any blockers addressed on high priority, keep Jira status up to date, and timely escalation for any support required to avoid project delays.
• Work with passion and contribute value in all activities performed.
• Follow organizational guidelines and processes.
• Identify opportunities for continual improvement and changes to drive efficiencies including client satisfaction with effective project execution.
• Ensure defect-free implementation by doing the right things right the first time, every time, by following best practices and carrying a truly professional consulting attitude and aptitude.
• Work with Product Managers, Product Engineers and Professional Services to ensure the bug fixes and root cause analyses and resolutions are conducted in a timely and efficient manner and all implementation issues are addressed promptly

What You Bring to the Team:

• 3+ years of total experience
• 2+ years of relevant Implementation experience in SAP MM
• Excellent Communication skills
• Client interaction and documentation skills
• Have been an Individual contributor to SAP Implementation and support projects.
• Comes with experience in SAP Configuration, Org structure, Master data, Transactional data, Issue analysis and resolution, Deep understanding of the Business process and integration aspects across the above SAP modules.
• Conversant with SAP Transactions, Programs, Tables, Function modules, Reports etc.
• Have good experience in writing Functional specifications for custom developments and have worked closely with ABAP developers in BADI Enhancements for custom requirements.
• Have good experience in writing test scenarios for different business processes and creating test data. Performing FUT.
• Triaging defects identified during FUT, SIT, UAT, and HC and fixing the issues.
• Working with cross-functional teams where the resolution needs to come from other teams.
• Sensitive to customer delivery timelines, the importance of proactive action and time reaching out to leadership and other teams for help, if any is required.
• Experience in working with various tools for issue recording and tracking; Change request management, Testing tools, 3rd party systems integration etc.
• Passion to learn new skills to be able to work productively and efficiently.
• Flexibility to stretch on work timing when required to meet project delivery deadlines.
• Willingness to help other team members when required.
• Demonstrated track record as a strategic thinker, creative problem solver and solutions provider.
• Ability and desire to adapt to a fast-paced environment with changing customer needs, technology requirements and strategic direction with ease.
• Status reporting to the project manager on the deliverables, risks, issues, actions etc.
• Perform duties and make decisions with patience and tact under frequent time pressures.
• SAP Certification in SAP ECC MM, WM or SAP S4 HANA MM or WM would be an Advantage.

What We Offer:

• A positive, open, and highly-innovative environment and team
• Entrepreneurial spirit with unlimited opportunity to grow
• Opportunity to work with leading global brands on exciting and impactful projects
• Competitive Base Pay
• Best of plan on Vacation & Paid Time Off.
• Provision of Medical Insurance for family - self, dependent, spouse, dependent children, parents/parent-in-laws
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bi-annual reviews to ensure transparency and promote a high-performance culture
• OKR Driven Performance Development Environment
• Learning & Development - access to a wide range of e-Learning courses (technical, Product, Process, etc.,)
• A host of Interest Groups/Clubs for Book Reading, Toastmasters, Sports - Cricket, Volleyball, Throw-ball, Badminton, TT, Music

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.

Creates, modifies, and maintains software applications individually or as part of a team.  Provides technical leadership on a team, including training and mentoring of other team members.  Provides technology and architecture direction for the team, department, and organization.

• Develops software applications and supporting infrastructure using established coding standards and methodologies
• Sets example for software quality through multiple levels of automated tests, including but not limited to unit, API, End to End, and load.
• Self-starter and self-organized - able to work without supervision
• Develops tooling, test harnesses and innovative solutions to understand and monitor the quality of the product 
• Develops infrastructure as code to reliably deploy applications on demand or through automation
• Understands cloud managed services and builds scalable and secure applications using them
• Creates proof of concepts for new ideas that answer key questions of feasibility, desirability, and viability
• Work with other technical leaders to establish coding standards, development best practices and technology direction
• Performs thorough code reviews that promote better understanding throughout the team
• Work with architects, designers, business analysts and others to design and implement high quality software solutions
• Builds intuitive user interfaces with the end user persona in mind using front end frameworks and styling
• Assist product owners in backlog grooming, story breakdown and story estimation
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders throughout the organization
• Document software changes for use by other engineers, quality assurance and documentation specialists
• Master the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team and project assigned
• Train others in the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team
• Trouble shoot, instrument and debug existing software resolving root causes of defective behavior
• Guide the team in setting up the infrastructure in the cloud.
• Setup the security protocols for the cloud infrastructure
• Works with the team in setting up the data hub in the cloud
• Create dashboards for the visibility of the various interactions between the cloud services
• Other duties as assigned

• BA/BS in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent work experience

• Mastered advanced programming concepts, including object oriented programming
• Mastered technologies and tools utilized by team and project assigned
• Able to train others on general programming concepts and specific technologies
• Minimum 8 years’ experience developing software applications

• Must be expert in advanced programming skills and database technology
• Must be expert in at least one technology and/or language and proficient in multiple technologies and languages:
• (Specific languages needed will vary based on development department or project)
• .Net Core, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Typescript, Python
• Additional desired skills:
  • Single-Page Applications, Angular (v9), Ivy, RXJS, NGRX, HTML5, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Atomic Design
  • Test First approach, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing (Protractor, Jasmine), Newman Postman, artillery.io
  • Microservices, Terraform, Jenkins, Jupyter Notebook, Docker, NPM, Yarn, Nuget, NodeJS, Git/Gerrit, LaunchDarkly
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lambda, S3, Cognito, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Elasticache
  • Database Design, Optimization, Replication, Partitioning/Sharding, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, PySpark, Kafka
  • Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to track software issues to successful resolution
• Ability to work in a collaborative fast paced environment
• Setting up complex AWS data storage hub
• Well versed in setting up infrastructure security in the interactions between the planned components
• Experienced in setting up dashboards for analyzing the various operations in the AWS infra setup.
• Ability to learn new development language quickly and apply that knowledge effectively

• Defines develop and implement quality assurance practices and procedures, test plans, and other Test assessments.
• Develops automated testing systems using commercial tools, scripts, and data sets in a continuous integration environment.
• Participate in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load and system testing.
• Works collaboratively with development during all stages of projects to provide in-process testing results.
• Engage with scrum in an Agile team environment.
• Own the quality aspect within the scrum team and define and maintain the key quality metrics.
• Critical Competencies / Leadership Anchors
• Creates strong commitment and promotes open dialogue.
• Defines success in terms of the entire team.
• Is action-oriented and has a strong sense of urgency.
• Uses logic and rigorous problem-solving skills to resolve difficult problems and drive effective solutions.
• Relentlessly customer-focused and dedicated to exceeding the expectations of internal and external customers.
• Drives innovation to bring creative ideas to market.

Qualifications

• B.E. with 3+ years of testing experience.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and scrum processes.
• Experience developing automated and manual test plans.
• Experience with test automation tools preferably Selenium & Specflow
• Experience with API testing using Postman or Swagger or others
• Experience with SQL and databases basic knowledge
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C#
• Experience with source-control management such as Git
• Experience in testing apps developed with web technologies such as ASP.NET, MVC, JavaScript, and Angular, Protractor, and Karma.

Desired

• Experience with Continuous Integration such as Jenkins.
• Experience with cloud-based technology and specifically the Azure Cloud.
• Ability to collaborate with DevOps to manage releases.