Engineering Head

UNext

Job Description – Admission Counsellor

About the Role

UNext is a next-generation online learning organization focused on the higher education

ecosystem. UNext aims to improve access, increase affordability, provide high-quality content and

pedagogy, and deliver enhanced outcomes for the student/learner community by leveraging

technology.

UNext is India’s first ed-tech company that provides end-to-end learning and assessment solutions

in the online education space. With a best-in-class content and technology stack, UNext offers

platforms for online courses, digital and online assessments, and student engagement tools.

The platform is designed to help universities, colleges, and institutions make quality education

affordable and accessible to learners anytime and anywhere. Replicating the on-campus

experience online, UNext provides an immersive learning experience through a mobile-first LMS

platform, access to world-class courses through synchronous and asynchronous learning, modern

pedagogy, online assessments, alumni networks, and expert assistance to improve learner

outcomes.

Role Overview

The Admission Counsellor will play a fundamental role in achieving customer acquisition goals and

revenue growth objectives. The candidate will be responsible for guiding prospective students

through the admission process, understanding their educational needs, and recommending suitable

programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Source new sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up and outbound cold calls and

emails.

• Responsible for student admissions and achieving assigned sales targets.

• Understand customer needs and recommend suitable programs.

• Close sales and achieve quarterly revenue quotas.

• Counsel and interact with students and parents regarding program options.

• Support students one-on-one with course selection, application process, and meeting deadlines.

• Assist students in obtaining necessary documentation required for the application process.

• Provide students and parents with information regarding admission requirements, enrollment

processes, and procedures.

• Coordinate efficient handling of applications and communication with parents of student applicants.

Requirements

• Ability to empathize with students and parents and build strong relationships through

conversations.

• Strong inclination to work in a target-driven sales environment.

• Proven expertise in converting leads into sales.

• Experience working with CRM systems.

• Fluency in English and Hindi is mandatory.

• Strong listening, communication, and presentation skills.

Job Details

Location MG Road, Bangalore

Working Days 6 Days a Week

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain web applications using Laravel and Vue.js (PHP) framework.

Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex problems.

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

Test and debug applications to ensure they meet functional and performance requirements.

Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development.

Optimize application performance and scalability.

Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.

Create and maintain technical documentation for applications.

Communicate project status and progress to stakeholders.

Qualifications

Strong proficiency in PHP programming language

Experience with Laravel framework

Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery

Understanding of MVC architecture

Experience with database management systems such as MySQL

Familiarity with version control systems such as Git

Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred)

Relevant certifications such as CodeIgniter Certified Developer (optional)

• 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
• AWS or cloud Experience
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

About Kloud9:

Kloud9 exists with the sole purpose of providing cloud expertise to the retail industry. Our team of cloud architects, engineers and developers help retailers launch a successful cloud initiative so you can quickly realise the benefits of cloud technology. Our standardised, proven cloud adoption methodologies reduce the cloud adoption time and effort so you can directly benefit from lower migration costs.

Kloud9 was founded with the vision of bridging the gap between E-commerce and cloud. The E-commerce of any industry is limiting and poses a huge challenge in terms of the finances spent on physical data structures.

At Kloud9, we know migrating to the cloud is the single most significant technology shift your company faces today. We are your trusted advisors in transformation and are determined to build a deep partnership along the way. Our cloud and retail experts will ease your transition to the cloud.

Our sole focus is to provide cloud expertise to retail industry giving our clients the empowerment that will take their business to the next level. Our team of proficient architects, engineers and developers have been designing, building and implementing solutions for retailers for an average of more than 20 years.

We are a cloud vendor that is both platform and technology independent. Our vendor independence not just provides us with a unique perspective into the cloud market but also ensures that we deliver the cloud solutions available that best meet our clients' requirements.

Responsibilities:

●       Studying, transforming, and converting data science prototypes

●       Deploying models to production

●       Training and retraining models as needed

●       Analyzing the ML algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranking them by their respective scores

●       Analyzing the errors of the model and designing strategies to overcome them

●       Identifying differences in data distribution that could affect model performance in real-world situations

●       Performing statistical analysis and using results to improve models

●       Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed

●       Defining data augmentation pipelines

●       Defining the pre-processing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset

●       To extend and enrich existing ML frameworks and libraries

●       Understanding when the findings can be applied to business decisions

●       Documenting machine learning processes

Basic requirements: 

●       4+ years of IT experience in which at least 2+ years of relevant experience primarily in converting data science prototypes and deploying models to production

●       Proficiency with Python and machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn and pandas

●       Knowledge of Big Data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Flume, etc

●       Experience in working with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV

●       Strong written and verbal communications

●       Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.

●       Expertise in visualizing and manipulating big datasets

●       Familiarity with Linux

●       Ability to select hardware to run an ML model with the required latency

●       Robust data modelling and data architecture skills.

●       Advanced degree in Computer Science/Math/Statistics or a related discipline.

●       Advanced Math and Statistics skills (linear algebra, calculus, Bayesian statistics, mean, median, variance, etc.)

Nice to have

●       Familiarity with Java, and R code writing.

●       Exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world

●       Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning

●       Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed

●       Finding available datasets online that could be used for training

Why Explore a Career at Kloud9:

With job opportunities in prime locations of US, London, Poland and Bengaluru, we help build your career paths in cutting edge technologies of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. Be part of an inclusive and diverse workforce that's changing the face of retail technology with their creativity and innovative solutions. Our vested interest in our employees translates to deliver the best products and solutions to our customers.

Designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform

Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Bug fixing and improving application performance

Role : Lead Dot net Developer

Experience : 9 to 11 Years

Job Location : Chennai

About OJ Commerce:

OJ Commerce is a fast-growing, profitable online retailer based in Florida, USA with a full-fledged India office based in Chennai driven by a sophisticated, data-driven system to run the operations with virtually no human intervention. We strive to be the best-in-class ecommerce company delivering exceptional value to customers by leveraging technology, innovation and brand-partnerships to provide a seamless & enjoyable shopping of high-quality products at the best prices to our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Self-Motivated and committed individual with ability to take initiatives and manage change and work towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work

• Collaborative with team using Agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies

• Provides the Development Lead with accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration, along with confidence levels and foreseeable dependencies

• Provides problem resolution support, specific to application issues, identifies and resolves problems in application software, determines symptoms and ensures accurate problem definition

• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Skills

• 9+ years of experience as Lead hands-on developer with deep experience in building enterprise grade software in Microsoft ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, SOA, Micro-Services and RESTful Services with knowledge of SQL Server database.

• Strong experience in developing web applications in C#, .NET, LINQ, Net Framework 4.0, MVC 3/4/5, JQuery, Server side development experience with ASP.NET Web API

• Experience in Containers like Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud platforms like Google Cloud, AWS.

• Hands-on experience in building SOA or Micro-services preferably on .NET Core.

• Strong expertise in an object oriented principles and software design patterns.

• Proven Architectural skills with high standards in Code quality

• Knowledge of AngularJS or Typescript would be added advantage.

• Experience in DevOps, Agile practise, CI/CD tools, TFS and Cloud infrastructure.

What we Offer

• Competitive salary

• Medical Benefits/Accident Cover

• Flexi Office Working Hours

• Fast paced start up

• Manage each project’s scope and timeline
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it

• Experience in a scrum master role
• Familiarity with software development
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Crystal, XP, etc.)
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field
• Scrum Master certification is a plus

• Accomplishes department objectives by managing staff; planning and evaluating department activities.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Ensures a safe, secure, and legal work environment.
• Develops personal growth opportunities.
• Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Coaches, counsels, and disciplines employees.
• Develops, coordinates, and enforces systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.
• Establishes strategic goals by gathering pertinent business, financial, service, and operations information.
• Defines objectives, identifies and evaluates trends and options, chooses a course of action, and evaluates outcomes.
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
• Maintains quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards, analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems, and recommending system improvements.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.