Enterprise Data Architect

Intuitive. Cloud is seeking a high-performing, energetic person to help lead various Agile Scrum teams through Project Management. The Agile Delivery Team is responsible for major enterprise platforms that are critical to the success of Intuitive. This position not only manages large/small scale projects but will also be responsible for making sure a Scrum team lives by the values and practices of Scrum.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Socialize and execute Intuitive Digital/Cloud transformation/Data platform strategy & provide technology support to our customers
• Build Strong Customer Relationship framework, Create and maintain technical project plans outlining tasks, delivery dates and allocation of resource es aligned to statements of work (SOW's)
• Plan, manage, and execute variety of cloud deployment, Networking, Infrastructure, Application Development/deployment, Virtualization, or IT systems development projects.
• Lead contract renewal efforts for existing clients, provide support to leadership in SOW development process.
• Teach, mentor, guide, and coach the Delivery Team (and organization) on Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Lean principles and practices. Coach the Delivery Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
• Manage project resources ensuring all projects meet customer obligations and budget expectations
• Provide timely and accurate status updates to all customer, partner, and Intuitive stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• Own and manage technical project escalations through to resolution, and ensure expectations are clearly set with customer and within Intuitive teams
• Assist in the development and maintenance of project methodology aligned to the project skillset for efficient delivery
• Gather information at front end to determine project parameters and specifications, and to budget human, financial and other resources.
• Expected to provide technical oversight to some staff and track attainment of project milestones and Support KPIs.
• Embrace and role model servant leadership.

Technical Skills Required

• Lead complex cloud implementation, migration, and cloud support projects from kickoff to closure
• Knowledge of Data Center, Mid-Range infrastructures, Cabling, and Networking (IP Schema, Routing, and Switching products)
• Understanding of Security (IDS and Firewalls), blades enclosure, Backup, Storage & Server OS
• Remote Connectivity Tool Knowledge (DRAC, RDP, ILO)
• VMware Infrastructure (vCenter, vMotion, DRS Clusters, VM Converter, NSX-VtoT, Realize)
• Understanding of Vulnerability Management processes.
• Experience in handling small- and large-scale projects involving IT infrastructure technologies like Cloud Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Experience with Cloud (AWS), Data Center technologies, and Cloud migration projects.
• Functional understanding of cloud (AWS), data center components, and conceptual integration of servers, storage, and networking technologies.
• Knowledge in Software Defined Networks (SDN) & SD-WAN – Mandatory
• Understanding of Enterprise Network, system, and application-level security issues.
• Routing and Switching, MPLS, SD-WAN, SDN Technology, Network Security - Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Proxy
• Good understanding and skills in Network Traffic Engineering and Analysis
• Knowledge of API Led connectivity approach
• Understanding of underlying ESB architecture with experience of server admin and physical deployment On Cloud, On-Premises, and Hybrid, Runtime Fabric4 etc.
• Experience building, testing, and deploying applications.

Job Functions:

• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies and enforces time boxes. Embrace and role model Agile Principles.
• Help remove organizational and team impediments to agility and progress. Assist Delivery Team and Product Owner with relentless and continuous improvement in processes and product delivery.
• Meet with customer Key stakeholders, application owners, application developers, and analysts, coding staff to determine continuously evolving business needs and functionalities desired.
• Build a project plan for the relatively large or complex project(s), including milestones, resources needed in the form of staffing hours, budget, technology stack, following established project management methodology.
• Track course of project from meetings, conferring with customer leadership to internal developers, and receiving reports. Update project plan as needed.
• Document changes to scope or functionalities with change ticket, project plan, or another format.
• Assess compliance of development process with accepted methodology and communicate to responsible managers or staff. Document exceptions or deviations as needed.
• Convene meetings and plan agenda to ensure important issues are aired and resolved.
• Report on progress of project, use of staff, $ expenditures, progress on milestones and the like to application owners.
• Provide guidance to project staff; may manage staff of analysts who are developing technical specifications or developers who are coding.
• Plan, document, manage and evaluate staff performance, or contribute to evaluation by their managers.
• Contribute to professional or technical development of less experienced staff by mentoring or training.

Qualifications:

• You must possess the minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other related field; or an equivalent of other work experience/training such as relevant military experience or technical school training

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry
• 3+ years of professional Scrum Master experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Certification
• Certified Scrum Master OR SAFe Agile Certification required
• 3+ years of experience in Agile/SAFe methodologies including tools used for work planning and tracking such as Rally, Jira, etc.
• 7+ years of Project Management experience
• Specialized Knowledge & Skills:

o          Experience with large scale cloud deployment and support projects.

o          Cloud platforms include Azure, AWS, GCP

o          Expert use of Microsoft Project and Project Server Expert use of SharePoint

o          Expert use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point.

o          Expert use of Microsoft Visio Ability to manage a program of projects (possibly up to 15).

o          Excellent presentation skills.

o          Ability to create and manage large budgets (to include resource tracking, capital expenditures and other project expenses).

o          Ability to interface with senior management in order to provide status, manage issues, and present options.

Strategic Vendor Alliance – AWS Practice Lead and Overall P&L owner for India Business and Drive Profitability.

A) Managing the AWS Practice for Clients and executing the strategic business plan for the company and channel partners ecosystem with regards to different Services of AWS.

B) Built key relationships with various segment leaders in AWS from the Commercial and Public Sector and create Client led AWS Solutions for Partners to make simplifying cloud approach for customers.

C) Building a predictable pipeline of joint opportunities via differentiated proposition to the customers and Partners by working with AWS on a unique offerings specifically to Client.

D) Drive SMB focus approach for AWS which contributes 50%of Clients overall Business using ready to use cloud bundles for various workloads

E) Own the relationship map, drive and monitor cadence meetings, both with Internal Sellers and Channel Partners measured by different parameters on Incremental growth ,customer acquisition, partners onboarding, Manage Services led approach ,migration and deployment ,success of each GTM

F) Lead a Team of Product Mangers (who will drive specific GTM like SAP on AWS , SMB Scale Drive, Education focus,Cloud Front Drive- CDN bundle , Strategic Workloads like Microsoft Workload,DC Migration ,DR on Cloud)

G) Managing Partner Profitability metrics by creating various different avenues from recurring resale consumption and services led engagement for partners.

H) Worked on Long Term direction of the company business plan to drive Incremental Growth.

I)Collaborate with internal peers within the company to build cloud business model,how to attach manage services to various services of the Hyperscaler in building the framework.

Amagi Media Labs is rapidly disrupting the TV broadcasting Industry as we know it. Founded in 2008, Amagi is now the largest TV AD Network with over 30 million advertising seconds and more than 400 TV channels working on Amagi’s Cloud Infrastructure and managed playout servers. To know more about what Amagi does please visit http://www.amagi.com">www.amagi.com

Technical Program Manager Job Description

Amagi is looking to expand its project/program management team responsible for managing end to end development and delivery of various ongoing software development programs and initiatives within Amagi. We are looking for people who are process oriented, have a strong technology background, who have experience in executing and managing large software projects in the past. The software development projects under execution are largely in the intersection of media and cloud technology domains. 

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of multiple short term and long term product development and delivery initiatives for Amagi's key products 
• Working closely with cross-functional teams like engineering, product, quality assurance, operations and customer success teams.
• Articulating and defining program milestones for  successful and timebound completion of initiatives by developing project plans in collaboration with all the stakeholders. 
• Identifying and resolving process bottlenecks, dependencies and related challenges
• Enterprise program management : Apart from standard product offerings, for enterprise customers, Amagi offers tighter integration and customization of their workflows over the core product offerings.  In this role you one manage end to end onboarding and going live for such enterprise customers.  This involves 
• Working with pre-sales/sales/onboarding/customer to get the requirements
• Prepare a detailed project plan & track it across teams; keep the stakeholders (Sales, ONB, Customer) updated on status and milestones
• Work with Enterprise Engagement Team in Broadcast Engineering closely to deliver according to the plan
• Get the customer trained on the platform before going live
• Formally hand off to support once the customer has gone live

• Create, publish and maintain well organised, comprehensive data and information about the initiatives to enable organization wide transparency and reporting
• Developing dashboards and success metrics to provide visibility to various stakeholders.  
• Ensuring consistent and clear status reporting 
• Prepare presentations and provide supporting data as needed

• Managing one or more programs involving product development initiatives belonging to various categories, like 
• Cutting edge cloud technology intensive SaaS products
• Software solution involving media technology (eg, audio/video streaming) 
• Web frontend and backend related products (built on latest web frameworks)

• Setting up processes, actively participating in improving and maintaining processes for product development and delivery initiatives to enable efficiency across organization
• Based on agile methodologies and project management best practices
• Training and evangelizing the participating teams on agile processes

• Managing executive stakeholders
• Helping the program management team as a whole to publish metrics, dashboards to bring visibility of various programs to the executive team.
• Helping the executive team to take directional calls on new and ongoing programs.  

Desired Skills and Experience

We'll need you to have a good foundation for establishing technical and non-technical enablement needs for internal and external teams.

Required Skills: 

• Communication skills: The candidate must be good at business communication, good at using all modern tools at disposal, be able to organize and lead meetings as and when required. 
• Technical Knowledge: The candidate must have a strong technical background and must be well aware of software engineering technology stacks popularly used in technology heavy companies. The candidate must be able to write and present tech heavy documentation.
• Process Knowledge: The candidate must have experience in running process oriented programs and projects, must have knowledge of agile frameworks, and should be able to set up agile processes for existing and new product development initiatives. 
• Data driven acumen: The candidate must be able to do qualitative and quantitative analysis on available data and metrics to take up calls and set directions for the team.
• Relationship management: The candidate must be able to maintain a good working relationship with various cross functional team members and key stakeholders.

Required Experience:

• Experience in running scrum ceremonies and managing related artifacts
• Hands on experience in project management tools (e.g. Jira)
• Domain experience: Prior experience in media technologies like OTT, audio/video technologies, AWS/GCP cloud based application or web application development

Formal Qualifications:

• Certifications (Preferable):  Agile certifications - CSM® / PMI-ACP® / SaFE® 
• Preferred Work Experience: 2 - 5 years 
• Enterprise Program managers: 5-7 years in Project/Program management
• Educational Qualifications: BE/BTech + MBA (From Tier I/II institutes) 

Digital and Technology Architecture

• Head the digital transformation and innovation projects from idea generation to new ventures in close collaboration with business stakeholders and external partners
• Present the vision & value of proposed architectures and solutions to a wide range of audiences in alignment with business priorities and objectives
• Plans tasks and estimates for the required research and volume of activities to complete work
• Own and assess non-functional requirements and propose solutions for Availability, Backup, Capacity, Performance, Redundancy, Reliability, Scalability, Supportability, Risks and Costs models
• Provide strategic guidance to teams on managing third-party service providers in terms of service levels, costing, etc.
• Drive the team to ensure appropriate documentation is developed in support of value realization
• Lead the technical team and head collaboration between Business Users and software providers to build digital solutions

Enterprise Architecture

• Ownership of overall Enterprise Architecture including compliances and standards
• Head the overall Architecture blueprint and roadmap for  applications aligning with Enterprise Architecture
• Identify important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future Enterprise needs, evaluating their applicability and fit, as well as leading the definition of standards and best practice for their use

Data Architecture

• Ownership of overall Data Architecture including compliances and standards
• Head the overall Architecture blueprint and roadmap applications aligning with Data Architecture
• Identify important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future Data needs, evaluating their applicability and fit, as well as leading the definition of standards and best practice for their use

• 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience

• 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment

• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala

• Agile software development expert
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation

• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

• Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)

Project Manager

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud?’

Do you cloud?

1. Expertise driving infrastructure engineering projects & transform initiatives from deep-tech startups to 42,000U (1,000 42U racks) loaded enterprises.
2. Have you tandem-jumped at least 50 times taking along a trusted business having on-prem workloads to safe-land onto a public cloud with a soft touchdown?
1. Do you understand the innards of Apache web servers on Linux and Sharepoint Server Farms alike?
2. Do you speak CloudFormation? Terraform? Do you speak JSON? 
3. Do you love automating everything possible leveraging Python / Powershell / Bash?
3. Are you a voracious reader fascinated by the latest & greatest innovations on public cloud?

Introduction

We welcome *really unconventional* creative thinkers who can work in an agile, flexible environment. We are a flat organization with unlimited growth opportunities, and small team sizes – wherein flexibility is a must, mistakes are encouraged, creativity is rewarded, and excitement is required.

1. This is an entrepreneurial project management position that challenges the client status quo by helping them re-imagine the art of what is possible using consulting mindset and business strategy skills.
2. This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - ability to coordinate with Sales - Presales - Delivery - MS and get project delivery done. 
3. This position is for hard-core-geek-turned--engineer-turned-Tech enthusiast -turned-Project Manager.

What we are NOT looking for: Buzzword Bozos (BB) or Certification Chasers (CC).

What we seek is an AA (Awesome Attitude to Learn, Improve & Coach).

Not just a BB or CC? Quick self-discovery test:

When was the last time you thought about how GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) can help auto-create new building designs for an architect or new jewellery designs for a designer OR passionately convinced a friend that Google Video Intelligence API or AWS Rekognition can now auto-video-screen an applicant with 90+% confidence level almost automating 75+% efforts of a recruiter, OR leverage Google Vision API to do e-KYC? If this is what you constantly get blamed for & your friends have made a strip for you on xkcd, you are probably the right-fit for what we are looking for.

Your bucket of Undertaking :

This position will be responsible to consult with the clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS  or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitates the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform

Education, Experience, etc.

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)

1. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
2. 3 - 5 years of experience with at least 1 - 2 years of hands-on experience in delivering Cloud Consulting(AWS/GCP/Azure) projects in a global enterprise environment.
3. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
4. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

A quick self-discovery test below:

1. How you treat yourself & others?
1. You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
2. You have ‘one’ life - no work life or personal life. You are the same at both places.
3. You are generally happy and passionate about life. When shit does happen you know how to tell your heart ‘All is well’.
4. You are compassionate to yourself, you love your work, your company, your country, and are generally a person people like to be around.
2. How you work & live?
1. You make difficult & complex decisions in an environment filled with lack of well defined constraints and uncertainty.
2. You are able to admit to your team that you were shit scared while making those decisions.
3. You are able to juggle conflicting priorities and remain composed as the client keeps on changing requirements. :)
4. You are genuinely passionate about developing great software, learning a lot, helping others learn and  having loads of fun while doing so.
3. What you love?
1. You love things. You are passionate. You care for your self, family, country and Big Bang Theory (and this is a must!).
2. You love to organize, index, and improve things around you - Yes you are Sheldon’ish’ at times and ‘Leonard’ish’ the other times.
3. You are passionate about improving processes and you truly feel satisfied by making things better.
4. You love Google. And AWS. And Terraform. And CI - CD pipelines. And linux.

• Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute with at least 8+ years over all professional experience. At-least 2+ years experience in managing/leading software development teams.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Able to drive sprints and OKRs.
• Exceptional team managing skills; experience in building large scale distributed systems
• Experience in Scalable Systems - transactional systems (B2C)
• Expertise in Java/J2EE and multithreading
• Deep understanding of transactional and NoSQL DBs
• Deep understanding of Messaging systems - kafka
• Good experience on cloud infrastructure - AWS preferably
• Good to have: Data pipelines, ES
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise and depth-wise while designing and implementing services
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.