Human Resources (HR) Executive

This position demands strong banking /BFSI domain expertise,

precisely retail lending stack.

Senior Presales Manager / Leads.

Work Location : Hyderabad.

Pennant is looking for highly experienced and seasoned Senior Presales Manager to drive the presales function and to support the Sales and Business Development team from functional and solution perspective of Lending Factory which is Pennant's flagship product suite covers the complete loan life cycle. As a senior presales manager, you are accountable for driving the presales life cycle in client acquisition, revenue generation and growth. If you are seasoned professional with excellent understanding of the business application from the functional and technical perspective preferably in the BFSI area, this is an excellent opportunity with tremendous growth potential.

Growth Opportunity:

Banking is the biggest consumer of technology and the share is simply growing. Banks generate maximum profits out of Lending operations hence it’s imperative for them to ensure they use the right business driven technological platforms or solution right from the customer on-boarding, origination, servicing till the closure. In the past few years FI’s have not been able to refresh lending tech stack and that’s leading to challenges, higher operational cost and customer dissatisfaction. However the stupendous growth in lending activities across the segments, markets and LOB’s in the recent times has created once in a decade business opportunity for Pennant. Do you want to be part of our growth story?

Roles & Responsibilities:

·      You have to bring in domain and industry knowledge, share know-how gained through client interactions in a structured way to the product engineering, implementation, sales, marketing and senior management;

·      Role involves gathering market competition and customer information, responding to RFPs/RFIs- Functional/Technical compliances, Solution Preparation, Proposal preparation, as per the timelines of prospect/customer, coordinate with different internal/external teams to identify the business pains to offer a solution in line with the client requirement

·      Work closely with various internal teams to orchestrate the right technical, functional and commercial responses that create differentiated value for Pennant and help winning bids;

·      Take bottom line responsibility for highest possible quality of our responses, presentations and interactions with the prospect;

·      Prepare and present the company and its responses to CXO’s of the prospect;

·      Lead discovery workshops to determine customers business challenges and deliver product demonstrations to align solution with customer needs

·      Collaborate with marketing and take responsibility to build collaterals for specific LOB’s, personas and modules; refresh them on regular basis;

·      Write blogs, whitepapers and contribute content for website/social media as an when required; get noticed;

·      Mentoring and handholding the junior staff and build excellent presales capabilities

·      Deserving candidate would have worked in the past in technical solutions and presales capacity

Skills and Competencies:

·      Great presentation and communication skills is a must;

·      Hunger for world class quality work is expected;

·      Minimum of 5 years plus experience in handling multi-million USD international pursuits;

·      Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services to the highest possible quality;

·      Deep knowledge of banking applications, hardware and software, including lending business processes and programming;

·      Coordination, presentation skills, objection handling and effective written communication, questioning skills, influencing and personal impact;

·      Excellent intra personal skills and problem-solving skills;

·      Able to persuade client to buy our software;

·      Demonstrating integrity and transparency in the engagement;

Experience & Qualifications:

·      Experience : 8-15 years (I am open to consider Presales Consultants with 4+ years of experience also)

·      MBA graduate from a reputed institute or CA

Job Details:

·      Work Location : Hyderabad .. - 5 days, Work from office, no hybrid now.

·      Territory : Domestic and International Markets

• Attributes: Resourceful, Self-starter, Independent and Self-motivated, Ambitious, Entrepreneurial spirit, Collaborative, Focused

About Pennant:

Pennant Technologies is an agile, innovative financial technology company that powers the lending operations of global banks and financial institutions - HDFC, Bajaj Finserve, LIC HFL, Godrej HFL, RAK Bank, QNB to name a few.

Its suite of future ready lending products and solutions offer banks composable features and scalable capabilities to deliver differentiated loan origination, servicing and collections experiences for their customers. Trusted by leading banks and financial institutions in Asia, Pennant’s award-winning lending platform has managed more than 10 Million loans and facilitates 50 Million loan transactions per year.

Pennant is HQ in Hyderabad and have offices and/ business operations in India, ME, Saudi, Australia, Philippines and UK. We are aggressively expanding across the geographies and adding to our 450+ workforce, spread across multiple locations. Visit us at www.pennanttech.com

What you will be doing:

• Participate in network and security initiatives, network designs, project plans, and deployments as well as coordinating technical issues with vendors and internal teams
• Contribute to design, installation, maintenance, vulnerability remediation, and monitoring of network and security systems
• Responsible for expert-level troubleshooting of any problems relating to global issues - participation in security incident management and response.
• Providing support and guidance to Technology teams across network and security technologies.
• Adhere to IT access-management incident response and change control procedures (ITIL)
• Continuous documentation of the IT network infrastructure including technical specifications, design documents, roll-out, and disaster recovery plans

What we are looking for:

A Network Security engineer with a solid comprehensive background in:

• Ability to manage, supervise and delegate multiple tasks
• Strong experience with SIEM and log management
• EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response - especially in Microsoft ATP, Defender or SentinelOne) configuration and management.
• Vendor management; including SOC (Security Operations Centre) providers
• Global Security Incident management support
• Experience in SD-WAN (Meraki) management and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of network security, hardening network equipment, and vulnerability scans
• Experience in Microsoft security and endpoint management tooling such as MCAS and MEM
• Excellent troubleshooting skills. Ability to rapidly identify respond to and resolve issues
• Proven experience in remote access technologies (ZScaler an advantage)
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• An ability to work under pressure and take ownership of tasks and customer issues.
• Ability to work individually and as part of a global Infrastructure Technology team with regional teams in India, UK and North America.

8+ years of experience  Excellent skills in C/C++/Java programming in embedded domain 

Strong experience  in the area of Automotive, Android Embedded development and Connectivity Technologies
Strong experience on Android architecture, HAL, BSP, customize driver in Android HAL, Android boot up sequence
Familiar with Android Build System and procedure and able to provide ideas to improve continuous build and integration

Experience in Hardware peripherals like Ethernet, CAN, DMA, I2C, SPI, UART, Hardware Accelerator, AFE , LCD, backlight, touchcontroller

Experience with design/ modification to Hardware Abstraction Libraries (HAL) for Android support of low-level device features.
Experience in debugging on a wide range of Linux Kernel drivers and Android framework HALs e.g. Audio/Video, USB, Bluetooth, WiFi

  Fluent in industry standard software development tools: HSW/HE debuggers, code revision control systems (GIT, Perforce), IDEs and build tools
Exposure/experience in Automotive Embedded Software Development is a plus

• Play an active role in QA activities during all phases of our product development from requirements elaboration, design/development, test and deployment
• Responsible for manual and automated testing activities for a multi-tier web-based platform. This includes writing test cases based on business requirements, test data creation, creating and maintaining automated scripts to test front-end, APIs and database changes
• Creating and maintaining all QA related documentation throughout the process
• Execution of the test phase consistent with the overall project schedules
• Direct interaction/facilitation of bug resolution with engineering teams
• Work effectively within a dynamic team environment following standards and best practices and ensure the highest level of quality
• Ability to understand the technical architecture, its implementation, design patterns, data representations and infrastructure powering these systems.
• Work closely with software devs and solution architects to understand the tech stack, design and accordingly build the test frameworks, setup infra and build execution models to drive the end-to-end quality efforts of backend systems/services and client apps
• Debug test failures, read through logs, network calls and make preliminary root cause analysis of defect/bug
• Develop test plans, test cases, test design documents with good coverage and optimised testing approach
• Should be able to identify the test cases qualifying for test automation
• Use of tracking tools to log, manage, resolve and report on bugs

Candidate requirements

Must have

• At least 2-4 years of experience in manual and automated quality assurance
• Experience on automation tools like TestNG, Selenium (Grid, parallel, SauceLabs), Mocha_Chai frontend or backend test automation
• Good understanding of REST APIs and a solid experience in testing them
• Tools like Jira, Asana or similar bug tracking tool, Confluence - Wiki, Jenkins - CI tool
• Knowledge of different browsers and cross-platform operating systems
• Keen eye for design and functional UX
• Strong in writing SQL queries
• Proficiency in git
• Ability to develop or maintain applications for test automation
• Excellent written and oral communication and organisational skills with the ability to work within a growing company with increasing needs
• Proven track record of ability to handle time-critical projects

Good to have

• Experience in working in a distributed micro-service environment
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript or any other programming language
• Hands-on experience in testing frameworks like Pytest or testing platforms like BrowserStack
• Built APIs at some point and practical knowledge on working with them
• Good understanding of CI/CD
• Ability to independently manage test environment deployments and handle issues around it
• Performed load testing of API endpoints
• Should have built an API test automation framework from scratch and maintained it
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Computer Applications

Role Value: By developing highly performant, robust and scalable web services and back-ends, you will have an impact on the latency and accuracy. You will add value to our organization by mentoring and guiding engineers. By spotting opportunities in new technologies and identifying areas where they could be leveraged, you will have a deep impact on our tech stack and the way it benefits the business.

Role: You will work with stakeholders to identify the business problem, and then develop layered architectures that can be delivered in an incremental fashion. You will demonstrate a combination of technical leadership and business acumen by making appropriate trade-offs of technical integrity, complexity, time to market and cost. You are a stellar engineer and will write production quality code 70-80% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features spanning across systems in a manner that satisfies requirements of performance, scale, security and robustness
• Contribute to improvement of technology and execution processes in the company
• Collaborate in setting technology standards with technology leaders across the company
• Serve as a knowledge centre on current and emerging technologies, and help train others when required
• Foster a strong technical culture by mentoring other engineers
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies, evaluate new tools
• Should open to work on Golang.

Relevant Experience and Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in system-level design of large scale distributed systems on OOPs, and experience with web services and service oriented architectures
• Have 7 - 13 years of professional experience in software development.
• Extensive experience with modern open source systems including relational / non relational data stores.
• Experience with AWS stack, at least the common datastores and services
• Experience with containerization technologies and concepts including Docker
• Basic knowledge about security concepts and secure coding
• Excellent analytical, conceptual and communication skills in spoken and written English.

Progression

• At Devtron Labs you have the opportunity to work in a collaborative and trusting environment allowing you to turn your ideas into reality
• be part of a strong team, where everyone’s opinion matters
• have flexible working hours, and learning & development opportunities
• We trust on you because we are having fully remote work culture
• work in a meritocracy, where you grow professionally by excelling at work

Equal Opportunities: Devtron Labs is, and always will be, committed to diversity and inclusion. We seek Devtronians from all backgrounds to join our teams and encourage everyone to bring their authentic, original and best selves to work.