Mainframe developer

Position Full-Time: Investment Engineering Associate

Specific Responsibilities

The Investment Engineering Associate’s main responsibilities will include supporting the investment team by building technology-based analytical tools. The Investment Engineering Associate will design and maintain workflows vital to the firm’s investment process - this ranges from creating adhoc analysis to information rich dashboard construction. Typical tasks will include web crawler scripting/collection, web application development, programming (including API integrations), and optimal database/library/query management.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science

• 2+ years of experience • Candidates should have extensive experience with several of the following languages: Python, Ruby, C/C++, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, PHP, etc.

• The Investment Solutions Associate should be familiar with Office VBA • Characteristics of the Solutions Associate include: effective communication skills, attention to detail, and strong ethical values

Preparing Business Case for new projects in alignment with BU Head and Business

Solutioning Team.

 Developing the commercial strategy and the commercial direction of projects

 Monitoring the progress of projects

 Review use cases and other technical documents to ensure business requirements are

adequately reflected in planning documents.

 Develop MIS aligned to critical performance metrics identified.

 Oversee the AOP exercise of the Region/ BU and monitor actual vs. AOP

 Works closely within the unit and with business partners to identify and maximize

opportunities and to improve products and services.

 Assist Regional Head in developing tactical and strategic products, services and/or

programs to support the region’s goals.

Experience & attributes

 5-7 years’ experience in business analysis and project management with multinational

corporations or Big 4 accounting firms. Experience in Market Intelligence, Competitive

and Corporate Intelligence preferred.

 Prior experience in telecom sector most preferred.

 Strong Financial modelling skills with ability to analyse and assess the financial viability

of long-term projects using financial metrics.

 Possess excellent problem-solving abilities, ability to develop and analysis business

plans.

 Knowledge and understanding of project management principles, practices, process and

techniques including the ability to gather clear business requirements.

 Proven experience working with MS Office suite and developing and maintaining various

analyses and reporting tools.

We are looking for an experienced and result-driven Business Development Executive who will be in-charge of leading our company's sales efforts. As a successful hire, you will be responsible for acquiring' new customers to rapidly increase revenue for the company.

Responsibilities:

• Hunt /acquire new customers.
• Independently manage the whole sales pipeline - from lead generation -> lead qualification > product presentation -> negotiation -> closure and contract signing.
• Making sales pitches and attending sales meetings with prospective clients.
• Ensuring that the sales pipeline is constantly being built and worked upon.
• Doing sufficient research to make effective pitches.
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers.
• Refine sales approach and meticulously execute on it (target industries, target buyers, and target personas).
• Keep self educated about competitors, and emerging trends among the customers.
• Partner with marketing, demand generation, and onboarding team to manage the customer acquisition.

Requirements:

• MBA with 2-3 years' experience in B2B sales role, preferably in automotive industry.
• Proven ability to achieve targets.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, particularly MS Excel & Powerpoint.
• Ability to draft persuasive proposals.
• Extensive, hands-on experience selling to large and mid-sized corporates.
• Should have a track record of consultative selling.
• Strong in building rapport with customers.
• Excellent communication skills - you are a clear and compelling storyteller across written and verbal mediums.
• Strong listening and problem-solving skills - you invest time in helping customers identify best solutions for their problems, and not force your solution upon the customer.
• Ability to negotiate confidently with mid & senior management folks.
• Organized and task driven.

Requirement:

• Min 2-3 Year Experience. Preferably in the E-commerce domain. 
• Proficient with both MySQL and NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo)
• Strong hold on PHP and preferably good knowledge of Python
• Experience with JavaScript/JQuery
• Ability to do software design for a enterprise web application
• Working knowledge of a MVC front-end framework
• Proficient in HTTP protocol, REST APIs, JSON
• Ability to do database design and modeling
• Proficient in OOPS concepts and writing code using classes
• Ability to write modular and clean code

Role:

• Software Development of various product line 
• Creation web-services and optimization for existing and new feature rollouts
• Collaborate with Product Managers and design solutions 
• Develop very high sense of ownership, the zeal to build scalable applications
• Build customer facing technology product 
• Individual Contributor

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding and knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

Required Candidate profile

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19.
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver scalable and flexible systems.
• Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership.
• Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation.
• Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them.
• Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 25%+ of bandwidth going into coding activities owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in product or online teams.
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo. Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.

Qualification

B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)