Operations Executive

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in building and growing a Custom layout team from the ground up to support the global DRAM layout requirement;
• Provide leadership in developing Analog and custom layouts to meet schedules and milestones;
• Provide leadership in training the team’s technical skills and cultural healthiness.
• Effectively communicating with engineering teams across multiple countries to ensure the success of the layout project.
• Organize, prioritize, and manage logistics on tasks and resource allocations for multiple projects.
• Manage the performance and development of team members.
• Managing hiring and retention.
• As a critical member of the core DRAM leadership team in India, contributed to the overall success

Qualification/Requirements

• 5 + year experience in analog/custom layout in advanced CMOS process.
• Minimum 3+ years people management experience.
• Expertise in Cadence VLE/VXL and Mentor Graphic Calibre DRC/LVS is a must.
• Must have strong skills in layout and floor planning skills and manual routing.
• Strong ability to build, and continuously develop a premier analog/mixed-signal layout team
• Experienced in managing multiple Custom IC layout projects
• Highly motivated with passion, detail-oriented, systematic, and methodical approach in IC layout design.
• The ability to work and communicate effectively in a team and to be able to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced working environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Independent with strong analytical skills, creative thinking and self-motivation.
• Capable of working in a cross-functional, multi-site team environment in multiple time zones.
• Previous work experience in DRAM/NAND layout design is desirable however not mandatory.

Job Description:

We are looking for a good JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

You will join a team of highly skilled engineers who are responsible for delivering Acceldata’s support services. Our Site Reliability Engineers are trained to be active listeners and demonstrate empathy when customers encounter product issues. In our fun and collaborative environment  Site Reliability Engineers develop strong business, interpersonal and technical skills to deliver high-quality service to our valued customers.

When you arrive for your first day, we’ll want you to have:

• Solid skills in troubleshooting to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system using a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it, and make the product or process operational again
• A strong ability to understand the feelings of our customers as we empathize with them on the issue at hand
• A strong desire to increase your product and technology skillset; increase- your confidence supporting our products so you can help our customers succeed

In this position you will…

• Provide Support Services to our Gold & Enterprise customers using our flagship Acceldata Pulse,Flow & Torch Product suits. This may include assistance provided during the engineering and operations of distributed systems as well as responses for mission-critical systems and production customers.
• Demonstrate the ability to actively listen to customers and show empathy to the customer’s business impact when they experience issues with our products
• Participate in the queue management and coordination process by owning customer escalations, managing the unassigned queue.
• Be involved with and work on other support related activities - Performing POC & assisting Onboarding deployments of Acceldata & Hadoop distribution products.
• Triage, diagnose and escalate customer inquiries when applicable during their engineering and operations efforts.
• Collaborate and share solutions with both customers and the Internal team.
• Investigate product related issues both for particular customers and for common trends that may arise
• Study and understand critical system components and large cluster operations
• Differentiate between issues that arise in operations, user code, or product
• Coordinate enhancement and feature requests with product management and Acceldata engineering team.
• Flexible in working in Shifts.
• Participate in a Rotational weekend on-call roster for critical support needs.
• Participate as a designated or dedicated engineer for specific customers. Aspects of this engagement translates to building long term successful relationships with customers, leading weekly status calls, and occasional visits to customer sites

In this position, you should have…

• A strong desire and aptitude to become a well-rounded support professional. Acceldata Support considers the service we deliver as our core product.
• A positive attitude towards feedback and continual improvement
• A willingness to give direct feedback to and partner with management to improve team operations
• A tenacity to bring calm and order to the often stressful situations of customer cases
• A mental capability to multi-task across many customer situations simultaneously
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience. Master’s degree is a plus
• At least 2+ years of experience with at least one of the following cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), experience with managing and supporting a cloud infrastructure on any of the 3 platforms. Also knowledge on Kubernetes, Docker is a must.
• Strong troubleshooting skills (in example, TCP/IP, DNS, File system, Load balancing, database, Java)
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal)
• Prior enterprise support experience in a technical environment strongly preferred

Strong Hands-on Experience Working With Or Supporting The Following

• 8-12 years of Experience with a highly-scalable, distributed, multi-node environment (50+ nodes)
• Hadoop operation including Zookeeper, HDFS, YARN, Hive, and related components like the Hive metastore, Cloudera Manager/Ambari, etc
• Authentication and security configuration and tuning (KNOX, LDAP, Kerberos, SSL/TLS, second priority: SSO/OAuth/OIDC, Ranger/Sentry)
• Java troubleshooting, e.g., collection and evaluation of jstacks, heap dumps

You might also have…

• Linux, NFS, Windows, including application installation, scripting, basic command line
• Docker and Kubernetes configuration and troubleshooting, including Helm charts, storage options, logging, and basic kubectl CLI

• Experience working with scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python)
• Working knowledge of application, server, and network security management concepts
• Familiarity with virtual machine technologies
• Knowledge of databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL,
• Certification on any of the leading Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP ) and/or Kubernetes is a big plus

The right person in this role has an opportunity to make a huge impact at Acceldata and add value to our future decisions. If this position has piqued your interest and you have what we described - we invite you to apply! An adventure in data awaits.

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• Associated with the Group President to drive operational efficiency and sustainable growth in the group entities.
• To prepare business plans and investor pitch decks as per client requirements.
• Analysed the cost effectiveness of the organization
• Designing the business models and roadmaps of various group entities Conducted research to analyse industry trends and fashioned valuable decks to bring forth a strategic direction for the entities.

Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation)

Executive Summary
Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest large Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms. 

Who is This For

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications. 

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS
   
   
   

Primary Skill: System Software Development

Skill sets req:

• Linux porting/development; Linux kernel concepts
• Expertise in Linux BSP device driver development
• Customizing kernel + Porting + Developing Applications Linux Device Driver Development (Character devices) Good Concepts of Network Drivers File Systems Concepts
• Expertise in porting, network stack; optimization, network programming
• Bootloader/Uboot porting
• Camera driver development (Good to have)

• Develop detailed technical analysis and design specifications based on user stories.
• Collaborate heavily with fellow developers, designers, and analysts to solve problems.
• End-to-End Design and Development of cloud applications utilizing Service Fabric / Web API
• Develop complete front-end stack of projects using HTML/CSS and TypeScript with Angular.
• Integrate front-end UI with back-end services.
• Debug cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Ensure responsive implementation.

Critical Competencies / Leadership Anchors

• Builds 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 expectations of internal and external customers.
• Drives innovation to bring creative ideas to market.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of experience developing dynamic, highly interactive user interfaces for the web.
• 4+ years of proven development experience using .NET/C# with a focus on Web API cloud applications
• 4 years experience with RESTful Web API and JSON
• Strong hands-on development with Single Page Applications with at least one year of experience focused on Angular Development
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance.
• Experience with Git, Redux, Typescript, and Angular Material.
• Demonstrated ability to produce technical design documentation for assigned features and user stories.
• Strong drive to learn and produce beautiful code

• As a Senior Software Engineer you will work closely with the Tech Lead, and the rest of the engineering team to build and scale a data-driven platform. This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Tech Lead level role.
• Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, building new services and APIs, developing core business logic, supporting the maintenance of current APIs, reviewing work, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization.
• An effective Senior Software Engineer will be a self-motivated learner; a highly creative engineer having obsessive attention towards detail and thoroughness.

Must Haves

• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 5+ years
• You’re proficient in PHP 7, Laravel, and PostgreSQL
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experienced with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• You’ve the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems

Nice-to-haves

• FrontEnd experience; have built applications in either: React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte
• Startup experience, preferably a tech startup
• Open Source contributor
• You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g. NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Go, C, etc.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Bonus

• Experience deploying applications; AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.
• Experience with leading a team of 3+ developers

Apply if

• You want to be a team member rather than an employee - cultural fit is the most important thing. Start-up life is a roller coaster and we want to make sure no matter how the day has gone we can still go out (virtually) for a pint at the end of it
• You take ownership
• You’ve an eye for detail
• You’re a problem solver, and a perpetual learner
• You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset