Platform Engineer

We are seeking a dynamic and self-motivated Business Development Associate to join our growing team. As a key member of the business development and sales team, you will be responsible for generating leads, qualifying prospects, and managing client relationships. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of sales principles, excellent communication skills, and a passion for building relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct market research to identify new business opportunities and potential clients.
• Develop and implement strategic sales plans to achieve company goals and initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships.
• Generate new leads through networking, cold calling, and other lead generation techniques.
• Qualify leads and prospects based on company criteria.
• Prepare proposals, presentations, and sales contracts.
• Collaborate with the sales team to achieve sales goals and targets.
• Maintain a deep understanding of company products/services and industry trends.
• Attend industry events and conferences to network and build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Keep CRM system updated with all client communications and interactions.
• Monitor and report on sales performance metrics.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or related field.
• Proven work experience as a Business Development Associate, Sales Executive, or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of sales principles, methods, practices, and techniques.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage time effectively.
• Experience with CRM software (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot) preferred.
• Self-motivated and driven individual with a passion for sales and business development.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

our responsibilities will include:

• Creating and executing a strong performance marketing strategy & execution plan
• Developing and managing digital prospecting and remarketing campaigns
• Managing budgets and campaigns across all digital channels to drive strong return on investment and efficient CAC
• Ensuring successful planning, execution, optimization for key traffic KPIs via paid, organic & own media channels
• Identifying and testing new channels to continue to meet or exceed established critical metrics
• Working closely with the management to share funnel conversion improvement ideas, feedback & present results.

Attention: We are looking for Immediate joiners!

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 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

• 9+ years of experience in enterprise web application design and development with 4+ years of experience as an automation architect.
• Experienced in technology stack selection and the definition of solution, technology and integration architectures for small to mid-sized applications and cloud hosted platforms
• Strong understanding of various design and architecture patterns
• Experience in implementing and governing software engineering processes, practices, tools and standards for development teams
• Experience of setting up and operating the DevOps and automation infrastructure for continuous integration and delivery
• Full SDLC experience leveraging Agile, TDD and BDD for building and rolling out highly transactional and highly available platforms hosted on premise and on the cloud
• Proficient in effort estimation techniques
• Must be hands on technology and able to troubleshoot critical issues in design or code
• Experience in Mobile Applications automation using SeeTest, Appium
• Strong hands-on experience of designing and developing technology frameworks and micro-services, APIs, REST Web Services, leveraging Java and open source technology stack (i.e. Java, JavaScript, Node.js/ Angular.js/ React.js, Spring Bot, Non-blocking Java, etc. )
• Hands on experience with JBehave, Cucumber, TestNG, Extent Reports
• Strong design, development and performance tuning skills on at least two or more databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, NOSQL and NewSQL (e.g. PostgresQL, Cassandra, Mongo DB, Cosmos DB, MySQL etc.)
• Experience on enterprise architecture patterns and a couple of past examples of architecting high availability, scale and performance applications 
• Strong experience with code review and evaluate the architecture as well as design towards a set of business and technology goals
• Experience with SonarQube code coverage and code quality
• Experience with Cypress JavaScript automation
• Experience on command prompt tools like Shell Script, UNIX
• Hands on experience on Cloud stacks (AWS preferred)
• Hands on experience with standalone applications automation using UFT, LeanFT and VB Script
• Knowledge of principles on code quality, distributed applications, TDD & test automation, self-monitoring applications, refactoring and technical debt

A minimum of 5 years of experience in ASP.Net, MVC, Web Api, AngularJS, C# and SQL Server.

To contribute in the development of all Projects and Modules i.e. Project Documentation, web application development and business implementation.

To work with the internal teams to design, develop and maintain software.

Improve existing software.

Tech Stack :

    SWIFT, CORE DATA, CORE ANIMATION, CFNETWORK, UIKIT, MVVM, MVC FRAMEWORK.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Develop and Deploy advanced applications for the IOS platform.
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• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Bug fixing and improving application performance

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in iOS & hands-on exp in Swift.
• This position requires creative ability, detail-orientation, quick problem-solving skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven software development experience and IOS skills development.
• Proven working experience in IOS app development and Have published at least one original IOS app.
• Experience with Agile development methodology (preferably Scrum), continuous integration and tools (GIT, JIRA etc.)
• Strong Experience with Swift, Cocoa Touch, iOS, and iPhone/iPad applications.
• Proficiency in iOS application development using swift.
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, CFNetwork, UIKit etc.
• In-depth Understanding of Apples recommended design principles, interface guidelines.
• Must know about MVVM, also have experience in MVC Architecture.
• Good knowledge of Data Structures.Hands-on experience of development of iOS native app.
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notification.
• Must have experience with performance and memory tuning of complex Apps.
• Must have designed custom UIs apart from what Apple provides.
• UI development with Interface Builder and Code.
• Understanding of startup culture.
• Good team player, Quick learner.