SDET

• Budget: Management of budget for Hardware Asset Management tools, services and staffing (permanent and temporary)
• Talent management: Permanent, contract, temporary and graduate trainees
• Matrix management: Management of staff with Hardware Asset Management responsibility in other business units
• Lead third-party Hardware Asset Management resources: Supervisory responsibility for third-party resources supporting Hardware Asset Management activity
• Financial: Oversight of spending on technology asset support, which includes hardware, software, cloud services, support, maintenance and hardware disposal
• Environment: Endpoints and edge devices, software and service asset vendors, on-premises data center assets, and cloud services
• Other: Liability management and remediation tracking

The IT asset manager will:

• Ensure that appropriate resources (people, tools, services) and processes are in place to gather and analyze data relating to technology asset life cycles and related processes.
• Promote and advocate the value of Hardware Asset Management to various leaders. This includes developing and promoting effective Hardware Asset Management strategies, policy, approaches and practices across the full range of digital technology assets used within the organization.
• Identify and report on breaches of Hardware Asset Management policy, and track remedial action.
• Report on (or develop reporting on) remediation of digital technology asset-related risks and progress of optimization activity.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting, and that data completeness and quality issues are quickly identified and escalated to the responsible data or process owners.
• Gather data on and provide analysis of all activities that have an impact on the value, cost and risk of digital technology asset life cycles.
• Provide finance with the data to support the analysis of digital technology asset project and maintenance budgets and business cases.
• Assign responsibilities for sub disciplines, such as IT asset disposition (ITAD).
• Ensure that Hardware Asset Management -related tools and services are properly evaluated, selected, implemented, configured and maintained, with appropriate integration with other sources of organizational data.
• Provide access to technology asset data in support of essential activities required to support the effective running of the business.
• Manage the everyday functions of the core Hardware Asset Management team. This includes staffing, budgeting and other relevant management functions required to hold all IT and business stakeholders accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and benefit of digital technology assets throughout their life cycle.
• Managing the deployment and collection of devices and other hardware assets to the associates or offices.

The IT asset manager acts in a leadership role and must demonstrate the following leadership attributes:

• Strategic thinking — An understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to develop a vision and strategy for Hardware Asset Management and execute it effectively in order to drive results toward those objectives
• Interpersonal skills — Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels in a matrix management environment (as well as external vendors and service providers) to ensure that segregation and overlapping roles are identified and coordinated
• Strategic relationship management — Includes working with vendors during compliance audits
• Strategic vision — Ability to sense emerging needs and drive change as Hardware Asset Management develops and matures to meet organizational and technology challenges

The Hardware asset manager must have the following skills:

• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key business and technical concepts, and then effectively communicate these concepts with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to perform under pressure and to manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources
• Strong analytical, data processing and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in process formulation and improvement
• Ability to read and interrupt contracts to properly manage digital technology, which includes license and maintenance agreements
• Ability to manage the deployment and collection of devices and other hardware assets to the associates or offices in a large scale. Demonstrable experience of managing assets in hundreds of thousands will be required.

The Hardware asset manager must have in-depth knowledge and experience of the following:

• Technology asset life cycle (whether digital technology, information, financial or physical assets), best practice governance, tools and services
• Policy, process, and procedure development and implementation
• Technology contracts and their likely cost implications through the technology asset life cycle
• Engagement with sourcing, procurement and vendor management legal, tax and accountancy advisors for additional information
• Data processing, analysis and quality management tools
• Ability to manage effective deployment, collection and disposition of assets and managing the devices through its lifecycle

Additionally, an understanding of IT business continuity, cybersecurity, and integrated risk management and optimization methodologies is highly desirable, along with knowledge of IT management.

The following experience is considered essential:

• A management role, including engagement with sourcing, procurement and vendor management, business stakeholders and frontline operational IT staff
• Prior Hardware Asset Management roles (hardware or software) or demonstrable experience of working with IT asset management professionals to deliver Hardware Asset Management capability and improved business outcomes
• Atleast 16 years of experience with IT, enterprise asset management or information management
• Demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients
• Demonstrated experience in liaising with middle and senior management
• Experience with building business requirements for digital technology tools and services, developing business cases, and selecting solutions using RFP documentation and processes
• Experience leading system or tool implementations, with responsibility for verifying capabilities, outputs, dependencies and implementation scope
• Experience managing deployment, collection and disposition of assets in a large scale with globally distributed workforce.

The following experience is considered desirable, but not mandatory:

• 13+ years of experience working in the working in a large IT/ITeS organization
• 13+ years of experience in managing external IT service providers handling digital technology assets
• Experience with ServiceNow platform

This is a sensitive role dealing with commercial risks and significant costs. The organization must have a high level of confidence in the integrity and track record of the individual appointed to this role.

The following certifications are considered desirable, but not mandatory:

• ITIL v3 Foundation certification
• Certified IT Asset Manager
• COBIT 5 Foundation

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in finance, IT, engineering, business management or a related field
• Tertiary qualifications in financial accounting, project management or data analysis, or a legal or paralegal qualification that includes contract, copyright or intellectual property law are preferred

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

• Analyze, investigate & resolve bugs and technical issues faced by our merchants, partners and     customers.
• Communicate with end customers & merchants on technical issues over phone calls and get on remote sessions to solve their issues on time.
• Identify, scope out, and provide solutions for technical projects that may arise
• Build out technical documentation and knowledge base for users to access
• Be a liaison between our Support and Development teams
• Perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other members of the management team

Ideal Skills:

• 4+ years of work experience as software engineer
• Knowledge of PHP, SQL and hands on experience in ecommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, etc
• Knowledge of Javascript, HTML/CSS and ability to troubleshoot with browser’s tools
• Close attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy
• Strong self-starter attitude who doesn’t need direct supervision
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong desire to spot and resolve potential issues before they occur

Bonus Points:

• Experience providing product insights and resolving technical tickets
• Experience in startups
• Experience in an agile environment
• Coding bootcamp or technical degree is a plus
• Experience in a customer-facing or service role where you had to understand problems and provide solutions

About You

• A+ character. We are team-first here at company.
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
• An excellent communicator.
• Ownership. You aren’t afraid to take on new responsibilities and you act like an owner in everything you do.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Group Medical insurance
• Life and long term disability insurance
• Collaborative fun workspace
• The opportunity to join country’s fastest growing start-up alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

• Designing and developing interactively Adapting / Responsive web applications using best practices on ReactJs and the latest front-end technologies.

• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS, LESS / SASS.

• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful APIs.

• Participate in complex technical and design decisions for ReactJs projects.

• Ensuring high performance of applications (on mobile and desktop) and providing support.

• Work closely with design teams, development teams and testing teams.

• Coordinate team deliverables assuring Quality and Completeness.

• Unit Testing.

Technical Skills:

• Highly Skilled with proven experience in React 16+ and its State Management tools like Redux, styling framework like Material UI.

• Proficient in CSS, LESS / SASS, Semantic HTML, and writing cross-browser compatible code.

• Extensive experience using JavaScript/ Typescript, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, LESS/SASS, Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON, Gulp, Grunt etc.

• Good Knowledge in Rest APIs/ GraphQL.

• Experience in tools such as GIT / SourceTree / Bit Bucket, JIRA, Confluence, etc.

• Should have understanding of the agile methodology

• User should have basic knowledge on tools like Figma / Adobe XD and photoshop etc.

Nice to have:

• Nice to have knowledge in Angular, NextJs.

• Nice to have knowledge in Progressive Web Application (PWA), Service Worker and Web Worker, etc.

• Best practices for Website Accessibility (WCAG)

Personal Traits:

• Strong Verbal and Written communication skills, such as meeting facilitation, presentation and documentation

• Work day-to-day with development team, QA testing team, providing expert support to each as needed and appropriate.

• Lead and Coordination experience with critical thinker and good problem-solver.

Education Qualification

• UG: B. Tech / B.E. – Computers OR PG: MCA / M. Tech

Desired Candidate Profile

• Around 15 years of experience with at least 5 yrs of learning content reviewing
• Experience of working as a a Learning Content Head in a good ed-tech
• Ability to engage constructively with people
• Ability to manage a number of competing demands
• Excellent delegation skills
• Ability to develop your skills and seek advice from a variety of sources
• Good ambassadorial and diplomatic skills
• Willingness and ability to exercise judgment and take risks
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical skills    

• We run functional teams based on the SCRUM methodology and are a fairly Agile environment, with 2 week sprints and teams with a minimum of 2 developers (preferably 3) plus a Platform Owner.
• Sprints cannot be interrupted and work is planned out well in advance to keep stress down to a minimum.

• Line by line code reviews for every pull request on Gitlab maintains code quality and keep everyone in the loop & learning.
• At least 2 people working together on every project (collaborating not pairing)

• Kotlin is strongly preferred
• Experience with clean architecture and MVVM
• Experience with Jetpack Libraries ( Navigation, Paging, Room, Data Binding)
• Experience with Dependency Injections (Dagger2)
• Experience with Rx Java, Rx Android & Co-routines
• Practical understanding of Continuous Integration and Delivery

• A resume in pdf format. Include into your resume the links to software, mobile apps,

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the organization.
• Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes.
• Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams.
• Working on your own applications which will be used internally.
• Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start).
• Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company.
• Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry events.
• Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening.
• Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices.

Requirements:

• 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing amounts of traffic and new product requirements.
• Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills.
• Experience managing complex systems at scale.
• Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions.
• Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart metrics and alerting.
• Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch).
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working on linux based servers.
• Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
• Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash.
• Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch.
• Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins.
• Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage.
• Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu.

Good to have:

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
• Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
• Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka, Elasticsearch.

• Able to develop original and absolutely unique good quality content.
• Write content for articles, blogs, Websites, etc as per the requirement
• Proofread and edit blog posts before publication.
• Find and develop new ideas for the creation of high-quality content.
• Reviewing and editing articles.
• Conduct research and writing content on a regular basis.
• Convert ideas into enriching write-ups for websites, blogs, articles.
• Attention to detail.
• Promote content on social media
• Conduct simple keyword research and use SEO guidelines to increase web traffic

• Proven work experience as a Content Writer, Copywriter or similar role
• Portfolio of published articles
• Experience doing research using multiple sources
• Familiarity with web publications
• Excellent writing and editing skills in English
• Ability to meet deadlines