Senior Data Architect

·      Identifying opportunities in target markets for your organization’s products and services

·      Generating leads through cold calling prospective clients or networking at trade shows

·      Developing and nurturing relationships with key customer accounts

·      Keeping up with the latest industry developments, including market positioning of corporate competitors

·      Assessing client needs and the company’s ability to meet those needs

·      Following up with new leads and referrals generated from the sales team

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field.
• Experience in sales, marketing or related field.
• Strong communication skills and IT fluency.
• Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty.

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Given our business model, where our customers pay us over time, Customer experience is absolutely vital to our long-term profitability. We will not be successful unless our customers are receiving massive value from our service. As such, we need a leader to own driving success for our customers. This role includes responsibilities for Customer experience, retention and Customer Success (e.g., onboarding, support, services, adoption, advocacy, retention, etc.)

• Drive Customer Experience Outcomes
• Define and Optimize Customer Lifecycle
• Manage Customer Experience Activities
• Measure the Effectiveness of Customer Experience processes
• Build a World-class Team
• Inspire Customer Success Across Company

Requirements -

• 1-4 years experience in leading customer-facing organizations
• Ability to manage influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
• Ideally combined background in E-commerce or Saas industries
• Strong empathy for customers AND passion for revenue and growth
• Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
• Analytical and process-oriented mindset
• Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
• Enthusiastic and creative personality with the ability to inspire others
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

A Technical Delivery Manager/Project Manager is required to join the team that will be delivering a large-scale business initiative.

The role is accountable for the technical delivery of a large-scale technical transformation project focusing on upgrading the network fabric of our key data centres. Delivery teams are located in various locations around the globe. 

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Workstream Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall workstream plans and roadmaps
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management – Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Leadership – Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QA and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Team performance - Work closely with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QA to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making – sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance – Manage any workstream technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting – Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI’s and OKR’s for your teams
• Communication - Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting – Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

• Experience in running scaled agile teams
• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
• Experience of setting up and working on a Greenfield Programme of work
• Proven experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• A software delivery background would be highly beneficial due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Key Stakeholders

• Workstream Lead
• PMO
• Scrum Masters/Scrum of Scrums
• Other Delivery Managers for dependencies
• Development leads
• QA Lead
• Product Owners
• Business Sponsors
• Lead BA
• Lead Solutions architects
• Service (Release to BAU)

• Develop scalable, secured, and efficient backend for the website, mobile app, and browser extension.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across related applications
• API development for mobile app, browser extension, web
• Design and maintain a database
• Develop components of the database such as storage, queries, and triggers
• Create reusable, effective, and scalable PHP code
• Implement security and data protection measures
• Integration of payment gateway, third-party services via API
• Source code management using bit bucket/git
• Using/creating packages for reusability across the products
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields or Masters, from a premier college
• 2 to 6 years overall software development experience
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Ability to work with an agile mindset
• Having a polyglot mindset to think beyond one programming language/framework to choose the right tech stack for the right problem and exhibit learnability to pick up new technologies
• Proven working experience in Java development/Python development with reasonable exposure to Python/Java respectively or willingness to learn Python/Java
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms/Python Frameworks
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Good Understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms
• Hands on multi-threading
• Experience in the Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (e.g. JDBC, JPA2, Hibernate, Django ORM)
• Experience with test-driven development