Senior Product Architect

As an IT Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in managing and leading a team of IT professionals. You will be responsible for providing technical guidance, overseeing project execution, and ensuring the successful delivery of IT solutions. Your expertise will be instrumental in driving innovation, implementing best practices, and maintaining a high level of technical excellence within the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership: Lead a team of IT professionals, including developers, engineers, and support staff. Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical expertise to ensure team members' growth and success. Foster a collaborative and positive work environment.

Technical Strategy and Planning: Develop and implement a strategic technical roadmap aligned with the organization's goals and objectives. Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends, and assess their applicability to the organization's IT infrastructure. Make recommendations for technology adoption or enhancements.

Project Management: Oversee the execution of IT projects, including resource allocation, task assignments, and timelines. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define project scope, and ensure successful project delivery. Monitor project progress, identify and mitigate risks, and resolve issues as they arise.

Technical Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert in various IT domains, such as software development, infrastructure management, cybersecurity, and data management. Stay informed about industry best practices and provide guidance on technical standards, frameworks, and methodologies. Conduct research and evaluation of new technologies to support business objectives.

Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, product managers, and other IT teams. Effectively communicate technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Foster strong relationships with external vendors and partners.

Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Assist in troubleshooting complex technical issues and provide guidance to team members in resolving them. Identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and develop preventive measures to avoid similar issues in the future. Ensure the timely resolution of critical incidents.

Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the IT department by identifying areas for optimization, streamlining processes, and implementing automation where applicable. Promote a culture of innovation, learning, and knowledge sharing within the team.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

Proven experience in a technical leadership role, managing and leading a team of IT professionals.

Strong technical background in one or more IT domains, such as software development, infrastructure management, cybersecurity, or data management.

In-depth knowledge of industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends.

Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.

Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, implement process improvements, and foster a culture of continuous learning.

We are looking are looking for talented and motivated campaign manager to lead and execute our various marketing campaigns. The successful candidate should have experience in managing digital and mass media (TV, Print, OOH, Radio etc.) marketing campaigns.

The campaign manager will work closely with work in collaboration with internal teams and external agencies to prepare and execute campaigns and measure and report on their effectiveness.

Responsibilities

· Develop, execute and manage marketing campaigns with the aim of customer acquisition or engagement

· Brief the various teams within marketing (such as creative, social media and digital) to ensure each campaign is forward planned and delivered on time

· Recruit and manage external agencies to execute marketing campaigns

· Devise campaign timelines and budget and ensure that the same is adhered to

· Ensure that the organisation’s brand and identity is adhered to in campaigns and in all communication channels

· Deliver regular reports of campaign results, including web analysis and evaluation of KPIs

Skills & Qualifications

· A master’s degree in Marketing, advertising or related fields.

· 1-3 years of related experience

· Understanding and past experience of executing campaigns across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, offline and print

· Exceptional project management and communication skills

· Solid understanding of current market trends

· Experience overseeing simultaneous campaigns

· Understanding and past experience creating integrated content across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, offline and print

• Key responsibility is to design and develop a data pipeline including the architecture, prototyping, and development of data extraction, transformation/processing, cleansing/standardizing, and loading in Data Warehouse at real-time/near the real-time frequency. Source data can be structured, semi-structured, and/or unstructured format.
• Provide technical expertise to design efficient data ingestion solutions to consolidate data from RDBMS, APIs, Messaging queues, weblogs, images, audios, documents, etc of  Enterprise Applications, SAAS applications, external 3rd party sites or APIs, etc through ETL/ELT, API integrations, Change Data Capture, Robotic Process Automation, Custom Python/Java Coding, etc
• Development of complex data transformation using Talend (BigData edition), Python/Java transformation in Talend, SQL/Python/Java UDXs, AWS S3, etc to load in OLAP Data Warehouse in Structured/Semi-structured form
• Development of data model and creating transformation logic to populate models for faster data consumption with simple SQL.
• Implementing automated Audit & Quality assurance checks in Data Pipeline
• Document & maintain data lineage to enable data governance
• Coordination with BIU, IT, and other stakeholders to provide best-in-class data pipeline solutions, exposing data via APIs, loading in down streams, No-SQL Databases, etc

Requirements

• Programming experience using Python / Java, to create functions / UDX
• Extensive technical experience with SQL on RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgresql etc) including code optimization techniques
• Strong ETL/ELT skillset using Talend BigData Edition. Experience in Talend CDC & MDM functionality will be an advantage.
• Experience & expertise in implementing complex data pipelines, including semi-structured & unstructured data processing
• Expertise to design efficient data ingestion solutions to consolidate data from RDBMS, APIs, Messaging queues, weblogs, images, audios, documents, etc of  Enterprise Applications, SAAS applications, external 3rd party sites or APIs, etc through ETL/ELT, API integrations, Change Data Capture, Robotic Process Automation, Custom Python/Java Coding, etc
• Good understanding & working experience in OLAP Data Warehousing solutions (Redshift, Synapse, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica, etc) and cloud-native Data Lake (S3, ADLS, BigQuery, etc) solutions
• Familiarity with AWS tool stack for Storage & Processing. Able to recommend the right tools/solutions available to address a technical problem
• Good knowledge of database performance and tuning, troubleshooting, query optimization, and tuning
• Good analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data to design and deliver meaningful information
• Good knowledge of Design, Development & Performance tuning of 3NF/Flat/Hybrid Data Model
• Know-how on any No-SQL DB (DynamoDB, MongoDB, CosmosDB, etc) will be an advantage.
• Ability to understand business functionality, processes, and flows
• Good combination of technical and interpersonal skills with strong written and verbal communication; detail-oriented with the ability to work independently

Functional knowledge

• Data Governance & Quality Assurance
• Distributed computing
• Linux
• Data structures and algorithm
• Unstructured Data Processing

We at Arcana(arcana.network) are looking for someone well versed with applied math and cryptography to help design our protocol and allied systems.

Specifically, we are looking for knowledge in a significant subset of the following:

1. Verifiable Delay Function(VDF) implementation
2. Distributed key generation(DKG) and management(DKMS)
3. Encryption schemes
4. Game theoretical (dis)incentivisation on a decentralized network
5. Distributed Random Number generation
6. End to End Encryption schemes
7. Zero Knowledge proofs
8. Verifiable computation

Academics and part time consultants also welcome to apply.