Senior Staff Engineer - Delivery

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As a Technical Program Manager you will be responsible for coordinating and driving to completion tech initiatives that span multiple teams (dashboard, web-app scanner, new scanners etc.). This role required a strong Business analytics background and a solid understanding of Golang/Python and Typescript to lead the engineering team on such initiatives

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders directly. During the first 6 months of your role, you will be closely orchestrating and leading the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective Tech Lead/Principal SDEs.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Technical Expertise:

• Specialize as the go-to person for one or more technologies and take initiative to learn new ones.
• Design and implement medium to large-sized features while reducing the system’s tech debt.
• Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Be hands-on with writing code, contributing a good amount of time with development tasks as required.
• Be like Yoda - the wise and learned mentor who guides others through challenges. If the engineering team is stuck, you should be able to step in, and show them how it's done.

Project Management:

• Lead and manage the full project lifecycle along with the Tech leads & engineers in ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, monitor progress, and report on project status to stakeholders.
• Own and improve SDLC best practices across the organization.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Effectively communicate project goals, timelines, and expectations to cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with development teams, product managers, leadership and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful project outcomes.
• Coordinate team members providing effective feedback and moderating discussions.

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies.
• Handle unexpected challenges with resilience and adaptability.

Ownership and Operations:

• Own the production operation, ensuring timely delivery of technical projects and monitoring system performance.
• Evolve the architecture to support future requirements and define its SLAs.

Leadership and Management:

• Act as an Engineering Manager when required, providing leadership and guidance to the team.
• Manage the team members’ career, expectations, performance, and level of happiness.
• Define the right processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.

Impact and Evolution:

• Make an impact on the whole tech organization/product engineer teams.
• Lead the 0->1 journey of upcoming products in the platform along with respective Tech Lead/Principal SDEs.

Quarterly Co-working:

• You would be expected to work for 1-2 weeks out of Bengaluru once every quarter depending on the requirements. Rest of the time will be fully remote.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in Program Management
• Strong product & program management background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable
• Strong organizational skill with the ability to prioritize and execute tasks across multiple projects with tight deadlines, aggressive goals, and ambiguity.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is preferred - helps you stand out 😉
• Knowledge of Golang, Python, TypeScript are preferred
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams, including mentoring and coaching team members.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience leading change in large-scale systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Certification in Project Management (e.g., PMP) is a plus.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits

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About Us:

Kapture Cx is an Enterprise-grade SaaS-based Customer Support Automation platform that provides businesses across industries with all-in-one customer service software. It's a cloud CRM that’s more than just a helpdesk designed to meet the needs of any industry. At Kapture, we believe that daily customer operations should be made simple and efficient to meet up with all the endless demands of customers.

Kapture is the preferred choice of leading brands including Nykaa, Meesho, Bigbasket, Unilever, Zepto, Ajio, Netmeds, Jio, Prestige and many others to build a world-class customer support ecosystem. Kapture Cx is headquartered in Bangalore and we have offices in Mumbai, Delhi/NCR and Florida. Our channel Partner network spans across 12 countries and powers 500+ businesses globally to automate their sales and support.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Project Manager / Implementation Manager to lead and oversee the successful implementation of our SaaS CRM solution for our B2B customers. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of the implementation process, including team handling and people management, to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Key Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in an IT services / Software product company with B2B SAAS implementation. 
• Strong project management skills with a proven track record of successfully managing complex software implementation projects, preferably in the SaaS CRM domain.
• Excellent leadership abilities to effectively manage and motivate cross-functional teams throughout the implementation lifecycle, including team handling and people management experience.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of B2B customer needs and challenges related to CRM systems.
• Proficient in utilizing project management tools and methodologies to plan, track, and report on project progress.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and internal teams, ensuring clear and consistent communication throughout the implementation process.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address project risks and issues proactively.
• Strong customer focus with the ability to build strong relationships, understand customer requirements, and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead and manage end-to-end implementation projects of our SaaS CRM solution for B2B customers, ensuring successful delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.
2. Build and manage a high-performing implementation team, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to team members, and fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
3. Collaborate with sales and pre-sales teams to understand customer requirements and create project implementation plans that align with customer expectations and business objectives.
4. Develop and maintain project schedules, work breakdown structures, and resource allocation plans to effectively manage project timelines and resources, including team members' workloads and assignments.
5. Define project deliverables, milestones, and success criteria, and monitor progress against these throughout the implementation process.
6. Manage project risks and issues, proactively identify potential obstacles and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes.
7. Coordinate and communicate with cross-functional teams, including development, testing, quality assurance, and customer support, to ensure seamless integration and alignment during the implementation process.
8. Conduct regular project status meetings, providing updates to stakeholders and customers on project progress, risks, and issues.
9. Ensure a high level of customer satisfaction by managing customer expectations, addressing concerns, and providing timely and effective solutions.
10. Contribute to the continuous improvement of implementation processes, tools, and methodologies, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for monitoring project deliverables on day to day basis 
• Required to update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project's progress. 
• Assist, train, and ensure project team members with tasks that you have assigned to them. 
• Test the product modules and manage the change request, bug reports, etc. 
• Assist project managers in the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and progress reports. 
• Facilitate communication between intern stakeholders, clients, vendors, and management. 

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience. 
• 3+ years of relevant Project Management experience. 
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills for documentation, user stories, etc. 
• Proficient in MS Excel, and Presentation. Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and Notion is a plus. 
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills. 
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• Ability to work well in a team environment. 
• Experience with project management tools and software. 
• Ability to identify project risks and issues, and develop mitigation plans.

RESPONSIBILITY

·        Determine and define project scope and objectives

·        Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner

·        Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements

·        Track project costs in order to meet budget

·        Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan

·        Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress

·        Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables

·        Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution

·        Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed

·        Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement

Requirements

·        4 years of Project Management and related experience

·        Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred

·        Proven ability to solve problems creatively

·        Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices

·        Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle

·        Good analytical skills

·        Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful

·        Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, and timeline

Amagi Media Labs is rapidly disrupting the TV broadcasting Industry as we know it. Founded in 2008, Amagi is now the largest TV AD Network with over 30 million advertising seconds and more than 400 TV channels working on Amagi’s Cloud Infrastructure and managed playout servers. To know more about what Amagi does please visit http://www.amagi.com">www.amagi.com

Technical Program Manager Job Description

Amagi is looking to expand its project/program management team responsible for managing end to end development and delivery of various ongoing software development programs and initiatives within Amagi. We are looking for people who are process oriented, have a strong technology background, who have experience in executing and managing large software projects in the past. The software development projects under execution are largely in the intersection of media and cloud technology domains. 

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of multiple short term and long term product development and delivery initiatives for Amagi's key products 
• Working closely with cross-functional teams like engineering, product, quality assurance, operations and customer success teams.
• Articulating and defining program milestones for  successful and timebound completion of initiatives by developing project plans in collaboration with all the stakeholders. 
• Identifying and resolving process bottlenecks, dependencies and related challenges
• Enterprise program management : Apart from standard product offerings, for enterprise customers, Amagi offers tighter integration and customization of their workflows over the core product offerings.  In this role you one manage end to end onboarding and going live for such enterprise customers.  This involves 
• Working with pre-sales/sales/onboarding/customer to get the requirements
• Prepare a detailed project plan & track it across teams; keep the stakeholders (Sales, ONB, Customer) updated on status and milestones
• Work with Enterprise Engagement Team in Broadcast Engineering closely to deliver according to the plan
• Get the customer trained on the platform before going live
• Formally hand off to support once the customer has gone live

• Create, publish and maintain well organised, comprehensive data and information about the initiatives to enable organization wide transparency and reporting
• Developing dashboards and success metrics to provide visibility to various stakeholders.  
• Ensuring consistent and clear status reporting 
• Prepare presentations and provide supporting data as needed

• Managing one or more programs involving product development initiatives belonging to various categories, like 
• Cutting edge cloud technology intensive SaaS products
• Software solution involving media technology (eg, audio/video streaming) 
• Web frontend and backend related products (built on latest web frameworks)

• Setting up processes, actively participating in improving and maintaining processes for product development and delivery initiatives to enable efficiency across organization
• Based on agile methodologies and project management best practices
• Training and evangelizing the participating teams on agile processes

• Managing executive stakeholders
• Helping the program management team as a whole to publish metrics, dashboards to bring visibility of various programs to the executive team.
• Helping the executive team to take directional calls on new and ongoing programs.  

Desired Skills and Experience

We'll need you to have a good foundation for establishing technical and non-technical enablement needs for internal and external teams.

Required Skills: 

• Communication skills: The candidate must be good at business communication, good at using all modern tools at disposal, be able to organize and lead meetings as and when required. 
• Technical Knowledge: The candidate must have a strong technical background and must be well aware of software engineering technology stacks popularly used in technology heavy companies. The candidate must be able to write and present tech heavy documentation.
• Process Knowledge: The candidate must have experience in running process oriented programs and projects, must have knowledge of agile frameworks, and should be able to set up agile processes for existing and new product development initiatives. 
• Data driven acumen: The candidate must be able to do qualitative and quantitative analysis on available data and metrics to take up calls and set directions for the team.
• Relationship management: The candidate must be able to maintain a good working relationship with various cross functional team members and key stakeholders.

Required Experience:

• Experience in running scrum ceremonies and managing related artifacts
• Hands on experience in project management tools (e.g. Jira)
• Domain experience: Prior experience in media technologies like OTT, audio/video technologies, AWS/GCP cloud based application or web application development

Formal Qualifications:

• Certifications (Preferable):  Agile certifications - CSM® / PMI-ACP® / SaFE® 
• Preferred Work Experience: 2 - 5 years 
• Enterprise Program managers: 5-7 years in Project/Program management
• Educational Qualifications: BE/BTech + MBA (From Tier I/II institutes) 

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to managing end-to-end implementation project life cycle, driving optimization of operating models 
• Determine Project Scope, Objectives and Dependencies
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule, work plan and key milestones
• Determine and Define Project Resource Allocations
• Manage Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies on Project by assigning appropriate ownership and escalations
• Capture project health metrics, maintaining a central repository for all projects and project information that provide insights into processes and frameworks that work 
• Establish and execute Project Governances viz., Steerco Meetings, Weekly Cadences and Track Action Items to closure
• Conduct governance calls for ongoing projects and ensuring project commitments are being met by Darwinbox’s implementation team as well as the Client’s implementation team 
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Collaborate with Client on requirement changes and initiate change management process
•  Identify, document and update the project scope for changes
• Initiate appropriate review and approvals on the changes
• Evaluate and analyze the impact of changes and communicate with stakeholders
• Seek approvals and commitments on the scope, cost and schedule
• Ensure SOP adherence, time-logging, effectively making use/ driving adoption of Project Management tools and methodologies 
• Review/prepare Project Plans for implementation projects and monitor resource allocation 
• Identify Stakeholder Communication Requirements on project performance metrics
• Collaborate with Product Teams on Product enhancements
• Document impact and prioritize changes to Product Backlog and timelines
• Stakeholder Reporting - Preparing status reports, highlighting risks to the project timelines, proactively escalating potential red flags, and recommending mitigation solutions 
• Track Project Closure / Handover activities to downstream teams. 

General Requirements: 

• B. Tech or an equivalent degree 
• MBA or an equivalent degree is preferred but not mandatory 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to work under pressure and adaptable to change 
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills 
• Proficiency in MS Office tool.
• Any experience in MS SharePoint, MS Power Automate, Excel Macros, and Project Management Tools like JIRA, and Zoho Projects is an added advantage 
• Any Project Management (PMP/ Prince2/Agile CSM) or Agile certification is mandatory 

•  8-10 years of prior experience in a project management role is preferred with strong experience in HRMS implementation.

Experience: 8+ years

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Ahmedabad

Technical project manager act as the primary point of contact for our clients. You will ensure teams are successful in their delivery through proven technical and interpersonal abilities. In this role, you will bring a strategic mindset to projects and ensure top-quality results from the team.

What we offer

• Open, positive, and learning culture surrounded with tech-savvy and helpful colleagues with a growth mindset
• Best-in-industry salary standards
• 5 days work week
• Family health insurance cover
• No politics and value-driven culture 
• Occasional Work From Home even in non-COVID19 times
• Contribute to large scale distributed systems used by fortune 100 companies

Must have

• 4+ years of development experience (preferably Java)
• 2+ years of experience in Agile project management (or a scrum master) and leading development and QA teams
• Experience working with off-shore clients (US/EU) with strong knowledge of Agile & SCRUM processes
• Provide effective mentoring & coaching on technical, soft skills, and process aspects to the team
• People orientated approach to leadership that keeps the team motivated and focused on the goals
• Strong communication and management skills with the ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems
• Hands-on approach to technical problem solving and debugging

• Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership

Good to have

• Frontend development experience with CSS, JavaScript (ES6) or modern JS frameworks like AngularJS/React/VueJS
• Performance optimization experience with SQL
• Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr, NOSQL, messaging system
• Prior experience working as a tech lead, team lead or software architect

Roles and Responsibilities

• Actively participating in client calls for requirement grooming and designing
• Participate in design discussions with fellow team members and client
• Present groomed tickets and design to team members for design discussion
• Lead Scrum meetings and provide team support during sprint planning and execution.
• Ensure project processes (e.g. code reviews, QA, deployment reviews) are followed religiously
• Identify individual and team strength and improvement areas
• Build strong rapport with team members to understand them deeply at the individual level
• Set quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs) for individuals
• Conduct performance review meetings
• Mentor junior team members, level them up and inspire to deliver extraordinary impact together

• Improve software development operations by proactively finding gaps in processes

• Build a trusting relationship with customers and teams

• Negotiate and get buy-in of sprint scope from customers & team

• Come up with pragmatic solutions to improve software quality and drive the change if approved by the customer.

• Manage KPIs & rigorous feedback cycles (through one-on-one meetings with peers) that help align with individual and organization growth.

Join us for building great teams and intuitive projects together!

We're looking for someone having 2-3 years of total work experience with strong managerial and leadership skills. The coordinator will be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of web and mobile development projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.

**Responsibilities**

• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and within budget.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.
• Drive mobile application product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Supervise the development, bug-fixes and upgrades of web application projects.
• Keep your knowledge and the company’s products up to date with the latest web industry trends.
• Report problems and escalate to management as needed.
• Coordinate with developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the applications.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Plan and oversee the preparation and dissemination of project communications.
• Create learning opportunities within the development team through training, conferences, hands-on training and mentorship in projects.
• Oversee recruitment of new team members when required.
• Maintain and develop relationships with existing customers and reach out to potential customers for new business.
• Screen potential business deals by analyzing requirements, financials and market strategies.

    **Skills**

• Must have a good professional background in coding.
• Must have knowledge of Web, iOS and Android development technologies.
• Must have strong leadership and team management qualities.
• Must have strong management and organizational skills.
• Must have good analytical and troubleshooting skills with end-users / customers.
• Must have competitive intelligence.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be resourceful, innovative, self-motivated, and confident in high-stress situations.

Perks and Benefits

The company provided meals, Medical Insurance and other perks.