Solution Architect

• Job Title - VP of Casual Mobile Games
• Reports Into - COO
• Location - Hybrid/ Bangalore

A Little Bit About Kwalee.

Kwalee is one of the worlds leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 1 billion downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Lets Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join Scathe, Die by the Blade, Robobeat, Space Chef and Wildmender.

Whats In It For You?

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win
• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - weve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars
• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays!

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As our VP of Casual Mobile Games, youll have executive accountability for free to play game design and publication, from game inception through testing and launch, to live operations. Youll build and manage a brilliant team of free to play casual mobile gaming experts, working closely with other departments to maximise the commercial success of our games and company. Youll maintain Kwalee’s position as a leading mobile game publisher and build capability such that Kwalee develops its position as a leading producer of F2P casual mobiles games.

Your Team Mates

The Casual Games team is a global crew whose passion for our products drive us to craft first-class gaming experiences the best we can. This goes double for gameplay, aesthetics, and marketing. We're entrepreneurial in spirit and have a collaborative mindset, so your voice is always heard.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Be an advocate of our games by playing them and promoting them. Research competitor products to further our understanding of what success looks like across the gaming industry.
• Directly build and manage an expert, multidisciplinary, high-quality team in the fields of design, production, and analysis.
• Proactively seek out new ideas and concepts for games. Devise and oversee initiatives to promote creativity, innovation, and inventiveness that will keep our catalogue fresh and profitable.
• Define and manage the processes of building, testing and launching mobile F2P / casual games for both internal and third party games.
• Define and manage the processes to support games post launch and in live operations.
• Maintain high standards of quality control to ensure games meet the highest standard of quality, playability and commercial viability.
• Create game launch strategies that maximise impact and longevity across a variety of platforms and devices.
• Establish, build and maintain positive and productive working relationships with all internal teams and departments, as well as external developers, partners and other stakeholders. Work closely with department heads to ensure team members are performing optimally and provide coaching and mentoring when needed.
• Ensure the operational efficiency of the team is maintained through the use of best practice management processes, tools, and organisational design.
• Adopt a data driven approach, closely monitoring the collation and analysis of game related data to support decision making in the game selection, development, launch and marketing processes.
• Adopt an experimental approach to seek out new methods and channels to help keep our team one step ahead of the competition. Keep abreast of the latest techniques in use across the industry.
• Define and manage robust revenue forecast processes linked to game launch windows, ultimately smoothing revenue peaks and troughs through best practice work stack management.
• Champion a commercially focused work methodology aimed at the driving the best value for the business, maintaining excellent cost control, driving increasing revenues, and maximising profit.
• Report to the COO all relevant matters that affect your job and work.
• Fully comply with the company’s procedures, processes, strategies and tactics as may be issued from time to time.
• Ad-hoc other tasks which may arise from time to time and be assigned to you by either the COO or the CEO.

Your Hard Skills

• Deep casual gaming experience. Experience of building and running successful free-to-play casual games. In-depth understanding of standard mobile game full product cycle including standard KPIs, product management, live operations, marketing, etc.
• Entrepreneurial approach, hand-on, results driven, and commercial. Ideally will have run own business or been a significant contributor in a start-up or similar. Comfortable working as part of a matrix-management team.
• Production driven approach, with experience of task and work stack management to achieve deadlines and launch dates.
• A wide range of experience across the mobile game development process
• Experience of successfully launching games to market
• A track record of managing games from creation through to launch and beyond.
• Experience of running live ops on free to play games
• Analytical mindset with experience of using data analysis to inform decisions
• Experience working with diverse internal and external teams

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues.

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France.

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Key Requirements: 

·  Providing technical support to sales team and ensure their success 

·   Should be able to prepare the technical BOM, RFPs/ RFQs depending on the exact need of the customer 

·   Be comfortable engaging at all levels within customers and OEM organizations 

·   Translate customer requirements and IT strategies into deliverable solutions and transformation plan 

·   Architect solutions to meet the unique requirements of Shro emerging customers and deliver proof of   concepts (POCs) and pilot implementations for HCI, Storage Solution, Backup solutions, and virtualization solutions portfolio 

·  Learn new technologies and apply these concepts to customer needs 

·  Define value propositions, positioning and differentiation to competitor’s solutions in addressing customer pain points. 

·  Define and drive a programmatic pre-sales consulting engagement approach into target accounts and territories. 

·  Complete the technical requirement for request for information (RFI) and request for proposal (RFP) 

·  Support and develop existing customer and partner relationships and skills 

·   Excellent communication and presentation skills over phone, email, webcast, video and public conference. 

·   Should have extreme passion for Technology 

·   Should be a quick learner & should have the ability to adapt new technical skills 

Experience & Technical Skills 

·  More than 5 years’ experience in pre-sales capacity, consultant role with customer focus, or equivalent experience 

·  Excellent communication and presentation skills over phone, email, webcast, video and public conference 

·  Strong technical knowledge in HPE HCI Solution, Virtualization Technologies VMware, Hyper-V, Strong technical knowledge in Storage Management System of HPE, NetAPP,  

·  Experience with Backup Technology Tape Based & Disk Based solutions 

·  Experience with designing Backup Application Software like Veritas, Symantec, Commvault 

·  Hands-On experience of Hypervisors like VMware & HyperV. Backup tools like Veritas & CommVault;  

·  Hands on experience of HPE Server & Storage product line. 

·  Experience of configuration tool like HPE OCA tool   

Technical Certification 

· HPE Server Storage ASE, MASE Certification  

·  VMware Certified Professional 

·  Certifications – in Virtualization, Backup solution, Servers & Storage Consolidation 

Job title: Technical PM & Solution Architect - Digital Acceleration

Responsibilities:
• Lead Upfront discovery and design for end to end technology architecture (E.g. though not limited to Web, Mobile, CRM, Inventory management, Customer management, Logistics),
• Defining, translating and delivering business vision for the digital journey the organization will be undertaking
• Actively lead the definition and evolution of the solution architecture
• oversee selection/ implementation of new components/applications,
• Identify and ensure all integration touch points of the applications,
• Enhance architecture / governance processes and drive agile innovation with an eye to scale.
• Create a Service oriented architecture
• Leading the technical design process coordinating the various stakeholders towards an agreed solution.
• Providing support to program manager through developing estimates, and dependencies to meet program outcomes.
• Lead technology consulting engagements, solution workshops and due diligence
• Determine the availability and viability of third-party components and services as needed
• Develop and demonstrate proof of concepts
• Maintain the overall portfolio plan with key deliverables and milestone dates. Plan and execute the roadmap for digital.
• Act as a conduit between execs and stakeholders to ensure the technology initiatives are appropriately prioritized and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Serve as a liaison between functional groups within the Technology Team to prioritize program initiatives and escalate critical operational tasks.
• Drive the successful delivery of Digital programs within the Digital portfolio
• Managing multiple Vendor/partner Projects

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Systems, Engineering or similar combination of Business and Technology
• Minimum 7 years' experience in the B2C Companies with Design and architect experience
• 5 years of experience planning and deploying delivering enterprise functional and technical solutions to support the business
• Agile/Scrum Software Development methodologies. Knowledge of project management tools...
• Being an agent for change, who uses business architecture to agitate and initiate action and challenge others via business designs and solutions, which drive requirements to the business operational and organizational structures
• Strong Architecture experience including, infrastructure, applications, data and business domains, Retail domain knowledge would an added advantage
• Experience at producing multi-tier, high-availability infrastructure architectures in an enterprise & cloud environment adhering to DR, Business Continuity and availability best practice.
• Experience in the following areas: customer engagement platforms, cloud architectures, PaaS services, API integration, modern application architectures, BI architecture
• Ability to quickly understand business requirements and propose reference architectures and technology solutions. Capable to present options and weigh implementation complexities and risks to recommend the right technical decision
• Experience in web-based and mobile based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture, as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints  

• Maintain, drive, monitor, and put in place dependable technological standards, systems, and procedures.
• With a high degree of skill and understanding, influence technology plans and choices.
• Provide guidance and help to ensure that necessary legislation specifications and standards are followed.
• Lead a team of product developers and handle training requirements as needed.
• Coordinate product testing on a regular basis to identify flaws and offer feedback in order to improve them.
• Assist clients with technical concerns as a key contact.
• Ascertain if the firm has adequate resources, including staff, materials, and equipment.
• Development, execution, and progress are all reported to management.
• Working with development teams and departments, as well as taking user feedback into account.
• Managing support teams and monitoring performance indicators are two of my responsibilities.
• Assuring timely and cost-effective delivery of products and services.
• Managing software and hardware updates and installs.
• Keeping the computer network infrastructure up to date and secure.

In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with all of the AWS services and other similar cloud  services

Strong knowledge of core architectural concepts including distributed computing , scalability,  availability, and performance to recommend the best backend solutions for our products

Preferred AWS Certifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional/Associate AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate AWS Developer Associate

Key Skills

• ITCAN is looking for an AWS Solution Architect who will be responsible for development of scalable, optimized, and reliable backend solutions using AWS services for all our products. You will ensure that our products consume AWS services in the mast effective methods. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse requirements and devise innovative, efficient, and cost-effective architecture using AWS components and services that ensure scalability, availability and high- performance.
• Develop automation and deployment utilities using Ruby, Bash and Shell scripting and implementing
• CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Code Deploy, Git, Code Pipeline, Code Commit etc. To ensure seamless  deployment with no downtime.
• Redesign architectures end Lo-end seamlessly by working through major software upgrades such as Apache.
• Ensure an always-running network with the ability to set up redundant DNS systems with failover capabilities.
• Ensure the AWS services consumed are aligned with best practices to ensure higher availability and security along with optimal cost utilization.
• Using AWS-managed services, implement ELK systems end-to-end.