We are looking for a passionate Solutions Architect with a diverse backend technology background to lead large engineering teams at Simform. You should have a good understanding of software architecture design, backend technologies, and cloud platforms and have experience leading a team of developers.
Role + Responsibilities:
- Designing, modifying, and testing technical architecture.
- Helping project teams with solutions architecture, troubleshooting, and technical implementation assistance.
- Occasionally working as a Tech Lead if the situation demands
- Use your expertise in different tech-stack/languages, tech architecture, etc., to drive improvements in the accuracy, quality, the efficiency of projects.
- Advocating for process improvements and helping develop solutions.
- Providing technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle.
- Oversee project teams' work and provide assistance for any troubleshooting or technical implementation guidance.
- Ensure standards and best practices are implemented and practiced by large cross-technical teams.
Person Specification and Qualifications:
- Technical background with over 10 years dabbling into multiple technologies and grasping crux of them.
- Significant hands-on experience with Node/Python
- Experience in building reliable, robust, secure, and high-performance in-production software systems with a large user base.
- Strong understanding of Cloud (Preferably AWS) and conceptual understanding of CI/CD, and DevOps.
- Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
- Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the “big picture” view
- Exposure and expertise in design patterns and software design patterns in general
About Simform
We’re a digital product engineering and IT talent solutions company that aims to solve complex software engineering problems. We have helped organizations ranging from Startups that went public to Fortune 500 companies and WHO-backed NGOs. Since 2010, our team of 1000+ experts has helped businesses elevate their value through our engineering services.
Simform helps companies become innovation leaders by delivering software solutions.
We help you - choose the right technologies to invest in, decide on the best architecture and processes to follow, and oversee the successful delivery of their software projects.
Services:
Digital Product Engineering
- Product engineering
- Application modernization
- Digital experience design
- Data engineering
- Blockchain engineering
Talent Solutions
- Managed team extension
- Smarter IT outsourcing
- Agile teams on-demand
- CTO as a service
Technology Practices
- Project strategy
- Process management
- Technology partnerships
- Software testing
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Hiring for the position of Technical Manager responsible for Backend and infrastructure for mobile app and website.
Role
● Talented Leader who will be responsible for Leading a group of talented technical individuals to build scalable, and secure products
● Leads our Back-End and infrastructure
● Drives architecture and the design of enterprise mobile/web/API solutions at scale
● Work with Product, Testing and Infrastructure teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Oversee the development and execution of development plans and report on execution
● Work with Product and testing teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Has deep exposure to all aspects of engineering, modern web, desktop & mobile application architectures, data modelling, high level design, low level design, non-functional technical requirements and visual design
Requirement
● 8+ years of experience in hard core development in predominantly product development companies
● Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills
● Proven track record of building scalable and reliable services on Cloud
● Architecture & Design
● Solid experience of designing end-to-end architecture and design of applications using one or more platforms for large-scale high-throughput solutions
● Design and implement technical governance process as appropriate across the application development lifecycle
● coding guidelines, quality standards, best practices, code acceptance criteria, automation
● Experience in collaborating with the team in reviewing application architecture. - Node.js, Web Services REST, MySQL/MongoDB/NoSQL
Education: Engineering/MBA
Job Responsibilities:
1. Develop/debug applications using Python.
2. Improve code quality and code coverage for existing or new program.
3. Deploy and Integrate the Machine Learning models.
4. Test and validate the deployments.
5. ML Ops function.
Technical Skills
1. Graduate in Engineering or Technology with strong academic credentials
2. 4 to 8 years of experience as a Python developer.
3. Excellent understanding of SDLC processes
4. Strong knowledge of Unit testing, code quality improvement
5. Cloud based deployment and integration of applications/micro services.
6. Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra
7. Strong applied statistics skills
8. Knowledge of creating CI/CD pipelines and touchless deployment.
9. Knowledge about API, Data Engineering techniques.
10. AWS
11. Knowledge of Machine Learning and Large Language Model.
Nice to Have
1. Exposure to financial research domain
2. Experience with JIRA, Confluence
3. Understanding of scrum and Agile methodologies
4. Experience with data visualization tools, such as Grafana, GGplot, etc
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead and grow a world-class Ad Engineering team through mentorship and guidance and career development
Lead partnerships with Product Engineering, define interfaces with 3rd party direct integrators, and Data Engineering teams to find the optimal way to scale the Ad Platform
Collaborate with other Engineering and Product teams to ensure high degree of alignment, ruthless prioritization, timely releases of features in support of critical company initiatives
Constantly strive to improve the efficiency of our existing systems while pursuing transformative technologies that impacts the Platform’s performance
Work closely with Recruiting to expand the team, including sourcing candidates,
interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events and on-boarding new employees
Develop and drive long-term strategies around utilizing ecosystem, including the Ads system as/when relevant
REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field
4+ years experience leading and managing teams within an engineering organization
2+ years leading and managing Ad Systems
Superb communication and interpersonal skills
Excellent presentation skills
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.
Job Location: Chennai
Condé Nast is looking for a Project Manager - Product Operations who has proven
experience in project management and the ability to lead projects across various
teams. We are looking for a creative and dedicated individual who will fit with our
collaborative culture. You will be working closely across teams to ensure that all
project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track.
Primary Responsibilities
● Become a subject matter expert on experience with customer
segmentation, profiling, merchandising and targeting
● Produce high-level product requirements, iterate with design and
engineering teams.
● Engage and coordinate across teams to maintain product and strategy
alignment.•
● Manage the roadmap, prioritize product opportunities, refine feature ideas and
maintain existing features to drive business goals.
● Communicate project status, key issues and decisions, coordinate meetings
through the project lifecycle with appropriate business units and stakeholders
● Ensure delivery happen on time
● Focus on continual improvement and innovation through retrospective
Desired Skills & Qualification
● 6 to 8 years Project Management experience
● 1+ years of work experience in digital marketing / brand marketing
/ performance marketing in a consumer-centric business
● PMP certified
● A proven track record of working with engineers, and various stakeholders
to coordinate,plan, execute, and track product releases end to end.
● Experience managing data projects and online web applications
● Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives at the same time
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Strong problem solving skills and willingness to think outside the box and roll
up one’s sleeves to get the job done
● Familiarity with agile software development methodologies.
● Proven ability to create clear, detailed, concise documentation -
Business Requirement, stories,
● Status reports, roadmaps, charts, etc. (please include samples)
● Proficient with one or more PM and Roadmap tools such as MS Project,
Jira, ProdPad, as well as MS Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and Word
● Experience and interest in media, publishing, and / or a related industry is a
plus
● Knowledge of UAT and QA/QC processes is an added advantage
● Strong understanding of technologies (Python, JS, Java, Cloud services, etc.) is
a plus
● Bachelor’s degree in business or information technology preferred.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST GLOBAL
Condé Nast is a global media house with over a century of distinguished publishing
history. With a portfolio of iconic brands like Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker
and Bon Appétit, we at Condé Nast aim to tell powerful, compelling stories of
communities, culture and the contemporary world. Our operations are headquartered
in New York and London, with colleagues and collaborators in 32 markets across the
world, including France, Germany, India, China, Japan, Spain, Italy, Russia, Mexico, and
Latin America.
Condé Nast has been raising the industry standards and setting records for excellence
in the publishing space. Today, our brands reach over 1 billion people in print, online,
video, and social media.
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and
social platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made
the right move to invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new
Data team entirely dedicated to data processing, engineering, analytics, and
visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel process innovation, further
content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team aimed to create a
company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an environment
where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London.
The team at Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands'
digital capabilities and boost online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups,
Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data Science, and Operations (including Product
and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data Strategy and monetization. The
teams-built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions for better
audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create
diverse forms of self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and
celebrate the extraordinary. We are a media company for the future, with a remarkable
past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.
Responsible for preparing, conducting, and evaluating technical training programs. Writes literature and materials to be used in programs and designs exercises to enhance learning experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical training to professional personnel.
- Develop innovative and easy-to-understand training materials.logistics and tools.
- Meet organizational training needs.
- Organize instructor-led training programs.
- Prepare training schedules and programs for personnel.
- Analyze learning needs and develop appropriate training material.
- Interact with respective departments in scheduling training programs.
Requirements
- Experience in delivering technical training.
- Top-notch administrative, research and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to host training workshops for new hires.
- Knack for detecting and removing barriers to learning.
- Strong knowledge of PHP, Python, Javascript, MySQL, NoSQL, Data Structures, Algorithms
Experience
2-3 years of experience of relevant experience is preferred.
What you will do:
- Customer Oriented: Being obsessed with providing the highest quality product and experience to the customer.
- A Go-Getter: Being a highly driven individual who goes that extra mile to deliver an outstanding product to the business team.
- Analytical and a Problem Solver: Understanding the needs and requirements and accordingly conceptualizing and designing solutions for the problems.
- Data Driven: Maintaining a track record of data driven decision making
- Adaptable: Demonstrating the ability to work in a fast paced and hyper-growth environment where the requirements are constantly changing.
- A Technology Geek: Being fanatical about technology and always on the look-out for newer and better ways of building solutions
- A Team Builder: Being a thoughtful interviewer/ mentor who constantly raises the bar for excellence. Mentoring and coaching tech talent to become tomorrow’s leaders, ensuring each new hire be significantly better than the team to raise the collective bar.
- A Visionary: Complementing product and design leadership with finding the right solution to the problems company is trying to solve for tomorrow.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Aligning our cross-functional teams to design and develop products aligned with our ambitions and strategy.
What you need to have:
- Good to have Bachelors/ Masters in Computer Science or a related field from IITs/ NITs/ BITS Pilani or other premium institutes
- 7 + years of overall experience with 2 to 5 years of people management experience as an Engineering / Software Development Manager
- Experience with managing people and projects is a must
- Expertise in J2EE server technologies
- Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis, javascript, ajax etc.
- Experience with high performance websites catering to high daily traffic is a plus
- Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
- Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
- Exceptional design and architectural skills
- Some of the technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices Architecture, Python, Rest/gRPC, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, ReactJS, React Native, Kubernetes
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BS level technical degree or equivalent professional
- Skills to represent AWS ProServe well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- ·Highly technical and analytical, possessing 15 or more years of IT implementation experience
- ·Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
- Hands on experience in infrastructure implementation
- Automation skills python, powershell knowledgeand cloud formation template
- Strong experience in Architecture, designing and migrating applications on the AWS platform
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPPA etc.)
- Experience working with customers, partners or third-party developers
- Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
o Demonstrated success as a Cloud Infrastructure architect or consultant working with various platforms
o Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
o Cloud certifications
o Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment
o Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, blogging, writing on technical forums, etc.
- Design, build web crawlers to scrape data and URLs.
- Integrate the data crawled and scraped into our databases
- Create more/better ways to crawl relevant information
- Strong knowledge of web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, XPath, Regex)
- Understanding of data privacy policies (esp. GDPR) and personally identifiable information
- Develop automated and reusable routines for extracting information from various data sources
- Prepare requirement summary and re-confirm with Operation team
- Translate business requirements into specific solutions
- Ability to relay technical information to non-technical users
- Demonstrate Effective problem solving and analytical skill
- Ability to pay attention to detail, pro-active, critical thinking and accuracy is essential
- Ability to work to deadlines and give realistic estimates
Skills & Expertise
- 2+ years of web scraping experience
- Experience with two or more of the following web scraping frameworks and tools: Selenium, Scrapy, Import.io, Webhose.io, ScrapingHub, ParseHub, Phantombuster, Octoparse, Puppeter, etc.
- Basic knowledge of data engineering (database ingestion, ETL, etc.)
- Solution orientation and "can do" attitude - with a desire to tackle complex problems.
For software developers, learning programming languages needs to be practical. This is where the startup has helped more than 15000 students to turn theory into practical knowledge. Currently, offering 9 courses the startup has played a catalyst for thousands of students to land jobs at tech giants like Google, Amazon, Adobe, and Walmart. The startup enables students to follow a comprehensive curriculum and seek help from industry experts without facing any geological barrier.
The founders of the startup are the alumnus of acclaimed institutes like IIT Delhi and Stanford University with experience of working in Amazon, Facebook, Cars24, and other top startups in India.
- Reviewing teacher-student interactions
- Identifying potential quality issues per defined processes
- Developing and implementing strategies to improve overall consumer experience
- Ensuring key issues are escalated in a timely manner
- Assessing alignment of output with functional and instructional specifications and requirements
- Assisting with iterations of metrics, benchmarks and process documentation
- Preparing feedback reports
- Preparing action reports
What you need to have:
- 1-3 years experience in Quality Assessment/ Auditing in EdTech assessing online classes on Scratch and Codelabs will be given preference.
- BTech graduate with excellent knowledge of MIT Scratch, Python and Codelabs
- Extremely strong organizational and communication skills with a strong focus on customer service.
- Experience in creating assessment sheets and conducting calibrations
- Detail-oriented, solution-driven, compliance-minded and results-oriented
- Highly motivated to solve problems with proven troubleshooting skills and ability to analyze problems by type and severity
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities successfully
- Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the field
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, result-driven, and high-growth organization and meet strict deadlines.
- Takes a sense of ownership
- A team player, with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback