Sr. Business Data Analyst & Modeler

About

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to driving transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector.

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. Using data science, technology, and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

$ 1 BillionOur second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
• Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
• Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
• Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
• Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
• Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
• Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
• Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
• Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders
• Requirements:At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
• Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentational and public speaking skills
• Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions
• Good to have:Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
• Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Gurgaon

Additional resources: Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html

• Customer Testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html

GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required: 

• At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

Position Summary

The Management, Orchestration, Visualization and Analytics team is looking for a technically strong UI/UX Engineer who will help develop and enhance the UI features of Manova products and services. Having a background in Cloud services or Network Management is highly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Design user interfaces by creating wireframes and mockups

• Adopt and advocate practices of modern responsive UI designs

• Develop flows using Javascript

• Develop/ enhance UI screens using HTML5, CSS3, React, Angular (or possibly other comparable Javascript technologies)

• Own both development and test automation for the assigned features

• Develop test automation for UI code using Cypress, Jest, React Testing Libraries or other technologies

• Performance tuning of web application with solid knowledge of isolating and debugging a performance problem

• Implement functional flows on a Micro-frontend architecture

• Ensure smooth pipeline runs based on Docker, Kubernetes

• Keep abreast of new front-end technologies and development practices

• Efficiently communicate/collaborate internally at F5

• Participate in defining new software architectures, products and solutions

• Serve as source of technical expertise to a project team and is a mentor for junior staff members

• Proactively identifying and resolving key technical issues

Qualifications

• 10+ years of significant software development and engineering experience.

• Experience of renovating a legacy application to one based on modern UI principles

• Solid hands-on experience in UI and Javascript technologies such as React/Redux, Angular, Knockout, Backbone, JQuery etc

• Solid experience with HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS

• Experience with UI Automation and practices to increase efficiency and accuracy of UI development

• Good familiarity with REST services and data formats such as JSON, XML

• BA/BS in computer science or other engineering disciplines

• Expertise with Continuous Integration and Agile development methodology

• Good communication, presentation skills and ability to work well in a development team

• Strong SW engineering and design skills with an eye for details.

• Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so.

Development Projects

Backlog Create: Work with cross functional teams to breakdown the quarterly objectives into tasks and create backlog in Jira

Groom: Review the backlog regularly for each product / team and keep the items up-to-date and prioritized

Planning: From the backlog create sprint plans for all our products and cross functional teams every two weeks

Estimation: Ensure all the tasks in sprint have assignments, estimates added in Jira and the time spent is recorded

• Ensure all the tasks in sprint have start and end dates - Scheduling, Tracking, Releases
• Work with team to plot the tasks in the sequence as they would be delivered to ensure the planning is realistic
• Attend regular sprint meetings and monitor the progress against the plan o Find out the dependencies and work with cross functional teams to resolve them. 
• Find out the risks, create plans to mitigate them
• Work with cross functional teams to determine the scope of each release o Prepare release plans
• Review the release progress regularly 
• Manage the dependencies and risks

Documentation

• Process Documents : Document the processes that the teams follow and their life-cycle

• Product Documents : Work with cross functional teams to ensure the documentation artifacts are created for each release, reviewed and signed off before the release

Reporting : Weekly Progress Reports o Sprint Reports

Communication

Apart from regularly reporting the project manager need to be able to communicate with teams and management on a day-to-day basis on ongoing product development and release activities to be effective

Customer Projects

• Meet regularly with customers to understand the issues, solution to the use-cases, update implementation schedule and key milestones                                                                                                                   
• Work with customers to plans, schedule and execute the deployment, integration, upgrade, migration activities                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Obtain feedback on product and service performance and take them to management and cross functional teams to ensure they are added to the product backlog                                                                                                                   
• Serve as the primary voice of the customers within Acceldata and advocate on customers’ behalf                                                                                                                   Engage in and coordinate efforts to provide customer support and solutions by leading cross-functional efforts to ensure customer success                                                                                                                   
• Attend periodic business review meetings, as required, to provide progress on specific customer accounts                                                                                                                   Develop and manage improvement strategies for customer success. Hold retrospective reviews after every key milestone, document the outcomes and ensure the actions are implemented                                                                                                                   
• Coordinate with the Site Reliability team to drive value with key accounts
• Prepare periodical reports on customer’s health and report out to management to identify customer experience risks and drive internal change to support continuous customer experience improvement                                                                                                                                                                                            

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:                                                                                                    

• To succeed at this job, you must have 5 - 8 years of experience in managing development projects   
• 3 - 5 years of experience in managing releases /roll out to customers 
• Be Customer Success driven to Have strong leadership and influencing skills 
• Have the ability to track and manage multiple customer programs from inception to implementation o Be able to collect, analyze, present data in support of recommendations 
• Possess the ability to foster working relationships and establish trust across the organization both internally and with customers.

At FINPRO, we believe there is a better way to do most of the professional routines and reduce the burden on end-users. A more valuable, automated way, where customers can do their tasks with ease. We build intelligent solutions to help customers in the financial and marketing industry.

Job description:

We are looking for Angular developers to work on product delivery. Responsibilities will include implementing features in the front end using angular. You will work with other front developers to design and implement the web applications.

Tasks:

· Support and improve existing applications and their codebases

· Participate in the implementation and delivery of features

· Building reusable code and libraries for future use, following code style convention

· Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs

· Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability

· Assure that all user input is validated before submitting it to the back-end

· Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

· Constantly propose new ideas to enhance the global UX

· Understanding of related front-end technologies for this SPA - React, Redux, GraphQL

Skill set:

· Minimum 4 years of experience with working in angular V2, and ideally experience with Angular 6

· Proficient knowledge of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3

· Perfect understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS

· Perfect understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX

· Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them

· Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Gitlab

· Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

· Ability to work directly with Backend Developers to implement APIs and Software Logic to Angular Framework

· Experience working with python.

· Experience in working with AWS in a CI/CD environment

• Build data pipelines for structured/unstructured, real-time/batch, events/synchronous/asynchronous using MQ, Kafka, Steam processing using Java / Python
• Design the Data stores for Big Data systems with expertise in Cassandra, HBase
• Implementation of Indexing and Search using Elasticsearch
• Setup and Deployment of Cassandra, Elasticsearch clusters

• Strong hands-on experience with Cassandra, data modeling, data replication, clustering, indexing for handling for large data sets
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, relational database design, and methods for efficiently retrieving data for Time Series Analytics
• Strong understanding of CQL, Data Modeling in-order to achieve highly performant data access
• Strong experience in data modeling in Cassandra to design efficient storage model to meet variety of business needs
• Should have Elasticsearch skill with significant experience working with large Elasticsearch clusters, cluster performance optimisation, capacity planning, enhancing monitoring capabilities for early issue detection, driving operational readiness and ongoing maintenance
• Strong hands-on experience of programming with Java / Python
• Ability to troubleshoot and investigate stability, performance issues