Vice President

Job Description –Analytics Engineering Lead 

 About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of a data driven organisation to shape the business insights crucial to our clients as they return to the workplace. 

You will work closely with the Analytics product owner to build and develop a strong, motivated, cross functional analytics team, delivering high quality, creative solutions for clients.  

You have overall responsible for the analytics development team and delivery. Set the direction to ensure the team can meet the exciting and challenging demands, using different technologies. Own the delivery of the product roadmap and lead through a tight scrum process to deliver quality, timely solutions. 

Work closely with the product owner and client facing teams to ensure the client needs are well understood when developing and delivering innovative solutions.  

The lead role will have experience in leading development teams to deliver web solutions and will have a passion for data and analytics. They will understand how to manage big data and should ideally also have an understanding of industry leading analytics platforms, specifically Tableau. As such, should have experience in leading teams with cross disciplinary skills working on multiple platforms. 

They will be well versed in working across the organisation with senior technical leads to ensure the analytics service and solutions meets the organisational technology standards and delivers secure, compliant and accurate solutions for the client. 

Education 

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience 
• If you have the right experience and skills but don’t have a relevant degree, please apply for the role. 

Key Skills and Experience  

• Required Skills: Team Leadership, Scrum 

• Good to have: JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, Nodejs, React, AWS, TypeScript, amCharts, D3.js (or industry equivalent), Tableau understanding 

Experience: 6-10 years 

• Proven track record in growing and developing a high-performance team. 
• Experience working with big data architectures and analytics. 

• In-depth knowledge of regulatory rules surrounding data. 
• Ability to understand, design and fully document end-to-end scalable IoT systems. 
• Knowledge of Well-Architected solutions using AWS Services (eg Lambda, Athena, S3 etc). 
• Knowledge in developing frontend applications and ideally analytics dashboards using .js charts. 
• Comfortable with JavaScript, ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies. 

• Data processing and manipulation experience and able to easily comprehend and write efficient SQL queries. 
• Able to lead the team but get stuck in and contribute. 
• Rich experience of handling multi-national clients. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. 

 Key Behaviors  

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 
• Inspire, develop and mentoring a motivated, enthusiastic team. 
• Lead by example and ensuring best practice principles embedded within the team. 

• Own the delivery of the product roadmap through Scrum and ensure team resourced and assigned appropriately 
• See projects through from conception into production and support, ensuring quality throughout. 
• Ensure high standards by instilling  data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps. 
• Able to challenge solutions and processes in creating the best products and environment to work. 

• Be unafraid to own mistakes 
• Always ensure customer priority and focus 

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 

• Partner with Corporate IT Security Architects, the Development Head and CTO to ensure adherence to security practices and compliance for Infrastructure Engineering. 
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering and Support teams to collaboratively develop architectures and to support them conform to high standards of security practices and compliance. 

Our client is the fastest growing company in the space of student mobility in Asia Pacific as per Financial times.

More about them

- Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing).

- Helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, nonstandardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process.

- Leading student housing platform globally, with 1M+ student housing units listed in 6 countries and across 80 cities.

- Growing rapidly and targeting $400M in annual gross bookings value by 2022.

About Company : -

It is the 2018 Forbes Choice Award Winner and Galen Growth’s 2018 Most

Innovative Startup in Asia. It is a reliable & secure health-tech platform with a mission to

simplify access to healthcare by connecting millions of patients with licensed doctors, insurance, labs, and pharmacies in one mobile application.

Role : - Engineering Manager

Key Job Responsibilities:

● He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical

strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap.

● He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.

● Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple

business plans and technologies.

● Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and build roadmaps

● Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and

coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

● Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional teams.

● Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both

platforms

● Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 9+ years experience
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)

• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST Express etc

• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

Key Job Responsibilities:

• He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical

strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap.

• He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple

business plans and technologies.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and build roadmaps
• Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and

coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

• Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional teams.
• Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both platforms.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 10+ years experience
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,

• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard,  REST popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning) Express etc

• Experience in Microservices architecture is a must.
• Working on public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure etc is preferred
• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres.
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

About the role:

We are currently building an exciting multi-category, digital first, direct to consumer, commerce business for couple of new brands in Food & Fashion category. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our ecommerce business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking & logistics integrations.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead its development across web, mobile and in-store devices. You will be responsible to work closely with business leaders to understand the developer needs and device solutions through developer tools and services. The role incumbent will be managing a team of in-house & outsourced developers and will be responsible for defining the technical roadmap, project delivery and maintenance of systems developed in-house. The incumbent will also be driving technology innovation with integrations and external partners to fully leverage the latest solutions and technologies for servicing the organization needs. This role will report to the Director-Engineering.

Location: Mumbai based preferably. We can also consider Bangalore based candidates.

Responsibilities:

Your core responsibilities will include Technical Guidance, Execution, Delivery & Team Management. You will be working in a fast-paced and agile work environment delivering quality solutions that have immediate business impact.

• Ownership of engineering features and components from concept, design, development & deployment
• Participate in the solution architecting, enterprise interface design and integration.
• Work with users to understand requirements, design scalable and efficient technology solutions.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with other internal teams and external partners.

• Communicate cross-functionally, collaborate with Business teams, Product managers, engineers and QA to plan, own and deliver solutions on time.
• Ensure teams follow best practices regarding coding standards, code reviews, and testing. Responsible for code quality, review & release strategy.

• Define and drive development team priorities and ensure delivery through in-house and vendor development teams.

• Keep tab of latest technology trends and leverage it for improvements/changes in current setup to increase efficiency, reduce maintenance cost and time to market.

• Publish regular reports of activities and highlight potential risks. 
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor engineering team resources.

Required Qualification, Experience & skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 6-8 years of overall developer experience with a minimum 12-18 months in the GoLang toolkit – very familiar with all the frameworks and tools needed to manage and further build an end to end ecommerce platform in GoLang
• Prior experience in managing a team of min 4-6 engineers
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging

• Experience of implementing Agile, Scrum & Iterative processes

• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from Web development, Mobile app development, AWS, machine learning, large scale data platforms, service oriented architecture, distributed systems design, android platform, front-end user interfaces, databases etc.

We at Noise.com are looking for an experienced, Tech Lead who has hands-on experience of mobile apps development to be part of our team. We need someone with expert-level technical skills and expertise, who can manage a fully functional web and app development team, maintain impeccable quality standards and optimize functions accordingly throughout the completion of the app project. You will have an opportunity to build the team. 

Profile summary: 

• Managing the entire product life cycle - conceptualization, design, development, Q/A, maintenance, and new version upgradation

• Good knowledge of Ruby,Node.js, React Native, Android/iOS App development, Firebase, and web services (Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, OOA, OOD, DS, DB Concepts) 

• Work closely with stakeholders on website, app, and internal product planning and execution.

• Provide technical leadership in the end to end design, development, and testing of solutions

• Keep up to date on cutting edge technologies and effectively incorporate that knowledge to our platform roadmap, design, and implementation

• Sound Knowledge of testing methodologies including automation testing

• Handle and address any issues regarding the development: technical difficulty or team management & get all issues resolved by coordinating with other technical experts or if required by any other department for the same

• Coordinate with internal resources and third parties/consultants/vendors for the flawless execution of projects

• Maintaining an Agile environment and meeting the product delivery deadlines

• Lead and manage the day to day activities of their team

• Establish and maintain a proper communication channel among all the stakeholders and report and escalate the same to management as needed

• Tracking the status of the team's work and ensuring deliverables are produced on agreed schedules in coordination with the other stakeholders

• Conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning

• Conduct module-level work effort estimations and integrate for the whole system  

• Provide accurate and detailed weekly task reports

• Should have at least 3.5+ years of experience in mobile application development experience with at least two apps that are on the app store that you are proud to discuss with us

Your must-haves:  

• You should be familiar with the Cloud Technologies 

• You should be familiar with the Web Architecture 

• You should be familiar with the Mobile Architecture especially MVVM

• Consistently demonstrated ability of Tech Lead in current role

• 5+ Years of relevant industry experience

• Certified: AWS Solution Architect (Preferred but not mandatory)