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Description
As a Render Technical Director (Render TD), you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the rendering and lighting tools, software and workflows used on our award-winning VFX and Feature Animation shows. You will be providing front-line technical support to lighting artists, identifying inefficiencies in workflows and troubleshooting lighting scenes to enable our talented lighting artists to deliver world-class work on each show.
Our Render TDs are highly technical and demonstrate an aptitude for creative problem solving. You will regularly be required to:
- provide face-to-face support and assistance for lighting artists
- assist with the creation of technical robust setups, such as light rigs and scene templates, for use throughout our shows
- contribute to testing and provide feedback for software releases from our R&D teams that impact lighting and rendering
- help identify and resolve inefficiencies in the lighting and rendering pipeline
As well as being able to demonstrate technical skill and initiative, you will need to be an excellent communicator and be able to work enthusiastically in a highly collaborative environment. You will work closely with our Render Supervisors as well as supervisors from other departments, such as Model, Texture, Look Development and FX, to identify and highlight rendering considerations and help optimize their lighting tools and workflows. Your ability to aid communication between these departments in the reporting and resolving of issues and to accurately communicate between technical developers and non-technical artists will help you thrive in this role.
Above all, you will be working as part of a team of exceptionally talented TDs and Render Supervisors alongside our dynamic and creative R&D department, contributing to the production of exceptional VFX and Animation work on projects ranging from blockbuster epics to television dramas.
Must have:
- Previous experience in the visual effects or a related industry
- Practical experience with lighting and rendering DCCs such as Clarisse, Katana and Houdini
- Experience with path tracing renderers such as Clarisse, Renderman and Mantra
Nice to have:
- Render wrangling experience
- Look development experience
- Shader writing experience
- Python programming skills
- Experience writing tools ands scripts for the lighting pipeline
About Us
We are DNEG, one of the world’s leading VFX and animation studios for the creation of award-winning feature film, television and multiplatform content. We employ nearly 8,000 people with worldwide offices and studios across North America (Los Angeles, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver), Europe (London) and Asia (Bangalore, Mohali,Chennai, Mumbai).
About the Role
We are seeking a detail-oriented QA Engineer with strong expertise in automation testing, test planning, and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will ensure the quality and reliability of our products through rigorous manual and automated testing, while also contributing to continuous improvement in our CI/CD pipeline and cloud-native environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute test plans, cases, and scripts for functional, integration, system, regression, and UAT testing.
- Build and maintain automation frameworks for E2E and API testing (Playwright, SoapUI, or similar).
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps engineers to ensure high-quality software delivery.
- Perform defect tracking, reporting, and root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement.
- Apply knowledge of AWS cloud-native services and Terraform to support testing in cloud-based environments.
- Write and maintain reusable test automation scripts with JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Support release validation, performance checks, and production monitoring as needed.
Must-Have Requirements
- Strong experience in test planning & execution (functional, integration, regression, UAT).
- Hands-on with automation testing frameworks (Playwright, SoapUI, etc.).
- Proficiency in JavaScript with basic understanding of TypeScript and SQL.
- Experience with Terraform and good exposure to AWS Cloud Native services.
- Ability to integrate test automation with CI/CD pipelines.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Familiarity with other automation tools (Selenium, Cypress, Postman, etc.).
- Experience in performance testing and security testing.
- Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes for containerized environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Work with cloud application migration leaders to define and create application migration
plans
- Work with Infra engineer, Dev Ops, Application Teams and others in executing migration
projects to ensure minimal risk and business disruption
- Provide cloud migration expertise covering infrastructure, application architectures, cloud
capabilities, security, etc.
- In collaboration with application teams, review and identify candidate applications for
cloud migration based on pre-defined application rationalization
- Define appropriate migration strategy for each application (Rehost, Re-Platform,
Rearchitect, etc.) while considering cost and complexity of the various options
- Help identify potential risks that may impact migration projects and identify appropriate
mitigating actions
- Ensure migrated applications comply with required security requirements
- Measure relevant cloud application migration KPIs to ensure overall program health and
migration efficiency.
- Experience with configuration, migration, and deployment experience related to Azure
and AWS/Other cloud platforms IaaS/PaaS Technologies
- Work closely with Cybersecurity to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
- Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of
the company.
- Knowledge on CI/CD using Azure DevOps
- Must have skills: Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS, IaC, Cloud Native know-how, Application
development knowledge.
- Add-on skills: DevOps – Terraform/Ansible/Jenkins/Chef, Cloud Security
Responsibilities:
• Designing Hive/HCatalog data model includes creating table definitions, file formats, compression techniques for Structured & Semi-structured data processing
• Implementing Spark processing based ETL frameworks
• Implementing Big data pipeline for Data Ingestion, Storage, Processing & Consumption
• Modifying the Informatica-Teradata & Unix based data pipeline
• Enhancing the Talend-Hive/Spark & Unix based data pipelines
• Develop and Deploy Scala/Python based Spark Jobs for ETL processing
• Strong SQL & DWH concepts.
Preferred Background:
• Function as integrator between business needs and technology solutions, helping to create technology solutions to meet clients’ business needs
• Lead project efforts in defining scope, planning, executing, and reporting to stakeholders on strategic initiatives
• Understanding of EDW system of business and creating High level design document and low level implementation document
• Understanding of Big Data Lake system of business and creating High level design document and low level implementation document
• Designing Big data pipeline for Data Ingestion, Storage, Processing & Consumption
- 4+ yrs of experience having strong fundamentals on Windchill Customization & Configurations, Reporting Framework Customization, Workflow Customization , Customer handling
- Strong Customization background around Form Processors, Validator, data utilities, Form Controllers etc.
- Strong Programming skills in Java/J2EE technologies – JavaScript, GWT, JQuerry, XMLs, JSPs, SQL etc.
- Deep Knowledge in Windchill architecture
- Experience in atleast one full lifecycle PLM implementation with Windchill.
- Should have strong coding skills in Windchill development and Customization, ThingWorx Navigate Development (Mandatory), Thing Worx Architecture Configurations Mashup creation, ThingWorx and Windchill Upgrade
- Should have Build and Configuration management (Mandatory) - HPQC \JIRA\Azure\SVN\GITHUB \ Ant
- Knowledge & Experience in Build and Release process
- Having worked on custom upgrade will be a plus.
- Understanding of application s development environment, Database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints. Understanding of Database administration, Database design and performance Tuning
- Follow Quality processes for tasks with appropriate reviews. Participate in sharing knowledge within the team.
JOB Role: CMS Developer (AEM Cross Train)
Work Location: Chennai & Remote also Preferred
About the Role:
Lister technologies poised for a massive growth this year is seeking for Developers, Sr. Developers who are well versed in any Content Management Systems (CMS) and are willing to pursue their career as an AEM expert. Deserving candidates will be given an opportunity to get trained, certified, and deployed in projects executed for our global enterprise customers The candidate is expected to have an in-depth understanding of CMS concepts, features, and benefits and should be hands-on in any front-end and (or) backend technologies like HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, ES6, PHP, Java, .Net etc. leveraging the CMS custom capabilities in any of the platforms like Drupal, WordPress, Liferay, Contentful etc. .
Responsibilities
- Develop well designed, testable, and efficient custom components for enterprise scale applications in AEM Platform.
- Adopt agile methodology and iterative development.
- Employ strong coding standards for efficiency, readability, and reuse.
- Responsible for meeting expectations and meeting deliverables on time and in high quality.
- Demonstrate creative, technical, and analytical skills
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively in technical environment.
- Operate effectively as an individual for quick turnaround of enhancement and fixes
Skills Description:
- Hands-on in any one of the CMS platforms with an in depth understanding of the platform (Drupal, WordPress, Liferay etc.)
- Good knowledge of theme, plug-ins customization and custom component development
- Desire to continually learn and explore new tools, concepts and ideas and then share them with the rest of the team
- The candidate is expected to pick up AEM platform quickly and get certified.
- Candidates having a strong java skillset (or have experience in java-based CMS platforms - like Liferay) is expected to learn AEM platform and contribute extensively to AEM backend development in JCR, OSGI and Apache Sling
- Candidates having a strong front-end skills like HTML 5, CSS3 (or pre-processing platforms like SASS), JavaScript, jQuery or have extensively worked in any non-java-based CMS platforms like Drupal, WordPress etc. will be required to learn AEM Platform and contribute to AEM Front-end development in designing AEM templates and components leveraging AEM Sightly/HTL Framework.
- Good Communication (both verbal and written).
- Designing and building the website front-end.
- Creating the website architecture.
- Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
- Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
- Conducting website performance tests.
- Troubleshooting content issues.
- Conducting WordPress training with the client.
- Monitoring the performance of the live website.
- Java 8, Spring Boot, Java Microservices
- REST API’s
- Angular 11, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
- SQL DB
- Azure/AWS
- Kafka
- 5+ years of experience in Healthcare domain
- To understand the problem statements which includes Change Requests
- To closely interact with Clients, Design and Development Team Members and Testing team
- Good Communications in English
- Should be familiar to Agile methodologies
Product Manager - Chennai
Who we are?
Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the masses in India, which provides intuitive solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and provides a payments platform for digitizing payments across financial institutions. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.
In a very short time span, global investors such as Oiko Credit, Omidyar Network and Blume Ventures have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $8 million in seed and Series A funding. The company was one of only ten startups chosen for the Google LaunchPad Accelerator program in 2019, was recognized as India's Most Innovative Wealth, Asset and Investment Management Service/Product by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and was selected to present at United Nations General Assembly Special Task Force Event.
Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone. We have brought together a fantastic team with folks with prior experience at Google, Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, IFMR, WebMD, that are all working towards this common mission together.
To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/">https://kaleidofin.com/
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the execution of the entire product lifecycle management from concept through launch and beyond.
- Break down the overall roadmap into specific components for you to own the backlog.
- Grow the products and features for both existing and new products.
- Own responsibility and accountability for the product experience and associated OKR’s.
- Define, implement, and own metrics to monitor and communicate product performance, validate hypothesis, refine content and experience.
- Analyze and educate the business on the market dynamics, trends and our competition.
Requirements/Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in product management. FinTech market experience a strong plus.
- Experience creating and contributing to a software product roadmap, evangelizing the product vision.
- Experience working directly and cross-functionally with developers, product managers, and other related stakeholders
- Excellent communication, presentation skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
- Strong work ethic. Self-starting personality with the ability to problem solve and develop creative solutions. Works well and stays focused under little supervision.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in work experience.



