Tech leader

Job Description

Lead and successfully deliver new/complex projects (either directly or along with team with a self-billing target of 50%)

• Stakeholders & Expectations management
• Develops insights from internal and external sources and takes risks to implement leading-edge solutions
• Ensure successful account entry and downstream business with new customers
• Create downstream business opportunities in each account

Lead and Scale a Technology Practice.

• Responsible for P&L
• Build and deliver solutions
• Responsible for projects delivery
• Build capability

Client Relationship Management (both pre-sales & post-sales)

• Be client CIOs trusted advisor

Client delight

• Ensure client delight
• Ensure referenceable clients
• Through the use of IPs, automation, and use of the right skills mix improve project and account profitability

Grow the business

• Pre-sales / post-sales (play an active role in winning business)
• Client CIO advisory
• Business influenced through Branding (Thought leadership)

Manage and deliver superior value in Key Accounts

• Deliver superior value
• Be CIOs trusted advisor
• Grow business in each account by a minimum of 30% on year on year basis
• Improve account profitability on year on year basis

Enable teams to deliver better value in projects

• Conduct project reviews
• Go-to person for technical or for managing risk in all projects

Innovation and Thought leadership

• Create an organization that imagines and implements unique, breakthrough ideas
• Foresees customer and industry needs and responds with exceptional solutions
• Identify new ideas and approaches that others may have missed
• Produce relevant workable solutions to business problems.
• Present paper and run blogs (directly and through team)
• Build company brand through thought leadership
• Automate work delivery and Build IPs

Coaching & Mentoring

• Provides team a clear direction. Should be hands-on, in the space of Performance Engineering.
• Takes ownership for building capability in the organization by effective coaching and mentoring to move others to a higher level of work.
• Improve architecture skills across all team members
• Ensure team members are happy through continuous engagement
• Help in the career progression of the team

Skills & Experience

• Key Technical Skills: Deep experience in Performance Engineering with an understanding of Java/J2EE technologies.
• Experienced in defining and realizing end-to-end Technical Architecture for large scale real-time enterprise systems. Ability to identify and define non-functional requirements and design systems to meet the same.
• Ability to review existing Architectures and identify Risks, Trade-offs, and share recommendations for addressing the identified issues.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of cloud architecture considerations when scaling and tuning application deployments. Must have hands-on experience working on any of the Cloud deployments on AWS or Azure.
• Good experience in leveraging APM tools to provide deep-dive analysis on performance problems. Deep understanding of the dashboards which can be built for CIO level interactions. Must have relevant experiences with APM tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• Experience in performance optimization of J2EE systems on any of different types of application servers - WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, etc. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers is a must.
• Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint, Design specifications, Deployment architecture.
• Experience in working on Performance Testing Projects. Fair understanding of Performance Testing Tools - Apache JMeter /Gatling/ HP Load Runner for Load testing. Must be in a position to review Performance Testing programs and steer directions towards the right Workload Model, appropriate Test, and Monitoring Strategy, build performance models and derive at the right Capacity Planning.
• Experience in Big Data Analytics like - Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark.
• Good skills in RDBMS like Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and Mongo DB
• Exposure to Agile methodologies & Continuous Integration Tools
• Entrepreneur / Intrapreneur (someone who has built technology teams ground-up, built new solutions from scratch)
• Very sound understanding of technology and have a consultative approach.
• Sound understanding of complex enterprise IT environment and issues faced by CIOs in the digital era.
• Excellent Pre-sales experience and have played a key role in winning business along with the sales team.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, liaison, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Good negotiation skills
• Go-getter and results-oriented
• High energy level with the ability to work well under pressure
• Good relationship building skills. Someone who enjoys the CIOs trust and has the ability to develop relationships at all levels (technology teams) of the customer organization.

Keyskills :
apache stormnegotiation skillsapache kafkams sqlworkable solutionsload runnerthought leadershipbig data analyticsproject reviewsequipment supplycorporate liaisonmarketinghigh energy levelbrandingproblem solvingclient relationship management