UST Looking for Architect I – Enterprise Solutions at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

Role Proficiency:
Independently analyze and develop applications and review and design solutions in their assigned area of responsibility on ERP/CRM systems. Manage and mentor a team

Outcomes:
Act creatively to develop applications and select appropriate technical options. Optimize application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and by reusing proven solutions while accounting for others’ developmental activities

Develop technical documents such as Functional Design Specifications Deployment documentation

Perform design document reviews peer code reviews and suggest code improvements

A single point of contact for the build and deployment issues and resolve them on time

Learn technology business domain system domain individually and as recommended by the project/account

Contribute to ERP/CRM Practice related activities for example (but not limited to) assembling content for case studies contributing to reusability coordinating internal seminars and conduct knowledge sharing sessions organizing sessions during and participating in hackathons etc.

Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components.

Identify the problem patterns and improve the technical design of the application/system

Optimizes efficiency cost and quality.

Interpret the application/feature/component design to develop the same in accordance with specifications.

Code debug test and document and communicates product/component/feature development stages.

Validate results with user representatives integrates and commissions the overall solution.

Influence and improve customer satisfaction through things like (but not limited to) offering suggestions for code refactoring and for improvements in business processes completing sprint deliverables ahead of time helping client architects and product owners by way of design suggestions and/or explaining functionality to business stakeholders etc…

Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams

Learn and implement technology newly released features after impact analysis wherever applicable.

Attend industry/technology specific conferences (if applicable) and share the knowledge with the team.

Conduct peer reviews and demand high quality standards from the reviewed deliverables.

Conduct technical assessments for hiring candidates to developer/lead roles.

Mentor and manage a team.

Set goals for self and team in NorthStar. Provide timely feedback to team members

Measures of Outcomes:
Number of applicable technical/domain certifications completed

Adherence to process and standards (coding standards)

Number of mandatory trainings (industry/technology specific trainings UST mandatory trainings) completed

Average time taken for turnaround on production bugs Adherence to schedule / timelines

Number of technical sessions conducted within Practice for the benefit of peers and team members.

Contribution to RFPs and estimations in ERP/CRM Practice.

Number of Leads who were guided and upskilled to lead a technical team.

Number of process streamline documents prepared for ERP/CRM Practice

Outputs Expected:
Requirement:
Understand the requirements/user stories

Estimate:
Create and provide inputs for effort and size estimation and plan resources for projects.

Follow scrum ceremonies.

Configuration and Coding:
Define coding standards

templates and checklists. Perform code review of team members.

Test:
Review and create unit test cases

scenarios and execution.

Review test plan created by testing team.

Provide clarifications to the testing team.

Manage Defects:
Perform defect RCA and mitigation.

Identify defect trends and take proactive measures to improve quality.

Manage Project:
Manage delivery of modules. Manage user stories.

Documentation:
Create/review templates

checklists

guidelines

standards for design/process/development.

Create/review deliverable documents. Design documentation

requirements

test cases and results.

Status Reporting:
Report status of tasks assigned.

Comply with project related reporting standards and process.

Manage knowledge:
Contribute project related documents

share point

libraries

client universities.

Review the reusable documents created by the team.

Create knowledge sharing assets.

Release:
Execute and monitor release process

Interface with Customer:
Clarify requirements and provide guidance to development team

Present design options to customers

Implementation reviews with stakeholders.

Work closely with customer architects to finalize design

Domain relevance:
Advise software developers on design and development of feature / component with deeper understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client.

Learn more about the customer domain and identify opportunities to provide value additions to customers

Complete relevant domain certifications

Manage/Mentoring Team:
Set goals and provide regular feedback to team members.

Understand aspirations of their team members and provide guidance

opportunities

etc.

Ensure team members are upskilled and engaged in the project.

Proactively identify any risks and work with mitigation measures.

Mentor and motivate junior leads to upgrade their technical screening skills.

Assists others in resolving complex technical problems:
Manage all aspects of problem management activities

investigating the root cause ofrnproblems and recommends SMART (specific

measurable

achievable

realistic

timely)rnsolutions.

Development and review of Standards & Documentation:
Maintenance of software process improvement activities

communicating to a range of individuals and teams.

Solution Definition & Design:
Define Architecture for the small sized kind of project.

Design the technical framework and implement the same.

Skill Examples:
Proactively identifying solutions for technical issues.

Ability to maintain technical evaluation procedures.

Ability to estimate project effort based on the requirement.

Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications.

Break down complex problems into logical components.

Interface with other teams designers and other parallel practice; including regular follow up for any conflicts during project execution.

Create and articulate impactful technical presentations.

Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication.

Drive conference calls with customers and answer customer questions.

Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning and handle multiple tasks.

Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables in time with quality.

Proactively ask for and offer help

Knowledge Examples:
Functional and technical designing on various ERP/CRM cloud platform features and automations.

Thorough knowledge of coding best practices and understanding the limitations of coding.

Experience using data loading tools.

Experience with production deployment and solving deployment errors.

Experience in integrating ERP/CRM with external systems using SOAP API REST API etc.

Experience working in Agile methodology.

Must have knowledge – HTML/HTML5 CSS XML AJAX Web-services.

Experience with Google APIs JQuery/any other java-script framework ERP/CRM technology specific mobile development analytics etc.

Deep knowledge on architecting solutions and applications on cloud-based infrastructures.

Deep level proficiency in the specialist area.

Additional Comments:
SALESFORCE.COM TPM/ SCRUM MASTER – JOB DESCRIPTION Opportunity: Looking for an TPM/ Scrum Mater to manage the Salesforce Technologies development team. The attributes we are looking for is a leader with technology and software development knowledge, an innovator, problems solver and a people person. Responsibilities: • Working closely with the Management teams and all the stakeholders. • Managing/running multiple scrums and projects. • Responsible for all product/project timelines, and ensure they are delivered in a timely manner as per the defined scope and budget. • Creating and implementing best practices policies, standards and frameworks • Ensure coordination between teams for timely delivery. • Understand the requirements from the development and delivery team and assist in designing software solutions. • Estimate the project and delivery timelines. • Identify, monitor and process tasks through discussion with teams including raising red flags, reporting tasks etc. • Ability to detect any blockers and delay in delivery and to take the required action and responsibility. • Conduct regular meetings with team leaders and follow up on project status. • Ability to excel in a fast-paced start up like culture where features are rapidly developed and tested, revised and experimented. • Streamline the team’s overall performance and delivery. • Mentoring, Coaching and nurturing team members • Ability to work with teams across the globe. Qualifications/Requirements: • 10+ years of progressive career in IT. • Should have managed minimum of 2-3 projects in Salesforce in a Agile- Scrum model • Experience in Salesforce product development is a huge plus • Excellent Project Management, People Management, Persuasion and Leadership skills in a software Development environment. • Should have experience handling the US clients. • Should have solid experience in roadmap definition, effort estimation, capacity planning and incident management • Should have ability to influence without authority. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Must have experience of running Sprints and tracking throughput through tools like JIRA, Confluence and JAMA. • Scrum Master certification CSM or PSM-I is a huge Plus