Specialist Openings
1. Technical Architect – IT/TA/246
Responsibilities:
- To interpret project requirements and translate these into solutions that can be implemented by the development teams
- To promote the re-use of code, components, and systems in order to ensure that these support the widest range of company projects possible and are aligned with technical strategy
- To ensure that products delivered are supportable, cost effective, meet the department’s strategic business needs, and align to the departmental technical strategy
- To be a technical authority within a project area
- To produce clear technical design documentation and diagrams detailing existing and proposed technical architectures
- To assist the Project Manager by advising on project road-maps to achieve strategic goals
- To provide technical consultancy, expertise and advice to the development teams and management on matters of technical architecture and infrastructure developments, including their feasibility
- To assist with improving the standard of technical delivery and competencies within the technical teams
- To build effective relationships with other technical teams
- To align architectural solutions with other project groups including collaboration on solution design to ensure fit-for-purpose end-to-end solutions
Required knowledge, skills and experience:
- Extensive proven experience in specifying, developing and deploying architectures and infrastructure for software applications in a new media multi-tiered application environment
- Experience in any of the following: C#, ASP.NET, Salesforce, Java and related technologies
- Experience in defining and developing high-volume, horizontally scalable architectures
- Experience in defining, developing, or integrating search systems, leveraging very large data sets, and a thorough understanding of search technologies is required
- Experience of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams with a focus on delivery
- A broad knowledge of existing and emerging technologies and their potential to enhance the performance and robustness of a technical architecture
- Ability to think strategically and evaluate options in the short, medium, and long term
- Translate business and feature requirements into technical specifications
- Experience of communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience evaluating new technologies for their appropriateness to proposed solutions, including assessing their strategic and/or tactical benefit to the product or wider department
- Candidates with valid US B1 visa will be preferred
Posted on: Monday, May 13, 2013
2. Usability Expert/Specialist – IT/UX/244
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Usability analysis, writing user stories
- Spearhead storyboarding for Mobile, Tablet, and Business Applications
- Acquire deep understanding of the end user’s domain
- Lead user research, concept and usability testing
- Optimize discoverability of software and applications
- Employ consistent usability standards across all business units
- Identify new industry practices and hold knowledge sharing sessions
Desired Candidate Profile:
- 5+ years in usability area (web, desktop, mobile apps)
- Versatility to work on web, desktop and mobile platforms
- Ability to work simultaneously with real and virtual teams
- Must possess good documentation and presentation skills
Posted on: Monday, May 13, 2013
3. Business Analyst – IT/BA/243
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Understands client organization’s direction, structure, and requirements and translates it to the software development team
- Documents and analyzes required information, and data
- Prepares requirements, specifications, business processes, and recommendations
- Understands technical design specifications
- Assists in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules
- Understands the necessity of project standards and applies them consistently
- Develops internal and external meeting objectives and agendas
- Prioritizes multiple tasks effectively
- Understands the components of running a fiscally successful project
- Understands basic Internet and client/server architectures
- Possesses basic knowledge of HTML, SQL, and database design
- Proactively initiates, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with team members
- Shares acquired skills with team members through formal and informal channels
Desired Candidate Profile:
- At least 3 years of experience as a Business Analyst
- Having demonstrated successful project delivery for at least 1 large size project
- Should have experience in Agile and Scrum
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong client interaction and documentation skills
- Plan and execute Functional Testing and UAT
- Prepare User documentation – Manuals, Release notes, SOPs, etc
- Strong Business Analysis Skills
- Good understanding of SDLC process and database concepts
- Team player & Process oriented
- Good analytical & Problem solving skills with a self learning attitude
- Strong target orientation and project execution skills
- Experience in client relationship management, project co-ordination and delivery management in an onsite-offshore model
Posted on: Monday, May 13, 2013