Lead II – Software Engineering | UST | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Position: Lead II – Software Engineering

Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Role Proficiency:

Act creatively to develop applications by selecting appropriate technical options optimizing application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions. Account for others’ developmental activities; assisting Project Manager in day to day project execution.
Outcomes:

• Interpret the application feature and component designs to develop the same in accordance with specifications.
• Code debug test document and communicate product component and feature development stages.
• Validate results with user representatives integrating and commissions the overall solution.
• Select and create appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components while creating own solutions for new contexts
• Optimises efficiency cost and quality.
• Influence and improve customer satisfaction
• Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams

Set FAST goals for self/team; provide feedback to FAST goals of team members

Measures of Outcomes:

• Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards)
• Adherence to project schedule / timelines
• Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project
• Number of defects in the code
• Number of defects post delivery
• Number of non compliance issues
• Percent of voluntary attrition

On time completion of mandatory compliance trainings

Outputs Expected:

Code:

• Code as per the design
• Define coding standards
• templates and checklists
• Review code – for team and peers

Documentation:

• Create/review templates
• checklists
• guidelines
• standards for design/process/development
• Create/review deliverable documents. Design documentation
• requirements
• test cases and results

Configure:

• Define and govern configuration management plan
• Ensure compliance from the team

Test:

• Review/Create unit test cases
• scenarios and execution
• Review test plan created by testing team
• Provide clarifications to the testing team

Domain relevance:

• Advise software developers on design and development of features and components with deeper understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client
• Learn more about the customer domain and identify opportunities to provide value addition to customers
• Complete relevant domain certifications

Manage Project:

• Support Project Manager with inputs for the projects
• Manage delivery of modules
• Manage complex user stories

Manage Defects:

• Perform defect RCA and mitigation
• Identify defect trends and take proactive measures to improve quality

Estimate:

• Create and provide input for effort and size estimation and plan resources for projects

Manage knowledge:

• Consume and contribute to project related documents
• share point
• libraries and client universities
• Review the reusable documents created by the team

Release:

• Execute and monitor release process

Design:

• Contribute to creation of design (HLD
• LLD
• SAD)/architecture for applications
• features business components and data models

Interface with Customer:

• Clarify requirements and provide guidance to Development Team
• Present design options to customers
• Conduct product demos
• Work closely with customer architects for finalizing design

Manage Team:

• Set FAST goals and provide feedback
• Understand aspirations of the team members and provide guidance
• opportunities
• etc
• Ensure team members are upskilled
• Ensure team is engaged in project
• Proactively identify attrition risks and work with BSE on retention measures

Certifications:

• Obtain relevant domain and technology certifications

Skill Examples

• Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
• Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
• Break down complex problems into logical components
• Develop user interfaces business software components
• Use data models
• Estimate time and effort resources required for developing / debugging features / components
• Perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environments
• Make quick decisions on technical/project related challenges
• Manage a team mentor and handle people related issues in team
• Have the ability to maintain high motivation levels and positive dynamics within the team.
• Interface with other teams designers and other parallel practices
• Set goals for self and team. Provide feedback for team members
• 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
• Proactively ask for and offer help
• Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning handling multiple tasks.
• Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables timely with a quality product.
• Estimate time and effort of resources required for developing / debugging features / components

Knowledge Examples

• Appropriate software programs / modules
• Functional & technical designing
• Programming languages – proficient in multiple skill clusters
• DBMS
• Operating Systems and software platforms
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Agile – Scrum or Kanban Methods
• Integrated development environment (IDE)
• Rapid application development (RAD)
• Modelling technology and languages
• Interface definition languages (IDL)
• Broad knowledge of customer domain and deep knowledge of sub domain where problem is solved

Additional Comments

Responsibilities:

• Translate functional requirements to design.
• Work with technical SMEs to understand their requirements and ensure these are met.
• Define best practices and standards for application implementation.
• Identify and define implementation patterns
• Lead activities to build accelerators and tools to increase the quality of deliverables.
• Define new development frameworks, libraries, utilities etc.
• Work with cross functional teams to facilitate the development of the product.
• Ensure the quality of deliverables of the teams.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams
• Lead a team of senior junior developers at onshore/ offshore.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested. Technical Experience: Must have:
• 8+ years of IT experience Demonstrable experience in Core Java (1.8 or higher).
• Expertise in Spring framework, Spring boot, Web Services (SOAP/REST), JMS and RDBMS.
• Must have experience in deploying using CI/CD tools, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience in developing and deploying in cloud provider platforms preferably AWS.
• Expert in providing API contracts and definitions in Open API specifications using Swagger.
• Experience in development using CI/CD with Gradle, Junit, SonarQube, Git & Jenkins.
• Excellent knowledge of design patterns and its usage in projects.
• Must have worked on Test Driven Development approach.
• Experience in developing on microservices based architecture. Desired skills :
• Experience developing enterprise application using Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge on enterprise integration patterns using enterprise service bus, API Gateway etc.
• Knowledge on using tools such as Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, Kafka.
• Experience in defining new frameworks, utilities, library etc.
• Experience in performance monitoring and Payment industry would be an advantage.
• Experience in Onshore/offshore business model

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