1 Goods and Services Tax Network Job

Role Description :

The role mainly involves designing, guiding and supervising over-all architecture, delivery of large and complex projects in GSTN like Goods and Services Tax Project.

The role envisions the organization's mandate on service offerings and ensuring the delivery through appropriate technology platforms and applications.

The person will be responsible for delivery for development of related applications and will lead the application delivery for the intended users.

The person should be able communicate with clarity and confidence about technical architecture, industry trends, tradeoffs and other practices, providing confidence to others, including senior officials of the industry and government.

Position Profile :

- Provides leadership, vision of architecture and technology strategy as it relates to research, application design, infrastructure design, security design, and application architecture for the systems at GSTN as an individual contributor.

- Responsible for delivery design, review, and approval of business application use cases, technology standards, technology selections, and application security design.

- Design APIs, review and approve application and database designs, review and approve technology infrastructure deployments, review and approve security design of entire application stack, and provide single point contact for all application technology and architecture decisions and design approvals.

- Work ranges from conceptual and strategic to tactical and includes designing new components as well as initiating and overseeing the implementation of the whole system including deep dive and troubleshooting of systems from a technology architecture perspective.

- Assist in defining technology best practices, standards, review and approve vendors' technology work

Responsible for :

- Overall technical leadership to GSTN with respect to application delivery and solution.

- Working with the internal and external partners to establish complete technical design including APIs, Data Model, User Experience, ensuring best practices and design principles are followed.

- Designing APIs, reviewing and approving application and database designs

- Providing inputs to various GSTN business owners to help define requirements and technology policies

- Being a core member of the application definition team which will review and approve application deployments and security design of entire application stack and be leader for the product design, implement strategy and technologies requirements.

- Developing business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for technology spending and initiatives.

- Defining requirements for new technology implementations, information security and privacy requirement.

- Coordination among multiple vendors' teams, internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams and consultants etc. to sort out issues related to technical architecture.

- In-Depth understanding of key technical domains for ability to govern the large and complex IT projects

- Providing guidance to GSTN on all technical matters and technology integrations.

- Identifying technical risks to the ongoing or future projects

- Provide assistance in the change management and capacity building for overall program

Others :

- Managing, motivating and mentoring team members for better team bonding and coordination

- Conflict Management & Resolution within team

- Working in concert with senior leaders of GSTN on all technology matters including necessary communications

- Providing direction, guidance to project & support teams for achieving the expected results

Key Attributes & Skills :

Educational Qualifications :

- The applicant should be a B./B.Tech, M.Tech or MCA from a reputed Institute.

- Master's degree in computer science or related subject from an acclaimed university will be preferred.

Experience :

- Should have a minimum of 15 years in the IT industry with at least 8 years into large scale systems architecture and implementation

- Strong technical experience with respect to high performance architecture covering security, integrations and scalability

- Experience in building large scale transactional systems that can support 100's of millions of transactions

- Proven experience in building online-offline systems with high level of data integrity

- In-depth hand-on experience in designing and building component layered IT systems using broad technologies such as Java, RDBMS, XML, JSON, HTML, Mobile, NoSQL systems, among others

Preferred :

- Candidates with hand-on experience in multiple IT domains in areas of Application development, Databases, IT Infrastructure etc.

- End-to-end understanding of the software development process.

- Experience of building systems that are API based, loosely coupled, and highly automatable