Lead I - Product Engineering

Leverages technical expertise with some guidance from Lead II to select appropriate technical options for development; with an understanding of complex product requirements based on customer discovery process

Outcomes:

1. Ensure product requirements and user stories are clearly understood from the customer discovery process
2. Create effort estimation and ETA for the deliverables ensure adherence to timelines/SLAs wherever applicable
3. Enable solutioning for complex technology problems write code for very critical modules/complex algorithms develop complex features and unit test cases
4. Ensure execution of test cases and preparation of release document in line with requirements
5. Adherence to the best practices and standards; providing periodic status updates
6. Ensure career progression for Product Engineers via focused mentoring and grooming
7. Ensure hiring of right candidates via technical assessments for the Product Engineering Lead role
8. Influence and improve customer satisfaction
9. Set OKRs for self/team and also provide feedback to these goals of team members

Measures of Outcomes:

1. Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards)
2. Adherence to project schedule and timelines
3. # of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project
4. Number of defects in the code in the product overall
5. Number of defects post-delivery overall
6. Number of non-compliance issues overall
7. Number of reusable components/libs developed overall
8. Number of domain certification/ product certifications
9. Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR Assignments HIG Stretch goals)

Outputs Expected:

Product Requirements:

1. Understand critical / complex product requirements (functional and non-functional);
2. Create a low-level design document (which captures class level diagram and attributes mapped to the class and sequence diagram) based on the understanding of high-level design;
3. Seek review inputs from the Solution architect and incorporate the same

Product Design and Development:

1. Create POCs to identify the feasibility of new technologies / products and share the findings with the architecture team;
2. Provides technical inputs for product research
   design
   analysis
   testing
   process improvement
   and complex troubleshooting for critical and large projects in the product development process
3. Build optimized modules in terms of performance without affecting functionality
4. Under the guidance of Architects
   create high level software design (HLSD) documents
5. Provide technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems
6. Drive architecture / code reviews and eliminate implementation problems early in development cycle
7. Establish design standards and deliver solutions which meets products functional and non-functional requirements
8. Provide technical guidance to the team in resolving complex technical issues

Product Testing:

1. Conduct Integration testing and resolve defects/bugs during QA Testing
   Alpha Release
   Beta Release
   Post-Release patches for complex modules.
2. Maintain code quality
   ensure code coverage.

Technology Thought Leadership:

1. Participate in various conferences
   seminars
   webinars and create blogs / white papers to showcase technology thought leadership
2. Contribute with inputs to create knowledge assets
   user manual
   online help document
   installation scripts and installation manual; leveraging the same

People Management:

1. Train and mentor team members in product development track
2. Build positive working relationship with the clients module leads

Skill Examples:

1. Uses Domain / Industry Knowledge to independently understand and interact with SME at various stages of the development
2. Use knowledge of Product Features / Functionality to understand the complex functionality of the product to build training materials and assessments for the product. Share best practices with other teams leverage the best practices followed. Assess product suitability and feasibility provide / create a mechanism/model to calculate ROI for a feature roll-out
3. Create Training plans/SOPs to help DevOps Engineers deal with already existing CI/CD Pipelines and components
4. Deliver components that automates parts of the build/deploy lifecycle for products
5. Configure a CI/CD pipeline that can be used by product development teams
6. Use User Experience Knowledge to understand user interface design and implication on product design and development and improve product usability across the user base. Provide necessary inputs to design team that indicates the user profile/segments and savviness of these users so the right trade-off can be achieved

Knowledge Examples:

• Domain / Industry Knowledge: Has working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical customer business domain
  1. Technology Trends Knowledge: Demonstrates broad knowledge of technology trends related to multiple inter-related technologies
  2. Has specialized knowledge of product architecture elements
  3. Proficient in object-oriented analysis and design and good knowledge on software design principles and patterns.
  4. Knowledge of the application development lifecycle preferably Agile and XP.
  5. Product Features / Functionality: Has specialized knowledge of the product
  6. Knowledge of Config/Build/Deploy processes and tools
  7. Knowledge of IAAS - Cloud providers (AWS Azure Google etc. ) and their tool sets
  8. Knowledge of the application development lifecycle
  9. Comprehension of Quality Assurance processes
  10. Knowledge of Quality Automation processes and tools
  11. Familiar with multiple tool stacks not just one
  12. Knowledge of Build Branching/Merging
  13. Knowledge about containerization
  14. Technology Partnership Management: Has specialized knowledge of parameters for vendor evaluation
  15. User Experience Knowledge: Has basic knowledge of aspects that enhance product/systems usability to improve the overall user experience
  
  

  Lead Developer-Python (Vision) 10+ Years of IT Experience Strong Expertise in Python, Pandas, Multiprocessing (Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis) Experience with database technologies like MongoDB / MySQL; Experience building well documented modern, data-driven web applications and web APIs with emphasis on strong software design methodologies Must have experience on web services and APIs (REST, JSON and similar) and creation and consumption of RESTful APIs Strong in Python Back end Programming and high level of trouble shooting Familiarity with version control with GIT, BitBucket, SVN or similar Exposure to artificial intelligence/Machine Learning and Natural language Processing -nice to have Exposure to DevOps tools including Kubernetes Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system with possible vendor API integrations. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 Should be able to mentor and guide junior members