Knoldus - Senior Principal Consultant/Senior Technical Architect

Company Profile:

Knoldus is a new age startup which is trying to disrupt the Reactive Software Development, Analytics, Machine Learning and Fast Data space. Locations: Knoldus is incorporated in India, Singapore, US and Canada and is 100+ people overall. Wondering who we are? We are the only company which has the distinction of being Select partners with Lightbend (Scala ecosystem) Databricks (Spark in the Big Data space) Confluent (Kafka ecosystem) Datastax (Cassandra and Graph ecosystem) We started working on the Scala ecosystem and Spark in 2009 and have gained an industry reputation of being a goto company for Reactive and Fast Data product development. Some of our marquee clients include Google, HPE, EY, Elsevier, BoA, Cisco, VMWare, Huawei, Philips and quite a few silicon valley startups which have gone from being 2 people companies to 50 million dollars + companies Our process focus Strongly Agile and NO to CMM Knoldus software development model called Knolway is based upon the best Agile practices built on the combination of Scrum and XP where concepts such as Domain Driven Design, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development and Pair Programming are used extensively. 

 What do we offer?

 1. Opportunity to work with top-notch people who are authors, write blogs, contribute to open source community, speak at conferences.  

2. Various social events organized by Knoldus (eg. Community events and conferences with the Industry leaders) 

 3. Flat organization no hierarchies. 

 4. Official time for doing your own professional growth which includes open source projects, blogging, pod-casting and technical article publishing. Visit http://blog.knoldus.com 

 5. Weekly knowledge sharing program. 

See http://knolx.knoldus.com 

 6. Cubicle free workspace, relaxed and fun-filled work atmosphere.

 Learn more about us: http://www.knoldus.com

Requirement of Sr. Principal Consultant with Entrepreneurial mindset - Knoldus - Noida.

Knoldus Software LLP.

Open position:

- Entrepreneur Knol (Principal Consultant)/Technical Architect

- Yes, you read it right! If you are an entrepreneur who wants to make it big in the functional programming world then we would like you to talk to us. You would be running entire operations of a Knoldus location!

- Knoldus is an organization which helps partners right from Startups to Fortune 500 realize their product dream. The products that we create are Scalable, Resilient and highly performant. They would harness the power of the machine like no other. The technology of choice are based on the Typesafe stack augmented with strong Agile focus and skills of the team at Knoldus. We are one of the forerunners on Big Data Analytics and Big Data Crunching using functional programming.

Technical Skills:

- Battle scars from building reliable web-scale systems.

- Passion for building products used by hundreds of millions worldwide.

- Experience building large scale, high performance distributed systems.

- Excellent programming skills in Java or Scala.

- Experience with Storm, Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, Neo4j.

- Experience with high availability systems is a strong plus.

Other skills:

- You are a team motivator and not a boss. At Knoldus respect comes with knowledge and not with years of experience.

- Started or been closely associated with people who started a company earlier. - If you failed in doing that then you have the scars which make you even better.

- Be responsible for the technical design and experience in guiding/mentoring others.

- Able to work in a no-hierarchy environment, and fast sprint work cycles.

- Excellent analytical aptitude and problem solving skills.

- Excellent communication and customer interfacing skill.

Constantly upgrade self-knowledge & share with team.

Team player skills:

- At Knoldus respect comes with knowledge and not with years of experience.

- Blogger, Conference Speaker, Open Source Contributor.

KRA:

- Customer Management

- Manage client requests and expectations; coordinate with the client engineering team

- Assist On-site Coordinator to Set/ negotiate expectations

- Understand (implicit and explicit) customer feedback and adopt in the subsequent deliveries

Project Management:

- Primarily responsible for successful completion of the project on time, on budget, specification with an objective to delight and satisfy customers

- Performing basic project management activities such as planning, budgeting, resource allocation, high utilization, estimation etc

- Providing technical vision for project(s) (Incase of Technical Manager's)

- Primary responsibility for project execution, meeting timelines, achieving planned milestones, ensuring quality of deliverables sent to client, project monitoring & control, and project closure.

- Engage client in all project life cycle activities for quality delivery and reducing risk

- Ensure project documentation is in place, complete, and of good quality and kept in versioning tool

- Supervise and manage project development effort estimation and precisely calculate project size.

- Convey and convince Project Estimation to the client

- Set architectural and design Guidelines and Checklist

- Manage customization, integration and QA activities

- Supervise, schedule and allocate tasks, integrate, review and produce status reports

Account Mining:

- Mine the client account for more avenues of working together.

- Discover and create opportunities.

- Ensure account profitability.

Organizational activities:

- Help in Building future capabilities for the company - both with regard to technology development and managerial talent - in line with the company's overall long term strategy.

- Communicate company plans and future strategy to the team members with discretion, with the aim of keeping them involved and informed.

- Liaison with other Project managers/project leads to help solve technical issues at a quick pace, and provide for re-use of components/functionalities wherever possible.

- Establishing, updating and sharing good practices and processes for designing, coding, testing, team collaboration, knowledge sharing, communication, configuration management, documentation, etc. for project.

- Ensure compliance of the performance measurement processes laid down by the organization.

- Participating in Staffing activities of the organization.

- Enabling a professional and friendly work environment.

- Assistance in POC and contribute to RFPs.

Desirables:

- Strong focus on technology, you would have presented at conferences, authored books, have an active blog site and strong presence on GitHub

- Have lead teams to build a company. Apart from the technology you have it in you to build business lines. Work with group of people and convert them into a team. - Work with teams to convert them into a company.

- Expertise in object-oriented programming with strong coding and debugging abilities.

- Ability to resolve technical queries/issues of their team members.

- Grasp the big picture, and be curious about and engaged in the broader world.

- Nimble and flexible enough to thrive in a rapidly evolving business environment.

- An independent thinker and not a technologist who just executes on specs.

- Able to have big thoughts and the courage to voice them.

- Enthusiastic for emerging technologies.

Experience / Qualifications:

- 10+ years of industry experience.

- An expert on architecture and design.

- Prior Java background knows Hadoop, spark, flink, Elastic search, ML, Data science etc.

- Has worked on Scala (Bonus)

Thought leader, that we need for this stage of Knoldus, must have the following -

- Passionate about technology. Inclined towards Java tech stack Must.

- Loves R&D & experiments.

- Actively contribute to open source, blogs etc

- Strongly delivery focused and knows how to set clear expectations.

- Is a team player and knows how to take the team along to get the work delivered

- Deadline focused and understands Agile work culture at the very start.

Experience

- Preferably growing a service-based startup

- Hands-on with technical solution[-ing] and mindset of a problem solver.

- Client interactions

- Mtech/MS/MCA/Btech/PHD in computer science, information systems, or similar technical field would be the preferred.