Zycus - Associate Director - Software Development

Description :

Associate Director will be responsible for technical ownership of an entire line of business or a horizontal platform, which extends to:

- Involvement in the full software development life cycle with stringent needs on (i) time to market, & (ii) quality of product - functional and non-functional aspect.

- Ownership of complex software architectures, operational metrics, and running the day to day business operations.

- Designing and defining the interaction between the different components and teams.

- Work closely with peers and product managers to develop great technical design and approach for new product development.

- Definition of, and compliance with, a world-class build/release and configuration management process.

- This position will report in to Director - Engineering & the roles & responsibilities are as below:

- Identify the technologies that would be used for the product.

- Recommend the development methodology and framework for the project.

- Provide the overall design and structure to the application.

- Ensure that the product is adequately defined & documented.

- Establish design/coding guidelines and best practices, and drive usage of design patterns.

- Enforce compliance with coding guidelines using code reviews etc.

- Build solution which is easily configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment.

- Responsible for planning product iterations & releasing iterations on schedule.

Requirements :

The Applicant with a total experience of 10-20 years, should have hands-on development experience in Core Java and J2EE with proven expertise in writing application architecture and core design ground up with sound algorithmic thought process enabling bullet-proof application performance in terms of key drivers like security, load, scalability, etc.

Skills and Technologies:

- Versatile experience with delivering highly available services on multiple technology stacks in traditional data centers, public clouds, and private clouds.

- Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate,Angular/react, JMS/Rabbit MQ/Kafka, Web-Services, Mongo, Snowflake/Dremio, Oracle, MSSQL, JSP-Servlets,, Design Patterns.

- Nice to have: New edge technology (Hadoop, AWS, Spark, RabbitMQ etc)

Team mentoring:

- Mentor developers for difficult tasks & provide technical advice and guidance to the Tech Leads.

- Guide the team is doing POCs and early risk assessments.

Leadership Abilities:

- Optimize & effectively manage resources and time of the team members.

- Identify, track and mitigate risks to the product

- Should not hesitate to carry out healthy and constructive confrontation with team members, peers and managers for the benefit of Product.

Benefits :

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus

Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world's leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.

Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

About Us:

Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester and other analysts as a leader for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions; and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end users.

Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.

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