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JOB DESCRIPTION

Line of Business Retail Band Individual Contributor

Service Line Technology Job Role Specialist
Function Big Data Title Technical Architect

Reporting relationship:

Reporting to Head of SL
Indicative Reportees 0 to 2

Profile Description:

This person’s key responsibility is to build the next generation of BiG Data analytical platform
integrating multiple very large-scale data sources.

Key Responsibilities:

o Understand the business of Ugam and client needs in specific

o Understand the functional, and non-functional, requirements and help define technical
specifications for modular development
o Interact with customers, partners and vendors as and when required
o Stay updated on the latest trends/ technologies for cloud enablement and evaluate
platform capabilities vis-à-vis the trends; plan the roadmap to incorporate the required
functionality
o Involved in research, system design, prototyping, development, testing, benchmarking and
coordination across teams
o Responsible for right design and development of multi-tiered, distributed architecture,
scalable applications
o Provides guidance to project teams regarding architecture principles and standards,
technology tools, system and application design, coding and design standards, best
practices, and system performance and availability.
o Technical assessment (e.g. platforms, tool proliferation, age of underlying technologies,
uptime/availability, business processes)
o Help recruit technical leads and developers into the organization
o Designs complex systems at the component level and directly supervises the quality of
designs and implementation within and between components
o Support and create a standard framework for development projects and a common
library of re-usable components.
o Participate in critical analysis of test results and deliver solutions to problem areas.
o Adhere to procedures like communication protocols, operational practices / procedures,
Information security practices, attendance procedures, etc.
o Participate and actively contribute in review meetings.
o Buddy up with junior members of the team and up-skill them
o Ability to mentor and guide team members effectively
o Ability to handle ambiguity and make decisions through balanced trade-off assessments around
speed, cost, features and business criticality

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KSC for this role:

KNOWLEDGE
− Graduate / Post-Graduate in Computer Science, or equivalent
Qualification:

Certifications − NA
(if any):
Relevant − 10 to 15 years of experience in software development
experience: − Extensive experience with object-oriented software development
methodologies and practices.
− Experience in Agile/ Iterative development projects
− Experience with a range of big data architectures, such as
OpenStack, Hadoop, Pig, Hive or other big data frameworks
− Must have Architected and Delivered at least one Enterprise Class
Application End to End

SKILLS
Technical/Domain: − Mastery in Java programming
− Expertise in the following:
- OOAD/OOPS/UML, Design Patterns, MVC, Spring, Hibernate,
Java, J2EE
- Exposure to JSP, JSF, Java Script Library such as jQuery, Ajax
and UI frameworks
- Exposure to component model design, SOA, open source
framework/tools
- Web Services, JSON, JMS, XML, SQL
- Exposure to Test Driven Development/Re-factoring
ideas/Domain driven design patterns/Continuous
Integration/Build Automation/Data-Mapper framework/Mocks
- Background in implementing n-tier, Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and MVP/MVC architecture.
− Broad understanding and experience of real-time analytics, NoSQL
data stores, data modeling, data management and analytical
tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout)
− Well versed with tools for: Development, Refactoring, Unit Testing,
Design, Data Modeling, Profiling, Benchmarking

COMPETENCIES
Behavioural: − Communication
− Learnability
− Teamwork
− Result Orientation
− Problem Solving
− Business Acumen
− People Management

Location: Mumbai/Bangalore (Should be willing to take short/long term transfers across

different geographies and/or roles)

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Unique Circumstances:

Time Zone Work in client specific time zones (PST, EST, CST, GMT) is possible

Travel Some travel (national/international) may be required