Job Description:

1) Work together with the Product Owner to plan and execute projects, ensure that teams have appropriate product and technical specifications, direction, and resources to deliver products effectively by establishing realistic estimates for timelines while ensuring that projects remain on target to meet deadlines.
2) Work closely with the Product Owner, Sales, and Business Analysts, for understanding the system’s function and non-functional requirements.
3) Collaborate with the Product Management in defining the Product Vision.
4) Demonstrate to our clients with the deployment of software upgrades, enhancements and fixes that are coordinated based on release schedules.
5) Provide a software development plan that meets the future needs of our clients and markets, based on the state-of‐the-art technologies.
6) Design and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated systems.
7) Deliver architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency inline with business strategy.
8) Evolve the existing software system applications and architecture in various areas as needed.
9) Maintain in-depth knowledge of the organization’s technologies and architectures.
10) Develop and maintain current and planned state architectural blueprints.
11) Develop and maintain a aspirational architectural road map for the enterprise.
12) Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies.
13) Provide architectural direction to Enterprise Architects, Business Architects and Solution Architects.
14) Develop architectural metrics and reports for the executive team, business and IT management.
15) Deliver requisite program documentation including program charters, schedules, requirements documents, specifications, design documents and testing strategies.
16) Provide architectural consulting to programs, projects and initiatives.
17) Coordinate release and sprint planning.
18) Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development.
19) Monitor individual employees’ performance.

Projects:

1) Manage large and complex IT programs and projects.
2) Build relationships with executive project sponsors and senior technology leadership.
3) Direct and manage projects from conceptualization to implementation.
4) Provide consulting to projects to estimate work packages and identify architectural approaches.
5) Provide consulting to projects to identify project, architecture and security risks.
6) Deliver projects on-time and on-budget.
7) Ensure that all deliverables are high quality and meet business functional and non-functional requirements.
8) Ensure that all deliverables follow IT standards and best practices.

Qualifications:

1) Bachelor or master’s degree in computer science or related field.
2) Minimum 10 years of management / leadership experience in a software development organization required.
3) Must have at least 10 to 15 years working through the design, development, release cycle, and delivering software products to market.
4) Age up to 40 – 45 years
5) Semi-retired US Returned persons
6) A record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual, team leader and / or development manager.
7) Strong understanding of the software development life cycle.
8) Strong leadership, project management skills, time management, and problem solving skills.
9) Must have good oral and written communication skills in English.

Knowledge & Skills:

1) VB .Net, ADO.Net, ASP.Net
2) Knowledge in relational databases (RDBMS , MS SQL, MySQL / Oracle)
3) Experience with Scrum methodology and Agile practices.
4) Experience with managing the development of SaaS and cloud‐based applications.
5) Experience in Java programming and J2EE / JBoss application server software development (EJB,JMS,JDBC,JTA)
6) Webservice – SOAP/REST, HTML, J/VB Scripts, XML
7) SSRS/Crystal – Reporting Tool
8) MsVisio /MS Projects
9) Knowledge of Hibernate framework
10) Willingness to dive into software environments and technical issues
11) Word, Excel, Power Point

Interpersonal Skills:

1) Self-motivated, Team player, Action‐and‐Results oriented.
2) Well organized good communication and reporting skills.
3) Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.