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Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Job Vacancies at Sapient

Company Name: Sapient

Job Title: Senior Manager, Technology – Jjava (Senior Architect)

Function: Information Technology
 
Location : Gurgaon / Bangalore

Business Unit: Sapient Nitro
 
Job Purpose
The senior manager, technology provides technical leadership throughout the lifecycle of a project, including direction on systems architecture, reuse, and development processes. This role is responsible for guiding the design, user interface, and technology integration of projects and interfacing with client technology and management teams. Will also bring their experience to research and inform on enterprise-wide trends.
 
Job Responsibilities
Utilize deep understanding of package solutions and recommend when appropriate. Decide on the technology stack depending on the requirement
Drive the architecture finalization effort. Able to understand the current client landscape, drive the proof of concepts, if required, identify the re-usable components, employ best practices towards this effort
Utilizes oo design principles in creating complex custom software solutions or modifying package solutions. Identifies the limits of the tools being used and recommends. Identifies the design vs. Implementation tradeoffs with the tools being used. Owns the design of a module
Translates the impact of design on non-functional requirements like scalability, performance, availability and security into the project. Leads a team of sapient and client people in business and technical designs of a module. Manages dependencies across other modules
Translates the client’s business requirements into a component design. Challenges business design and creates alternative business design solutions
Writes bug free code. Strives for a deep understanding and expertise with the tools being used. Sets standards for the team. Coaches associates, sr. Associates, managers, and sr. Managers, technology on the team. Identifies problem areas in their module and actively works to fix them
Understand the steps required to deploy an application
Leverages their knowledge of the stages of the one team approach. Utilizes the deliverables from other disciplines and ota phases. Plans and drives: business design, technical design, development, stabilization, pilot, parallel, production tracks, cut-over and support
Promotes the value of project processes and establishes these processes on a new project. Educates and ensures that team follows processes. Defines and assesses completeness of work
Drives mid-level planning exercises. Plans for a module with a team of 4-6 engineers. Manages and tracks plans of engineers in their module. Anticipates issues and risks at the module level and escalates appropriately
Actively manages scope at the module level and identifies alternatives. Quickly evaluates loe, complexity and risk involved in adding a scope item
Is well versed in relevant methodology, processes, tools and technology standards and can effectively chose relevant parts needed for the project
Identify and manage risk on the project
Effectively and accurately estimates loe for their module. Reviews other’s estimates and points out improvements. Assesses how project risks will impact estimates
Mentors other associates, sr. Associates and managers on the team
Actively work with the account team to establish strategy for the account
Represent the organization in customer-facing communication pertinent to sapient’s technical expertise on the specific platform
Participates in extending knowledge of their area of specialization within sapient. Guides a team in using their area of expertise
Reviews implementation models and recommends pros/cons of different approaches. Participates in accumulating and disseminating specialty best practices
Attends marketing shows and events and can evaluate vendors and influence sapient’s technology investment. Applies vendor’s application programming model and sapient’s position on it
 
Skill Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required
Minimum of 6 years experience in enterprise architecture, systems integration, package implementation, and /or interactive design and architecture experience
Prior experience in a consulting firm preferred
Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively manage client accounts and multi-task sapient teams
Proven leadership and managerial skills to independently manage 30+ people, during multiple phases of the project lifecycle
Experience providing a vision to the total solution, managing a track of work and defining a comprehensive solution leading toward a common vision
Frequent travel is required
Experience in: integration and development, package implementation, interactive design, knowledge of multiple technologies including (but not limited to): core java, java ee (jsp, servlet, ejb/spring), html/xhtml, xml, struts/jsf/spring mvc, javascript/jquery, flex/javafx/jason/gwt, web services (soap/rest, tools like axis/cxf), application servers and web servers (tomcat, jboss/oracle weblogic/ibm websphere), middleware (tibco/ibm/oracle, esbs), database fundamentals (sql/pl-sql) and frameworks (hibernate/toplink), unit testing frameworks (junit), code quality plug-ins (pmd, checkstyle) and build and deployment tools (ant/maven/ivy).
Also need to be an expert in planning/execution & tracking, scoping and estimating, data modeling, high availability and failover applications, logical architecture design, ooad and uml, package/vendor selection, performance/capacity planning.

Qualification:
Full Time Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree (science or engineering preferred)

About Us:
Our story is the world’s story: one of change.we began as a business & it consulting company.
Then the internet arrived and altered the business landscape forever.
Our consulting and technology roots served us well, giving us the unique ability to bridge the gaps between strategy, creativity, and execution, creating a seamless digital dialogue between a brand and its customers.
The same customers, and the very same technology, that are now responsible for the dynamic, consumer centric business world in which we live.
A world that most businesses are neither prepared for nor equipped to address.
Sapient is comprised of three business groups each as unique as the industries and audiences they serve. And yet, what unifies us, what makes us greater than the sum of our parts is our global signature. A signature in the form of a simply stated, yet profound point of fact: we make businesses more efficient, profitable, and prepared to succeed in today’s ever evolving, always challenging, technology fueled business world.we began as one thing, and became something else. That’s transformation.
That is our business.

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