Overview

SUMMARY

• The technical manager provides technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration. This position involves guiding technical leads in ensuring the solution design is implemented in a technically sound fashion. This role also reviews the work involved and follows the project through testing and production deployment phases.
• The technical manager works collaboratively with clients/users/Onsite team, the development team, and various stakeholders within the company to ensure the delivery of all products in an efficient, timely manner.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical direction for the design, development, and systems integration right from the definition phase through implementation.
• Works with product management in prioritization of requests for new and existing product functionality as per client needs and product roadmap.
• Govern code review, security review, and performance review processes.
• Ensure release commitments are met with a robust DevOps strategy.
• Work cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure seamless delivery takes place within the lifecycle of existing products
• Must coach and mentor teams in terms of enhancing their technical strengths
• Organize and plan process improvements involving quality of deliverables including coding practices, automated unit testing, code review, security, performance, and branching processes.
• Will be needed to work with clients or client representatives to talk about our technology aspects and ensure that the Scrum Masters have the needed support to walk through technical issues if any.
• Should be able to work with people from a process and mentoring basis.
• Easily recognizes system deficiencies and implements effective solutions.
• Ideal candidate should have worked in product companies and multiple release cycles which also involved technical solutioning
• Facilitates team meetings effectively
• Holds regular status meetings with the development team and other Senior Managers.
• Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations to large teams including executive members
• Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion
• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
• Astute cross-cultural awareness and experience in working with international teams (especially US Leadership)
• Manage the development of the team by ensuring that project tasks are in line with each team member’s career interests when possible
• Set and manage performance objectives for the engineering team and inspires the team to attain goals and pursue excellence
• Identify opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change
• Remain at the forefront of emerging industry practices
• Experience in HealthCare product development and data standards like HL7, EDI, and CCD will be an added advantage

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Manager is a supervisory role. You will act independently to determine methods and procedures for new or special assignments.
  This role is responsible for hiring, performance management, growth, and development of the team

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION & SKILLS

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field
  12+ years of related experience.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Experience in leading the development of .NET solutions (Strong .NET skills with MVC, jQuery, Web services/Web API/REST) for enterprise-scale applications.
• Understands & designs complex databases, and performance scaling concepts and effectively employs different database /application design techniques to ensure they scale.
• Expertise in OOPs, Design Patterns, and Best Practices in SOA
• Exposure to tools on performance and security as well as code coverage and automated unit testing for MVC/jQuery/WCF services applications
• Strong delivery capability in an agile development environment.
• Proven track record of delivering complex enterprise-class products on time and with superior quality
• Preferred skills: DevOps - SVN, GIT/ BitBucket, Team City/Jenkins, Enterprise Service Bus, API management tools like WSO2, Layer7, stargate, Micro Services/ Caching techniques / ORM, Rules Engines
• Knowledge Release management, Azure/ Amazon Cloud or FICO will be added advantage.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to lead and coach big teams
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Proven track record of delivering complex enterprise-class products on time and with superior quality

LOCATION/TRAVEL

• This position is located at the Hyderabad office, India.