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JOB DESCRIPTION Role Proficiency: Independently leverages technical expertise to select appropriate technical options for development after total understanding of complex product requirements based on customer discovery process assists Specialist Outcomes: Enable the building of a robust Product Development Strategy Ensure product requirements and user stories are clearly understood from the customer discovery process Create effort estimation and ETA for the deliverables ensuring adherence to timelines/SLAs wherever applicable Enable solutioning for complex technology problems write code for very critical modules/complex algorithms develop complex features and unit test cases Ensure execution of test cases and preparation of release document in line with requirements Adhere to best practices and standards provide periodic status updates Ensure career progression for Product Engineering Lead I via focused mentoring and grooming Ensure high quality of deliverables via thorough reviews adhering to prescribed quality standards Ensure hiring of right candidates via technical assessments for the Product Engineering Lead role Optimises efficiency cost and quality Influence and improve customer satisfaction Set OKRs for self/team and also provide feedback to these goals of team members Measures of Outcomes: Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards) Adherence to project schedule and timelines Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project Number of defects in the code Number of defects post delivery Number of non-compliance issues Number of reusable components/libs developed Number of domain certification/ product certifications Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR Assignments HIG Stretch goals) Team\'s achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR Assignments HIG Stretch goals) Outputs Expected: Product Vision Strategy and Roadmap: Participate in product envisioning discussions provide inputs from development perspective which will help in shaping overall product strategy. Product Requirements: Understand critical / complex product requirements (functional and non-functional) Create a low-level design document (which captures class level diagram and attributes mapped to the class and sequence diagram) based on the understanding of high-level design Seek review inputs from the architect and incorporate the same Product Design and Development: Create POCs to identify the feasibility of new technologies / products share the findings with the architecture team Provides technical inputs for product research design analysis testing process improvement and complex troubleshooting for critical and large projects in the product development process. Build optimized modules in terms of performance without affecting functionality Under the guidance of Architects create high level software design (HLSD) documents Establish design standards and deliver solutions which meets product\'s functional and non-functional requirements Provide technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems Participate in architecture / code reviews to eliminate implementation problems early in development cycle Provide technical guidance to the team to resolve complex technical issues Product Testing: Conduct Integration testing and resolve defects/bugs during QA Testing Alpha Release Beta Release Post-Release patches for complex modules. Maintain code quality ensure code coverage. Technology Thought Leadership: Participate in various conferences seminars and webinars. Create blogs / white papers to showcase technology thought leadership Contribute inputs to create knowledge assets user manual online help document installation scripts and installation manual and leverage the same People Management: Train and mentor team members in product development track Build positive working relationship with the clients\' module leads Skill Examples: Uses Domain / Industry Knowledge to independently understand interact with SME at various stages of the development Use knowledge of Product Features / Functionality to understand the complex functionality in product to build training materials and assessments for the product. Share best practices with other teams leverage the best practices followed assess product suitability and feasibility. Provide / create a mechanism/model to calculate ROI for a feature roll-out Create Training plans/SOPs to help DevOps Engineers deal with already existing CI/CD Pipelines and components Deliver components that automates parts of the build/deploy lifecycle for products Configure a CI/CD pipeline that can be used by product development teams Use Technology Partnership Management knowledge to assess the identified vendors shortlist vendors such that product/service of the vendors enhance UST service offering. Leverage customer selection process information to calibrate own processes and guidelines create partnership strategy based on vendor capabilities and own needs Use User Experience Knowledge to understand user interface design and implication on product design and development. Improve product usability across the user base. Provide necessary inputs to design team that indicates the user profile/segments and savviness of these users so the right trade-off can be achieved Knowledge Examples: Domain / Industry Knowledge: Has working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical customer business domain Technology Trends Knowledge: Demonstrates broad knowledge of technology trends related to multiple inter-related technologies Has specialized knowledge of product architecture elements Proficient in object-oriented analysis and design and good knowledge on software design principles and patterns. Knowledge of the application development lifecycle preferably Agile and XP. Product Features / Functionality: Has specialized knowledge of the product Comprehension of Config/Build/Deploy processes and tools Knowledge of IAAS - Cloud providers (AWS Azure Google etc.) and their tool sets Knowledge of the application development lifecycle Knowledge of Quality Assurance processes Knowledge of Quality Automation processes and tools Awareness of multiple tool stacks not just one Knowledge of Build Branching/Merging Knowledge regarding containerization Technology Partnership Management: Has specialized knowledge of parameters for vendor evaluation User Experience Knowledge: Has basic knowledge of aspects that enhance product/systems usability and improve the overall user experience Additional Comments: Project Management Operations Management Product Engineering Hardware and Frimware expertise, Manufacturing expertise, customer interaction, communication

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