Job Description

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K-12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students' potential and extend teachers' capabilities.


HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. HMH Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is our technology and innovation arm in India focused on developing novel products and solutions using cutting-edge technology to better serve our clients globally. HMH aims to help employees grow as people, and not just as professionals.


As an IT Manager, Marketing Technology, you will lead one or more teams of full stack website developers working within an international Technology Solutions Group that has teams across the United States, Europe and Canada. Using your strong technical background and leadership skills, you will foster a productive culture and provide technical leadership, motivation and guidance to your teams. You will be accountable for quality of development efforts, performing code reviews, promoting website development best practices, as well as working with Architecture and InfoSec teams to determine and implement the best technical solutions. You will partner with Marketing Product Owners to define the roadmap and the overall strategy and vision for marketing technology. You will be a key guide to developers for their career development, yearly goal-setting and performance management, and ensure the teams are aware of the expectations of their role, and of the team generally. You will support the recruiting processes for your teams.

Leading Teams & Strategic Planning

You will be responsible for leading teams to design and deliver major software components, and collaborate with other managers and functions in the process. As a leader you will translate HMH's strategic vision and strategy into action, helping your teams understand their role in realizing this vision. You will be adept at building collaborative, motivated, interdependent teams who will work with product, design and architecture teams in the maintenance of existing web presences and delivery of optimizations to user experience and back end technical infrastructure, as well as key back end integrations with enterprise tools. You can demonstrate effective communication within the Information Technology group, and across business functions. You are adept at coaching and performance management of team members and ensure a focus on personal & career development. You play a leading role in attracting, hiring and retaining talent.

Developer Expertise

You will use your developer knowledge to identify and solve problems and to foresee potential issues and risks. You will manage risks and ensure effective escalation of issues which impact other teams. You will promote a creative culture that stimulates innovative approaches to solving problems. You encourage proactive, open communication and collaboration within your teams and between other teams and groups. Quality is non-negotiable in delivery. You will ensure high quality standards and practices are followed in your team(s) and the end product is robust, high-availability best-in-class website applications.

How We Work (Competencies):

A focus on customers - our goal is to make products which delight our customers Foster engagement - you will be responsible for building engaged, motivated teams Value differences - we rely on a cross-collaborative culture where diverse opinions and ideas are encouraged Drive results - when our teams know what to do, you will ensure our end goals are met Instill Trust - build your teams' network within our Technology Solutions Group

Technology Stack at HMH:

We give you the best tools and latest technologies to keep you learning and growing. Here's a small sample of our tech stack;

Methodology - Scrum, Lean and Agile Microservices - Java, Spring Boot, Maven, NodeJS, Cloud/Container technologies - AWS, Docker and Kubernetes Development tools - GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Datadog Database technologies - PostgreSQL, GraphQL, MySQL, Elastic Search and Redis Operating frameworks - Apache Kafka CI/CD - Jenkins, Concourse QE tools - jUnit / xUnit, Mockito / Moq, Supertest, Ava Web technologies - ReactJS, ECMAScript6, Node/NPM, Jenkins, GIT, nginx, AWS, CMS, CDP, and marketing automation technology

Skills & Experience:

10+ years of experience in Marketing Technology/full stack website development 3 to 5 years' end-to-end people management experience Experience working with a team on a large project in an Agile environment Experience working with JVM-based languages such as Java Experience with test-driven development, building test plans, unit tests, and automated testing frameworks Experience in analyzing and scaling large systems, web development, Javascript frameworks (e.g., ReactJS), or DevOps/infrastructure tasks Experience in Spring Boot, web services, building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc. Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes Proficient with code versioning tools such as CVS, SVN and Git Experience in cloud technologies (AWS/Azure) and systems like Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Amazon Kinesis, etc. Have SQL and No-SQL database experience (Postgres/MySql/Oracle and MongoDB / CosmosDB /RavenDB or CouchDB, etc) Think in CI/CD and DevOps mindset/culture Preferably experience with serverless (Functions/Lambda or containers)

Required Education:

A BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a STEM field

HMH Technology Private Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.