Technical Manager

About the role

• As a core member of BI and Analytics team, the Technical Manager (TM) is primarily responsible for three areas: managing technical staff, overseeing application development and accountable for production deployment and support transition efforts. Overall, the TM will contribute to the creation of a nimble and responsive application development organization.
• Works with cross-functional teams including Product Owners, Domain Architects, Solution Architects, Developers and Data Scientists to deliver BI and Analytics projects.
• Has overall accountability for successful application project delivery.
• Ensures that projects deliver not only on functionality, but also follow and enhance the overall GapTech platform, and adhere to GapTech methodology and technical strategy.
• Contributes to the creation and continuous improvement of a scalable application development organization.
• Fosters open communication within and between teams; Works closely with product management, upstream and downstream teams.
• Communicates effectively with IT management and senior leadership, including providing overall project status & health.
• Stays abreast of industry trends and best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Software Development experience with 3+ years as Technical Manager or Technical Lead
• 2+ years of experience in Hadoop technology stack - Map Reduce concepts, Distributed computing concepts, HDFS, Hive, Pig and Spark.
• Proficient in any one scripting language - Python, Perl, Ruby, Scala etc.
• Solid understanding of any RDBMS, Data warehousing concepts and data modeling concepts
• Familiar with Service Oriented Architecture Principles - Micro Services, JSON Structures, SOA integration patterns
• Strong knowledge in building data pipelines, ETL concepts, near real-time integration patterns and technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.
• Adapt to new tools and technologies in traditional BI & Analytics space and Hadoop ecosystem
• Passionate to understand complex data sets and help the team to build insights that drives business decisions
• Proficient in using Agile methodologies with a strong mindset to break-down complex requirements into milestones, features and user stories and focus on delivering MVP.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audience
• Manage business expectations, set realistic goals with stakeholders and deliver them
• Strong leadership skills to motivate and rally the team
• Effective collaboration skills in building partnerships with Product Owners, SME's, Senior Leaders, Program Managers, Architects and other Technology Leads
• Retail domain experience a big plus

Big data track specific skill set

• Solid understanding of math and statistical models, basic optimization techniques and predictive analytical models

Bi track specific skill set

• Experienced in any reporting tool - Microstrategy, Tableau, Power BI, Cognos, QlikView etc.