Development Manager

Fulcrum Digital is an agile and nextgeneration digital accelerating company providing digital transformation and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services have applicability across a variety of industries including banking & financial services insurance retail higher education food healthcare and manufacturing.

The Role:

• Involved in engineering practices to help build Java applications.
  Create Proof of concept for developing Java Applications for payments systems
  Handson experience in Java Development (Java 8/11 J2EE JMS (Java Messaging Service) Spring boot Microservices AWS
  
• Liaise with Functional Analyst to create design documents and develop solutions.
  
• Manage a team of designers developers and testers to deliver the outcome.
  
• Drives execution of an outcome from inception through successful delivery through the full stack of the development services or an outcome that spans multiple teams and integrations across the enterprise.
  
• Looked at as the first point of contact for the technical teams.
  

Job Description:

• A Development Manager is responsible for managing and leading the technical team from inception to delivery.
  
• This role involves working closely with crossfunctional teams including engineering product management and operations to ensure that projects are delivered on time within budget and meet the required quality standards.
  

Responsibilities:

• Define and manage development scope objectives and outcomes.
  
• Develop and manage development plans schedules and budgets.
  
• Identify assess and manage risks and issues.
  
• Lead crossfunctional teams to ensure delivery and success.
  
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among stakeholders.
  
• Track and report development progress issues and risks to senior management.
  
• Drive continuous improvement in development processes and practices.
  
• Collaborate with engineering to develop technical solutions that meet project requirements.
  
• Provide mentorship and guidance to the development teams.
  

Understanding of event-driven architectures Distributed systems - How clusters are formed, Quorum management, Failure handling. 3 to 5 years of hands-on Experience in MQ or NATS broker or similar messaging solutions. Understanding of Kafka clustering would be good to have. Knows Client-Server communication aspects - sockets, TLS protocol etc Understands the concept of region and AZs. Provide L2 support production systems like application, database, middleware components, infrastructure and network components. Manage production incidents end-to-end within defined SLAs with focus on resolution rather than who caused it. Interact with various stakeholders such as Release managers, program leads, service managers, development and test leads Review operational readiness requirements such as monitoring and alerting, log rotation and resilience of the components and report the gaps Provide pre-implementation support with activities such as release notes review and implementation dry runs. Protect production components by running health checks monitoring latency and memory utilization. Automate day-to-day activities and propose changes that improve reliability Participate in CAB and provide feedback on change requests Support the DevOps team in testing the promoted pipelines and suggest automation of configuration items. Practice incident management best practices and perform RCA. Participate in disaster recovery tests and operational acceptance tests Analyze the technology stack that makes up the product and optimize recovery time objective. Work with team members spread across and time zones Share knowledge, document improvements and mentor junior resources It is good to have skills using Jenkins to orchestrate builds and link to Sonar, Maven, etc. to build out the CI/CD pipeline. Support deployments of code into multiple lower environments. Supporting current processes needed with an emphasis on automating everything as soon as possible. It is good to have skill to design, Implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef. We need proven experience designing and implementing an overall release and deployment process. It is good to have skill to design and implement a Git based code management strategy that will support multiple environment deployments in parallel. Experience with automation for Branch management, code promotions, and version management. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement. Requirements MQ/EB Understanding of event-driven architectures Distributed systems - How clusters are formed, Quorum management, Failure handling. 3 to 5 years of hands-on Experience in MQ or NATS broker or similar messaging solutions. An understanding of Kafka clustering would be good to have. Knows Client-Server communication aspects - sockets, TLS protocol etc Understand the concept of region and AZs. Deployments MTF/Prod, Maintenance items (including stop/start, Disaster Recovery-related activities, etc.), CR for changes in MTF/Prod Good knowledge on Nginx Tools - Log Monitoring Tool - Splunk Application Monitoring tool - Dynatrace Ticketing incident/problem management tool - Remedy Dev-ops Basics - CI-CD Basics, Overview of Git, Bit-bucket, SonarQube, Ansible/Chef Skills - Linux & Shell Scripting ITIL / ITSM PL/SQL Troubleshooting Jenkins - CI/CD Groovy Scripting/Yaml Ansible/Chef Nginx Java / JEE Event-Driven Architectures MQ or NATS broker or similar messaging solutions. Kafka Client-server communication aspects - sockets, TLS protocol Understand the concept of region and AZs.