Engineering Lead - Bangalore/Pune/Gurgaon/Gurugram/Noida, India - ZS

Description

Role :
Architecture & Engineering Lead

ZS is a professional services firm that works side by side with companies to help develop and deliver products that drive customer value and company results. From R&D to portfolio strategy, customer insights, marketing and sales strategy, operations and technology, we leverage our deep industry expertise and leading-edge analytics to create solutions that work in the real world. Our most valuable asset is our people-a fact that's reflected in our values-driven organization in which new perspectives are integral and new ideas are celebrated. ZSers are passionately committed to helping companies and their customers thrive in industries ranging from healthcare and life sciences, to high-tech, financial services, travel and transportation, and beyond.

ZS's India Capability & Expertise Center (CEC) houses more than 60% of ZS people across three offices in New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru. Our teams work with colleagues across North America, Europe and East Asia to create and deliver real world solutions to the clients who drive our business. The CEC maintains standards of analytical, operational and technological excellence across our capability groups. Together, our collective knowledge enables each ZS team to deliver superior results to our clients.

ZS's Digital & Technology group drives measurable impact to client business performance through technology-enabled products and solutions, and consistent best-in-class delivery, at a global scale. ZS's Digital and Technology practice success is driven by collaborating with our domain practices and client teams to embed digital and technology assets and innovations in their services and helping them create a harmonized and distinct ZS technology experience for our clients.

ZS's Architecture & Engineering Expertise Center group brings deep specialization across niche technologies with skills to play as hands-on developer, designer and architect roles. Team members will be expected to rapidly learn new technologies and become experts with industry certified credentials. A large portion of EC members are expected to drive research and asset development as part of ZS' Enterprise Services Center of Excellence (ESCOE), while others would be part of client teams, pod teams, or practice teams supporting client projects and solutions based on dominant technologies used in respective teams / clients while also staying abreast with everything happening in ESCOE to bring new ideas and technologies to their teams.

Responsibilities :

• Deep specialist in building end to end data and analytics platforms or applications
• Capable of leading other engineers to achieve established goals, such as delivering new features or functionality
• Drive major features and applicationwide or systemwide changes working closely with the architect. For example, architecture redesign, switch to a new technology, complex module addition
• End to end ownership of design with close eye for nonfunctional requirements for scalability, maintainability, performance, and so on; working closely with architects where necessary
• Review individual work plans before implementation to identify potential issue areas and/or reduce rework and increase productivity of engineers
• Performs design/ code reviews of the team to identify issues/risks and ensure robustness
• Drive estimation of technical components and tracks team's progress
• Drive technical discussions / demos / presentations with client stakeholders, demonstrating deep expertise and quality of designs
• Maintain a culture of rapid learning and explorations to drive innovations / POCs on niche technologies and architecture patterns
• Mentor and groom technical talent within the team and expertise center

Qualifications :

• Minimum of 7+ years of handson experience in developing data management solutions solving problems in OMICS domain

Required to have :

• Experience in configuration and deployment of OMICS workflows from NextFlow or using CWL & WDL highly desirable.
• Good Experience with services like AWS Omics, Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for Genomics & others desirable
• Experience with DNANexus, 7bridges or similar OMICS platforms required

Strong experience in one or more of the following :

• Cloud based Data Processing Platforms offerings
• AWS EMR, Snowflake, Databricks (Certification will be a plus)

• ETL tools

• Cloud based tools
• Well versed with cloud computing offerings ( AWS or Azure) and GCP
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, R, or Java

Preferred/Good To Have :

• MLOps expertise leveraging ML Platforms like Dataiku, Databricks, Sagemaker
• Experience with Other technologies like Data Sharing (eg. Starburst), Data Virtualization (Denodo), API Management (mulesoft etc) will be a plus
• Cloud Solution Architect certification (like AWS SA Professional or others).
• Well aware of Industry followed data security and governance norms
• Strong organizational and leadership skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computational Biology, Computer Science, or a related field. Ph.

D. is preferred.

• Advanced knowledge of data management tools and frameworks, such as SQL/NoSQL, ETL/ELT tools, and data visualization tools across various private clouds

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