About the Role
Apollo Tyres is looking for an experienced, hands-on application Architect to join their Digital Engineering team. In this role, you’ll provide thought leadership around both back and front end architecture, application performance and scalability. You will lead and mentor engineering teams towards engineering excellence by establishing architecture / coding standards, implementing best practices, and making sure our Platforms and Architecture are best in class. You will develop innovative technology solutions to help drive key business initiatives in an Agile environment.
Requirements
Primary Responsibilities:
• Drive technology architecture of Apollo's application and platform stack
• Lead the team’s technical direction by exploring and implementing the best in class technologies and advocating the use of best practices, libraries, and tools for full stack development
• Work directly with partner engineering teams, other architects, product management and business stake holders to define contracts, dependencies and communicate technical capabilities
• Collaborate with UX, product managers, devops, front & back-end developers to deliver high quality experiences
• Collaborate with architects and engineering leadership on technology roadmap and strategy.
• Troubleshoot pre and post-production functional and non-functional issues
• Stay up to date on the latest industry technology trends and practices.
• Propose new ideas and best practices to improve performance and experience of the digital experience of Apollo's products
Core Competencies & Accomplishments:
Strong technical leadership skills
Expert experience building high-performant, heavy-traffic applications using modern Frameworks and third party libraries
Ability to review and provide feedback in code reviews.
Design reusable components (using design patterns). Experience with unit & test driven approach to development
Expert knowledge of build tools, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Experience with Restful API and API Security frameworks.
Extensive experience in identifying opportunities to improve performance, stability, and scalability of enterprise web applications
Work experience in Agile Scrum methodologies
Experience building applications using Adaptive/Responsive Design Principles and leveraging various applications layers to enhance performance
Experience with AWS cloud is preferred.
Familiarity with Data Structures, Algorithms, and general Computer Science Fundamentals good to have
Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience with application development; preferably 4+ years in C#.
• 5+ years of experience in technical leadership role.
About the Company
Apollo Tyres Ltd is an international tyre manufacturer and the leading tyre brand in India. It is built around the core principles of creating stakeholder value through reliability in its products and dependability in its relationships.
The company has a total of six manufacturing units -- 4 in India and 1 each in the Netherlands and Hungary. India’s fifth and 7th globally, is coming up in Andhra Pradesh.
The company markets its products under its two global brands – Apollo and Vredestein, and its products are available in over 100 countries through a vast network of branded, exclusive and multi-product outlets. The product portfolio of the company includes the entire range of passenger car, SUV, MUV, light truck, truck-bus, two-wheeler, agriculture, industrial, specialty, bicycle and off-the-road tyres, and retreading material and tyres.
Headquartered in Gurgaon, India, the company has a turnover of US$ 2.3 billion and ranks among the global top 20 tyre makers. Apollo Tyres has been recognized as the ‘Best Company To Work For’ both in Asia and Europe in the recent past, and has won several accolades for its HIV-AIDS awareness and prevention initiative for the trucking and allied communities, and for its Waste Management initiatives in the community.
Acquired entities: In November 2015, Apollo Tyres acquired Reifencom GmbH, one of the largest tyre distributors in Germany, with both online and offline presence. In May 2009, the company acquired Apollo Vredestein BV(originally Vredestein Banden BV) in the Netherlands, producer of niche high end passenger car and specialty tyres, and with an extensive distribution network across Europe.
Apollo Tyres is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Contextual description
"5" being most important and "1" being least important
1. Values
Weightage
Following Our Passion
4
We champion ideas that inspire us to think big, be brave and challenge the ordinary
One Family
5
We create an inclusive culture that brings our people, partners and community together
Taking Responsibility
4
We are committed to building a responsible and sustainable business that benefits society
2. Skills
Weightage
Full Stack Platform Development and Architecture
5
Excellent Object Oriented programming skills ideally within C#. Good working knowledge of both server side and frontend approaches, Expert experience building high-performant, data drive and client focused applications.
Governance
4
Ability to review and provide feedback in code reviews.
Define development standards and ensure modern approaches are adhered to
Putting security at the heart of the architecture
Partnership with Engineering and Product Teams
4
Work directly with partner engineering teams, Product Management and business stake holders to define contracts, dependencies and communicate technical capabilities
Collaborate with UX, product managers, devops, front & back-end developers to deliver high quality experiences
Collaborate with senior business and engineering leadership on technology roadmap and strategy.
Technical Software Engineering
4
• In-depth technical understanding of Software Applications, Web applications and Web services
• Demonstrated experience working in an architectural design lead role
• Strong history of Applications design and development
• C# (ideally .Net Core) or equivalent OO language
• Scripting languages such as JavaScript (any of the following good to have: Node.js, Vue.JS, React)
• Databases – SQL, RDMS or equivalent and NoSQL Databases such as MongoDB (nice to have)
• Design reusable components (using design patterns). Experience with unit & test driven approach to development
• Expert knowledge of build tools and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Experience with Restful API and API Security frameworks.
Experience building applications using Adaptive/Responsive Design Principles and leveraging various applications layers to enhance performance
• Extensive experience in identifying opportunities to improve performance, stability, and scalability of enterprise applications
Experience in Agile Scrum methodologies
• Understanding why and how to make cloud native applications
• Exposure to a range of languages and technologies viewed positively
Cloud
4
Significant experience in the use of cloud first application development. Demonstrable knowledge in cloud application architecture best practice
AWS is the preferred provider.
Not applicable
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Not applicable
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3. Demographics
Equal opportunity employer
Gender
Race & Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Veterans
Differently abled
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes