September 14, 2011

Lead Engineer-IT (Malaysia)


Position Title: Lead Engineer
This position reports to Project or Program Manager
Number of positions: 4
Department: Professional Services
Salary: About RM 8000
Relevant Experience Required: 3-4 years
Location: Malaysia
Duration of Contract: 1 year -- extend-able (Possibility of extension of contract every year, for several years)

Role Summary
The Professional Services Group is responsible for developing client mediation solutions, built on the company’s mediation product set, to customers. This will involve analysis of the customers’ business requirements and implementing a solution to meet these needs in rules based platform. The solution will typically be implemented in a combination of DSD, a tcl type scripting language, Shell scripts and in C/C++.
The role of Lead Engineer in Professional Services requires managing the task delivery and ensuring the technical integrity of a FW solution (or a significant subsystem, as part of a large overall solution).

Some of the tasks involved are:
Interfacing with Customers on requirements definition and all aspects of project delivery
Interfacing with the Product and Test Groups regarding product releases
Preparing and planning projects, and driving those plans through to a successful conclusion.
Interviewing and resourcing project teams
Managing and tracking effort and progress
Mentoring and review of engineers
Interfacing with Sales for new project requirements and commercial issues
Interfacing with the Support Team to hand over completed projects and to respond to any problem escalations from the Support Team
Principal Responsibilities:
Takes responsibility for the planning and delivery of projects to the market place. This involves taking requirements from multiple sources, like customers and equipment vendors; plus planning, resourcing and delivering the resultant projects on time and to budget.
Produces requirements, functional and design specifications in the course of implementing solutions. Oversees the technical design and technical implementation, guides and supports the engineering staff during the project.
Demonstrates an organised, systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to requirements definition, design, and implementation. Ensure that the team applies this approach in a coherent fashion to all aspects of the development life cycle.
Adopts an innovative and committed approach to overcoming obstacles and solving problems in order to successfully deliver on commitments.
Ability to plan, clearly monitor and report to Customers and internally within Services regarding project progress with respect to effort, cost and duration.
Has excellent oral and written communication skills for effective dialogue with customer representatives and with colleagues in Services and other departments.
Interfaces with the HR Manager regarding sourcing and interviewing staff
Able to represent the company at customer meetings, presentations and conferences

Interested candidates with relevant experience kindly send me there CVs at fatima.careerpk@gmail.com latest by 17th September 2011 with the subject line mentioned.