Technical Design Lead, Azure

Job Description

KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to shape the future of the industry with new technologies and sustainable innovations. We are now looking for a Technical Design Lead, Azure As a Technical Design Lead you take accountability and responsibility for upholding the integrity and quality of the technical designs of KONE IT Azure across their lifecycle. You guide teams to ensure that the technical designs and configurations are not only fit for purpose, but also continuously optimized and future proof. Technical Design Lead collaborates both with their own team and other relevant teams and ensures that planned changes are implemented in technically correct way. They validate and approve the technical designs during the incremental product development. Taking a lifecycle view, Technical Design leads play an active role in identifying opportunities to improve service performance and resolving critical situations in production. Technical Design Lead provides crucial hands-on support to platform and product owners on technical matters including, for example, identifying and resolving technical dependencies and identifying and addressing technical debt in the platforms and products. The position is based in Chennai or Pune, India and will report to the Platform Manager, Data Center & Cloud Platforms. Main Responsibilities Collaborate with product owners and team members to clarify proposed changes to IT products and platforms from a technical point of view. Bring the technical perspective during backlog refinement and prioritization, including scoping technical changes and estimating their complexity and efforts. Ensure the integrity and quality of technical designs throughout the lifecycle of IT products and platforms. Create fit-for-purpose technical designs to implement prioritized backlog items, ensuring non-functional requirements are addressed. Maintain alignment of technical designs with applicable quality and compliance standards, including cybersecurity and data models. Responsible for keeping the complexity of technical designs low, by for example, minimizing custom implementations and actively promoting out of the box functionality where applicable. Plan and implement technical dependencies between IT products and platforms in accordance with agreed architecture guidelines. Review, validate, and approve technical changes, providing required technical guidance to team members. Ensure adherence to applicable agile processes within teams, such as Develop & Release, Govern Architecture, and Govern Quality. Proactively identify improvements to performance and eliminate technical debt in IT products and platforms. Support Operations teams in addressing critical operational issues. Responsible for technology management activities and supporting activities related to technical health checks, upgrades and maintenance of the technical elements of the IT products and/or platforms throughout their lifecycle. Maintain up-to-date technical documentation, including technical design specifications, and ensure overall quality of technical documentation. Promote DevOps ways of working within the product team and improve DevOps maturity capabilities and agile ways of working. Professional Requirements: Functional and architectural understanding of IT products, platforms and related technologies. Deep experience in Azure. Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD, release governance, and monitoring techniques. Familiarity with modern technologies, design and development tools, and automation techniques. Experience with Azure cloud networking. Lean and agile ways of working. Familiarity with IT product management practices. Communication and networking skills in a global environment. Entry-Level Requirements: Educational qualifications (e.g., BE, BTech, MCA). At least 7-8 years of experience in developing and/or supporting IT solutions and platforms, preferably in relevant technology areas. Demonstrated experience working in a global context. We offer At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual and where we share actively ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and a daily practice. We are proud to offer a range of opportunities that will support you in achieving your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life. We believe in improving performance through inspiring, engaging and developing our people. At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life. Read more on www.kone.com/careers Show more Show less