Point of Sale - POS Technical Manager

Role: POS Manager

City: Bangalore, India

Company: Groupsoft US

Employment Type: Full-time / Regular

Technology Domain: SAP Consulting Industry: Retail/ Fashion

Company Description

Groupsoft is one of the world’s leading Solutions Provider and Systems Integrator for Retail and Fashion enterprises, where bold innovative thinking, inspired people, and passion for results come together for an exceptional impact. We simplify, strengthen, and transform your Retail, Wholesale, and Fashion business.

Groupsoft is headquartered out of Princeton, NJ in the US and has its offices in Toronto and Bangalore. Groupsoft has since its foundation in the year 2003 stayed focused on Business Solution implementations and IT consulting services for the Retail, Wholesale, and Fashion industries. Through years of Business Solution implementation and consulting experience for the Retail, Wholesale, and Fashion industries, strategic partnerships, and passionate commitment to client satisfaction, we have created a one-stop-shop for any enterprise interested in elevating their operations to the cutting-edge of retail technology. Groupsoft’s client base spreads beyond 90 plus satisfied customers with geographic coverage of 30 plus countries.

At Groupsoft we uphold our company’s culture and nurture our set of core values – Integrity, Respect for All, Collaboration, Creativity, Enablement, Inclusiveness, and Empathy.

Job Description

The Point-of-Sale Development Manager will provide technical leadership, oversight, and planning for new features and functionality for the Retail environment. The POS Functionality Manager requires deep software design and development skills along with sound project management capabilities, taking a lead role in working with the business users, project managers, and others within the organization to ensure all aspects of projects are completed properly based on business requirements. This role consists of hands-on technical tasks as well as customer interaction and project leading activities.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements as well as functional and architectural design documents to determine the coding needed from generalized business and functional requirements
• Develop technical design specifications for application enhancements, including flowcharts, diagrams, DDL, and/or write pseudo code to illustrate sequence of steps and describe logical operations
• Mentor, coach, lead and provide technical direction to team members to meet project goals
• Perform research and development for Proof of Concept/Proof of Technology ideas. For those that prove out, hand off to other developers and then lead the effort to provide a production-ready solution.
• Plan and coordinate product release roadmap that balances the priorities of new functionality and bug fixes
• Conduct code reviews and testing. Track defects from reviews and testing.
• Participate and take lead role in project team meetings and test plan walkthroughs
• Proactively provide regular, clear, and consistent communication (written and oral) on the status of projects, issues, and deliverables to our customers and/or vendors
• Have accountability for client relationship with internal business customers, peers, and management team
• Work with technical support to facilitate analysis of, and resolution to, technical issues
• Identify and evaluate business processes that can be automated, eliminated, and/or made more efficient

Qualifications

• A Bachelor/Masters degree in a related field required, unless there is significant, relevant work experience
• Proficient Java  experience
• 10+ years’ experience with a high level of proficiency in advanced Point-of-Sale web design and development, with an emphasis in JAVA, Spring, Springboot, JAVA Swing, PostgresSQL, Jasper, Canoo are a plus
• 10-15 years’ experience with a high level of proficiency in relational database design
• 5+ yrs. experience building and leading teams responsible for developing enterprise level software
• Experience with POS, SAP Customer Checkout, Aptos desirable
• Ability to interact at a technical and non-technical level with Management, Development, BA, QA, Architecture and Infrastructure teams
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), including facilitation and team leadership skills
• Must be a self-starter, self-motivated and capable of working independently as well as part of a team
• Strong experience in large scale environments with 000’s of endpoints and very large transaction intensive database systems
• Strong background in full lifecycle development (Waterfall and Agile)
• Strong organizational and time management skills to be able to handle multiple projects and tasks
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio or similar
• Experience with Help Desk/Support (i.e. Service Now, ITIL)
• Experience with project manager tool 
• Prior experience in Retail environments is a plus