Experience : The jobholder will be a CA or equivalent with 5 - 10 years experience in handling international taxation with a tax consulting firm or a multinational company, with hands-on experience in tax planning and assessment procedures. The job requires extraordinary drive, initiative, creativity and commitment on part of the jobholder to develop the Taxation Function as a major value addition function at the corporate level. Jobholder will be a result-oriented achiever, who is very good in planning, organising and managing the function to meet the targets and thus fulfil the purpose of the job. The jobholder will also have very good leadership, communication, social and interpersonal skills.
Qualification: CA or equivalent
Key Skills: Taxation
Job description:

• Structuring of transactions and business presence of IBS Group for optimizing tax payments.
• Continuous evaluation of the global corporate tax policies and advice the management on the tax implication of various corporate decisions.
• Ensure adequate and effective process controls for payment of tax and timely filing of returns and documents with the revenue/tax department.
• Represent the Company in corporate tax matters before the tax authorities and manage the assessment proceedings thereto.
• Monitor and review areas with potential tax exposure including fringe benefits and investment portfolio.
• Implement systems for improving compliance levels with international corporate tax requirements.

Job Location: Trivandrum
Reporting Structure: Reporting to Senior Manager – Company Secretary & GM - Company Affairs

Role/Designation : Practice Manger/ Practice Lead - Testing
Experience :
• 7 – 10 years experience in testing
• Experience in presales activities in Testing
• Handle customer calls, presentations highlighting the competence of the company
• Knowledge of test methodologies
• Experience in Testing using manual methods and tools
• P&L knowledge will be a plus
• Software Testing Certification plus
Qualification: BE / BTech / MCA
Key Skills: Presales activities in testing practice
Knowledge of Test Methodologies
Job description:

• To create a testing practice
• Presales activities – Proposals, customer presentations
• Plan and build test team
• Accurate estimation of testing proposals
  

Job Location: Trivandrum, Kochi or Bangalore
Reporting Structure: Reporting to Senior Manager – Technology Practices

Role/Designation : Project Leader/ Test Manager
Experience : Minimum 6 years in Software Industry with experience in Testing
Qualification: BE/MCA
Key Skills:
• Test Management, Test Planning, Creating Test cases, Testing, Test Automation
• Extensive hands on knowledge on HP Mercury suite of products like Winrunner, QTP, Loadruner etc.
Job requirements: Based in Trivandrum
Job description:
• Responsible for helping Independent Verification Service business get new projects
• Recruiting and training the right team
• Interacting with Sales Teams and customers
• Estimation and planning
• Developing project plans, organizing resources and implementing based on project requirements
• Willing to travel and work onsite

Job Location: Trivandrum
Reporting Structure: Senior Manager-Technology Practices

Role/Designation : Implementation Architect
Experience : • Minimum 4 years experience in J2EE project development
• 2 - 4 years experience in Websphere / Weblogic cluster administration
• Exposure to Hibernate or TopLink
• 1 - 2 years as Technical Lead with involvement in Architecture and Design activities
• 1 - 2 years in onsite technical activities
• Optional / good to have skills
• Middleware such as IBM MQ
• Experience in Struts, Spring and other web frameworks
• Exposure to Unix (AIX, Linux, Solaris)
Qualification: BE / BTech / MCA
Key Skills: Java/J2EE, Websphere, Weblogic
Job description:
• Research, select, prototype, implement, evaluate progress of architecture/design solutions.
• Architect, design and implement software and systems solutions
• Provide technical solutions to product deployment.
• Ensure technical / design quality of the product / project.
• Define valid product designs that meet client and corporate requirements and specifications
• Work with team leads, project leaders and project managers to determine system objectives, constraints and solve design problems.
• Be Responsible for the analysis, design and vision of the platform to ensure it is adhering to overall end-to-end product development.
• Resolve design/technology issues.
Job Location: Trivandrum, Kochi or Bangalore

Purpose of the Job: To lead the architecture and technical efforts for a very large, high transaction oriented E-Commerce (B2B/B2C) product from conceptual stage to the final roll out to customers
To Design and deliver most cost effective (based on TCO), robust, system architecture, which would meet the business requirements, product strategy and technical strategy.
Core Skills : 1. Experience in leading the architecture effort for E-Commerce, E-Business portal solutions for B2B, B2C using J2EE technologies
2. Experience in integrating and developing contents using one or more of the CMS solutions
3. Experience in architecting/designing high performance J2EE solutions
4. Life cycle experience from product conceptual stage to final implementation to customers
5. Ability to take architecture and design decisions based on TCO analysis
6. Ability to take architecture and design decisions based on business opportunities
7. Excellent exposure to the open source solutions (JBOSS, mySQL, etc)
8. Experience in handling one or more integration projects. Ability to decide the integration based on various technology and business considerations
9. Experience in doing the capacity planning and sizing exercises
10. Excellent exposure to non functional solutions like performance, scalability, availability and reliability.
11. Experience in designing solutions with high usability considerations to wide range of customers across geographic regions including internationalization, localization and accessibility solutions
12. Knowledge in legal and regulatory laws to be compliant in various part of world like SOX and Security
13. Experience in leading the deployment effort of large products/projects to the final customers
14. Exposure to RDBMS solutions (like Oracle, mySQL) and performance optimizations
15. Experience in hardware/network and operating system optimizations for better application performance as well as good understanding of different hardware/network solutions for application deployment
16. Experience in defining the technical roadmap
Job Accountabilities: 1. Research, select, prototype, implement, evaluate progress of architecture/design solutions.
2. Architect, design and implement software and systems solutions
3. Provide technical solutions to product deployment.
4. Ensure technical / design quality of the product / project.
5. Define valid product designs that meet client and corporate requirements and specifications
6. Work with team leads, project leaders and project managers to determine system objectives, constraints and solve design problems.
7. Be Responsible for the analysis, design and vision of the platform to ensure it is adhering to overall end-to-end product development.
8. Resolve design/technology issues.
9. Ensure that the architecture / design cater to the non functional requirements specified.
10. Conduct research to identify new technologies to be adopted to keep the product updated.
11. Identify new methodologies for making development more cost effective.
12. Assist the project teams and technology consultants in conducting regular design and code reviews.
13. Monitor development progress, course correction and enforce development methodologies for all projects in IBS.
14. Gain knowledge of overall design architecture currently used in IBS.
15. Communicate complex technical issues to the concerned persons, which are common to projects.
16. Document software designs.
17. Provide technical leadership on a variety of projects
18. Ensure proper knowledge transfer related to new technologies to consultants, other system architects and project teams.
19. Support resourcing team by participating in interviews and mentoring junior team members in interviewing skills.
Jobholder Profile:
The jobholder would be eligible to be placed as a Lead Architect provided he/he is a university graduate in engineering, with an experience level of 8-12 years in IT, of which 6-8 years on designing software architecture.

The jobholder would be eligible to be placed as an Architect provided he/he is a university graduate in engineering, with an experience level of 5-8 years in IT, of which 3-4 years on designing software architecture.

The jobholder is expected to acquire drive, initiative, creativity and commitment to develop and activities of the organisation. The jobholder must also acquire skills to communicate well with the projects and departments of the organisation.

Role/Designation : Technical Architect-Dot Net
Experience : • Over 7 years experience
• Should have a substantial knowledge and experience in .Net technologies
• Able to provide architectural solutions for systems with high performance and scalability requirements.
• Preferably having experience in ESB implementations and J2EE knowledge.
Qualification: BE / BTech / MCA
Job description:
• Ownership of architecture of the solution.
• Setting up environment for validating non functional requirements.
• Technical leadership and mentoring of developers.
• Responsible for setting up standards and guidelines for architecture, design and code.
Job Location: Trivandrum

• Software Engineers: Java, EJB, Weblogic/Websphere, Rational Rose
• Experience: 4 to 8 years
• Responsibilities: OOAD, Design Review, Performance Analysis. Should have led a design team
• Added advantage: Experience in Architecture Analysis
• Qualification: BE/BTech or MCA.

• Experience- Minimum 6 years in Oracle Database with preferably 1 year experience in Oracle 10G
• Experience in Database Administration, Back-up & Recovery
• Expert Knowledge in Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)
• Database Tuning
• Application tuning (SQL, PL/SQL tuning)
• Databases Design & Review
• ER Modeling & Review.

Role/Designation : Senior Business Analyst/ Consultant
Experience : The jobholder must be a university graduate in engineering, with a postgraduate degree in management. He/she should possess good communication and interpersonal skills. He/she should be able to analyse business situations objectively and logically and must have the ability to comprehend business requirements. He should have the ability to respond and support the requests from sales regions. An experience of 4 - 5 years in any industry is essential. Sales and marketing experience is preferable.
The ideal person could be a BA working in the BSG with 4 - 5 years of airlines domain expertise who has the sales flare.
Qualification: BE / BTech and PG in Management
Job description
Sales Support:
Support the sales region in achieving the sales targets by
1. Undertaking market research in the domain and identify market scope and competitor information with a sales perspective.
2. Conducting workshops, user conferences and present the products and business solutions to the clients and prospects.
3. Creating product collaterals and support sales teams on the regions in bid management activities if required.
4. Undertaking marketing and product promotion activities like prospecting, mailer campaigns, ad campaigns etc.
5. Conducting training and workshops to ensure the transfer of product know – how to the sales force.
Product Management:
6. Support the Business Systems Manager in Product management
7. Identify, document and maintain core and augmented features for the proposed products from the clients, markets, competitors, and consultants.
8. Support the product manager in identifying product scope, roadmap and base lining every release / version of the product
9. Creating business cases and acceptance criteria for the product versions/releases
P & L management:
10. Manage the LoB P & L by monitoring the budgets with respect to the expenses and revenue forecast with respect the actual revenue.
11. Support the Business Systems Manager in identifying the corrective actions for the revenue/expense gap.
12. Update iWise and LoB specific files with the BO / budget / Invoice / revenue information.
Post Sales Support and Other roles:
13. Analyse the operational procedures and processes within the client institution and also investigate work practices in related units / agencies.
14. Conduct the product Gap Analysis – Identify the functional and technical gaps of the product with respect to the client requirements
15. Analyses user requirements and help development teams in generating system requirements.
16. Support implementation and training at the client site and capture product improvement inputs.
Job Location: Trivandrum

• Job Requirements:

Product Planning Support and Business Consulting including Test Case development, Estimation, User Documentation and Acceptance Testing. Implementation Support and Gap Analysis. Sales Support, Bid Management and Training the end user.

Desired profile of the candidate:
Young, brilliant B.Tech+MBAs from top business schools, with excellent academics and 1-3 years’ experience in marketing or business analysis. Must possess excellent communication skills, training skills and an ability to work in teams.