Senior Manager, Product Development

BetaNXT

The Company

BetaNXT is the next wave in wealth management technology and outsourcing solutions. We focused on solving our customers most demanding integration challenges with flexible, efficient, connected solutions. Our products reduce enterprise cost, streamline operation processes, increase advisor productivity, and enhances the investor experience. Together with BetaNXT, wealth management firms are transforming their platforms into differentiating assets that enable scale and commercial growth.

But we're not just invested in our customers; we're also invested in people. We know that our overall success is a combined effort, and we therefore strive to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow and thrive.

The Opportunity

BETA is a self-clearing securities processing solution for wealth management firms. Built on years of expert knowledge and hands-on experience, BETA provides critical back-office controls including corporate action management, middle office exception management, and front office account management and trading tools for advisors.

We are currently seeking an experienced and technology-oriented leader to take on the role of Manager, Product Development. This is a leadership position in the BETA Product Engineering team that will be responsible to drive innovation and deliver our highest priority strategic initiatives within the organization. This individual will lead a program and team that will support the delivery related to our modernization applications.

About the Team

Reporting to the Associate Director of Bangalore BETA product engineering, this role leads a team of software development professionals working to develop and maintain applications that are part of our core platform. This role requires working closely with product management to design to define requirements and leading the development team from concept through delivery and subsequent operation. This position involves regular communication with senior management on technical development, product strategy, status, and risks.

The office is located in Divyashree Technopolis, Yemaluru, Bangalore, India.

What Youll Do

The ideal candidate has experience through multiple complete consumer product or service development cycles, possesses superior analytical abilities and product judgment. Key to success in this position is an equal passion for delivering new features as well as operating the current applications at the highest level of quality, ensuring that our customers have a world-class experience.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Accountable for the successful execution of technology project by following a Systems Development Lifecycle
• Collaborate with and across teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
• Ensure continued functionality of a program during maintenance and testing of software
• Revisit the development process to fix bugs or address client or consumer concerns
• Ensure the team documents each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully lead teams to deliver quality results on schedule
• Assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action
• Creates trust and credibility with stakeholders/user community and works with them to identify issues and risks that may impact them.
• Creates an environment and workflow that ensures proactive identification of change to prevent problems, including problem resolution workflow.
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community
• Fosters a culture of continual improvement

Your Experience

• 12+ years of total experience in IT industry
• 4+ years of professional and recent experience leading development teams; preferably in the financial services industry
• Four-year Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience required
• Direct management of cross functional, sourced, or matrixed teams; experience with and significant knowledge of IT outsourcing activities in a managed services environment
• Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives
• Proven experience in IT development across waterfall and agile environments.
• Comfortable communicating at all levels internally and externally in an organization
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving and agile technology environment
• Knowledge of tools such as Atlassian Jira
• Experience of managing teams working on technologies such as Mainframes, IIB, ACE, Angular. Should be able to manage teams across different technologies.
• Ability to translate short and long-range strategic plans from product roadmaps into design and implementation of current and future applications and systems
• Strong financial acumen and understanding of IT Total Cost of Ownership
• Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls and monitoring processes

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. Therefore we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world−regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law.