Jai Kisan - Engineering Director - Distributed Systems (10-12 yrs)

Key Responsibilities :

- Build and lead multiple teams of 15-20 top-notch engineers to own, drive & deliver critical parts of our products.

- Mentoring and the ability to attract the best talent to enhance the productivity of all the application engineering teams.

- Work closely with Engineering Managers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.

- Set up the organizational processes, best practices and champion their adoption to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.

- Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Define engineering practices, product development patterns and drive product development to scale.

- Engage with the product team and CTO office team to drive the functionality, usability and other non-functional requirements and hence the solution for the same.

- Ensure on-time launches by managing design, development, and integration efforts according to a standard or customized project plan.

- Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence.

- Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement.

- Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long-term vision.

- Be responsible for mentoring and developing front-line managers and engineers.

Requirements :

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field from Premium Institutes.

- 10+ years of work experience in software development and 5+ years in a leadership role in Lending or BFSI Industry.

- Deep Understanding of enterprise-grade technologies.

- Experience in building and running distribution systems for 24x7 online services on a scale.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.

- Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.

- Strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

- Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask