Senior Director Engineering

Roles & Responsibility

• Provide technical leadership to deliver software solutions that exceed customer expectations for entire software engineering teams. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader.
• Manage software engineering teams that builds, designs, implements, and maintains products and related services.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions involving multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, customer, and other stakeholders.
• Lead a culture of innovation & experimentation, support full product development lifecycle incorporating the best of technology and delivery methodologies.
• In-charge of team building, stimulate hiring, training, performance reviews and career plans for software engineering team.
• Manage the software development team, measure, and improve team engagement, engineering excellence, productivity and team velocity.
• Coach and develop individual contributors and managers, foster a high-performing engineering culture.
• Direct and manage software engineering resource allocation, schedules and budget ensuring on time product releases enabling the core vision of next generation systems compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Own the product quality, scalability, security, and performance of applications, systems, and integrations.
• Instill a mindset of curiosity and challenging status quo with a goal to drive faster speed to market at a lower cost.
• Own the product quality, scalability, security, and performance of applications, systems, and integrations
• Instill a mindset of curiosity and challenging status quo with a goal to drive faster speed to market at a lower cost.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to enable business value creation, as well as the stability & scalability of our solutions
• Supervise technology trends like emerging standards for fresh technology opportunities. Write white papers, participate in internal/external forums.
• Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
• Develop and review all technical sales material & prepare technical task as well as time estimates for software engineering bids and proposals.

Experience & Skill

• Should have 18+ years of experience of working in product development organizations with a proven experience of developing enterprise scale products in a highly agile/scrum environment.
• Strong knowledge of Java based technical stack, databases, AWS/Azure cloud, SaaS, design and architectural patterns and frameworks.
• Strong Java / JEE coding background, and willing to design & code. Technically hands-on.
• Very good knowledge of software development tools, patterns, and processes (Agile principles, SCRUM, SAFe, V-model)
• Collaborate with architects, product management, and engineering teams to create solutions that increase the platform's value.
• Create technical specifications, prototypes, and presentations to communicate your ideas.
• Well-versed in emerging industry technologies and trends and the ability to communicate that knowledge to the team and influence product direction.
• Own progress of the product through the development life cycle, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring visibility to senior leadership.
• Partner with product management to define and refine our product road map, user experience, priorities, and schedule.
• Extensive experience in designing applications to work with data and processing data at scale.
• Excellent Critical thinking, Analytical, problem solving & Solutioning skills with a customer first mindset.

Great to have

• Experience with compute cluster, container, orchestration, and Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka.
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Python, Scala.

Professional

• Prior experience of working as a Engineering Director is mandatory.
• Ability to lead by example and inspires the team to perform at a very high level, collaborates very well across different teams.
• Highly motivated and has the ability to convert vague and ill-defined problems into well-defined problems, take initiative and encourage consensus building in the team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrable project management, stakeholder management and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to lead in a matrix environment.
• Strong interpersonal and talent management skills, including the ability to identify and develop product management talent.