Director - Engineering Management (15-20 yrs)

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

- Define technology roadmap for various products of a business unit.

- Align choices to overall organization technology strategy.

- Work closely with teams to review architectural and technological choices for functional, cost, and time to deliver fitment.

- Optimize processes for productivity.

- Build teams, assess skill gaps, and plan upskilling exercises.

- Collaborate with operations teams to monitor and ensure SLA adherence to all services.

- Collaborate with directors and managers of QA, Project, UX, and other teams to staff each project appropriately.

- Mentor and manage engineering managers for effective delivery of projects.

- Percolate the benefits of the relevant technological choices to Product, Operations, Business, and Executive teams.

- Be responsible for shipping products at high quality promptly.

Requirements :

- Good understanding of distributed systems, micro-services, messaging systems, and associated architectural patterns.

- In-depth understanding of traditional relational databases and various key-value document stores.

- Thorough understanding of transactional and analytical workloads.

- Mastery in Object-oriented analysis and design.

- Good understanding of web and mobile application technology stack.

- Practitioners understand of Non-functional requirements of software and the ability to make appropriate trade-off decisions.

- Experience with CI/CD environments and automation test frameworks.

- Good understanding of agile development practices.

- Familiarity with production operations of large-scale systems.

Experience and Qualifications :

- Overall 15 to 18 years of experience of strong experience managing software projects right from inception to launch, seeing the full lifecycle, and building enterprise systems.

- B. Tech/M. Tech in computer science, information technology, or a related field.