Director - Engineering - IT Software Development

The Purpose of This Role :

- This is a senior position in our organization and requires strong execution, communication, and analytical abilities.

- This role works closely with multiple stakeholders globally and locally - Customer's business, Engineering, Architecture and Operations Teams

- Drive high standards on quality, delivering solutions on time and within budgeted cost.

- Candidate in recent times has been hands-on in Java Enterprise technologies on both user interface and middleware frameworks.

Value You Will Deliver :

- Build and sustain a product engineering team

- Work with cross locational team to build functional and high performance products in Agile Scrum.

- Be responsible for guiding and leading product discovery, backlog grooming, execution, monitoring, and assigned features/ project(s) to keep on schedule and on budget.

- Responsible for ramping up the quality engineering team.

- Monitor projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution process, and taking corrective action as necessary

- Responsible for guiding the team to build and test the code for predictable quality and perform proactive activities to keep the services up and running in pre- production and production environments.

Our Ideal Candidate comes with :

- Overall experience not exceeding 20+ years building large systems, key program delivery across multiple geographically disburse teams.

- Experience includes at least 5 years' in full lifecycle product engineering services (Core Banking/Transaction Banking/Payments/Healthcare Experience preferred)

Functional Competency :

- IT Software Development, Digital Solutions, Digital Transformation background are mandatory.

- Sound understanding of technology & of software development methodologies especially as relating to developing custom software for customers

- A proven and consistent track record of meeting revenue targets.

Technical Competency :

- Possess and Apply knowledge of multiple UI and Java Enterprise frameworks

- Owns and is accountable for the design and development of a product or major product sub-system

- Analyze project risks, issues, costs, and benefits and make relevant recommendations to business and IT leadership.

- Provide and implement action plans to mitigate risk when applicable

- Foster good lateral relationships

- Motivates and mentors the team

Behavioral Competency :

- Strong interpersonal communication skills

- Ability to lead initiatives and people toward common goals.

- Working knowledge of Systems Infrastructure

- Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills