Position Title:  Development Manager

Location:          Bangalore

Exp:                 5+ years

Position Summary:

Directs the activity of team leaders within a group or a specific area within the engineering function. Manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. Defines objectives and work plans and determines modes of employing resources in order to attain objectives and meet schedules. Serves as a professional authority for subordinate employees with regard to problem-solving and schedule-meeting schedules.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyzes and investigates applications engineering tasks, and prepares design specifications, analysis and recommendations. Manager of a medium-size group/project.
• Provides innovative solutions to complex problems and communicates progress toward project/program goals.
• Oversees the delivery of products within budget, schedule and quality guidelines.
• Creates schedules and work plans. Can reach appropriate resolution in many varied situations.
• Develops and provides challenging yet appropriate assignments, evaluates work, communicates progress toward career development and goals.
• Champion global team collaboration at peer level to ensure local team is engaged on business priority deliverables, make responsible commitment and consolidate their feedback on team performance.
• Interfaces with senior management to report on project and program milestones and to present project progress report

• Guide and mentor team members to deliver high quality design and code
• Lookout for latest server focused technology trends and standards

• Responsible for career development/planning, performance discussions of team members.

Exp and Skills Required:

• Overall 5+ years of experience in Product development in building multi-tier cloud applications/platform using Java/J2EE, Oracle and OO technologies
• Hands-on experience on using Java and related open source technologies for building enterprise class web applications
• Must be adept at experimenting with new technologies, start-up setup, quick prototyping and ability to define overall approach to drive project delivery
• Strong experience in dealing with performance, scalability, distributed caching, Web Services and open source technologies
• Experience with SaaS applications design, development, deployment and support in private/public cloud environment
• Working experience in an offshore product setup with distributed teams will be an added advantage
• Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem-solving skills
• 4+ years of experience in Project and people management using Agile/SCRUM methodologies
• Be process-compliant in performing assigned tasks and ensuring quality of project deliverables. Drive new process ideas in his/her work area
• Help build team and induction of new members.  Own performance appraisal responsibilities for the team members under the guidance of supervisor/ People Success Team
• Ability to identify and successfully groom new leaders in technical area for handling higher level of responsibilities.

Education:

• BE or higher in computer science, engineering or relevant field