Director, Engineering

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Director -Engineering

As a Director Engineering at the India Development Centre, you will manage all technology related tasks and the day-to-day operations, staffing, and consistent creation of software to enable business needs. You will lead the Centre’s development staff to enhance existing systems and fulfil the business needs. You will maintain the appropriate quality of design, development, and documentation, and create a learning organization of developers. You are a leader who has expertise and judgment in working across multiple functional areas within an organization and have previous experience in successfully building, mentoring large software development teams.
Responsibilities

• Lead development efforts for Business Solutions products from India Software Development division.

• Provide leadership and direction for development and SDET teams to identify knowledge management, training, and execution for all technical implementations.

• Provide oversight for recruitment, engineering delivery, quality, and management.

• Drive implementation of new technologies/components, including active adoption of AI technologies, while championing re-use and extensibility of existing technology stack.

• Focus on consistent delivery of high-quality software and integration points that move the company towards achieving short and long-term objectives.

• Implement and continuously iterate on the company's Software Development and Security Development lifecycles, while promoting and enforcing best practices.

• Enable cross-geographical collaboration and creation of centers of excellence.

• Successfully manage stakeholders across multiple functions, including engineering, product, customer support and program management, across multiple geographies.

• Keep constant focus on customer satisfaction and be able to provide visibility and constant improvement on customer satisfaction metrics.

• Have an innovative, problem-solving mind-set

Qualifications –

• Degree in Computer Engineering or the equivalent, plus a minimum of 10 years leading a Software Development division. Masters a plus.

• 15+ years working in software development or application delivery, with former experience in a hands-on development role.

• Strong technical background in Cloud technologies, Java or C programming, system design, and end to end software development and delivery.

• Exposure to emerging AI technologies is a strong plus.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks, be detail oriented, responsible and show a high level of critical thinking.

• Excellent communication (verbal/written), organizational and interpersonal skills, including communicating successfully across multiple geographical locations and cultures.

• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment, navigate and manage change.

• Ability to delve into technical and design aspects and provide solutions and alternate approaches to software engineering problems.

• Experience interacting directly with customers, and excellent customer management skills.