Role : Sr Project Director, product development

location: Remote

Overview

The Senior Project Director, Product Development has overall responsibility for architecture, technical roadmap, planning and delivery of one or more services with their own release / deployment life cycle. This includes all aspects of product development, including oversight of hiring, retention, architecture, code reviews, engineering quality gates including test automation & performance, design best practices, deployment, ensuring right monitoring and alerting in SaaS production, incident response, break/fix support etc. Manages agile development process including status reporting. The role requires strong collaboration with product management team, other services development teams, particularly in conceiving and delivering innovative synergies across the rich portfolio of Blue Yonder products. Collaborates with pre-sales, sales, services, sometimes working directly with key customers as trusted technical advisory from Engineering.

Job Description

• Develops, maintains, and implements several projects across multiple teams.
• Demonstrates expertise in applicable technologies, products, and tools.
• Identifies opportunities to introduce machine learning / artificial intelligence capabilities within the services that are created, and evangelizes the value proposition to the client / product management teams and drives to create workstreams for POCs leading to solutions that are adopted by clients (ground up innovation in leveraging ML / AI).
• Applies domain concepts into the solution and product area.
• Demonstrates command over the product and its architecture to design services that have a distinct set of Wow features to create differentiated offering.
• Identifies platforms and technologies to be used in the product.
• Understands Blue Yonder's platform technologies, and leverages them as needed within the product to ensure a consistent consumption experience across Blue Yonder's services.
• Compliant with CSO directives on security within the product architecture and production deployment
• Architects the services that are HA, resilient, reliable, horizontally scalable, ultra-low latency, extensible and well documented for target audience to easily consume.
• Ensures that the services are architected to achieve the SaaS margins that are targeted by keeping the runtime costs and the operate / support costs minimal.
• Ensures the solution is strongly differentiated and immediately makes a market impact upon launch.
• Manages technical issues, coding, and configuration to ensure delivery of module and project.
• Project manages including release planning, delivery, monitoring progress and reporting.
• Formulates tactical plans for development and ensures timely execution of projects.
• Facilitates cross-team communication on reporting progress and resolving impediments.

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