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The Senior Director, Development Engineering is a leadership role responsible for ensuring the implementation of the function's strategic objectives across the team(s) within their remit. This role ensures that the business meets its strategic objectives by ensuring the research and development of new digital product/services and/or technologies and the improvement of existing digital products/services and/or technologies. This role ensures that the business is able to anticipate market demand, remain competitive in the marketplace, and plan for any development engineering activities to meet client needs.
This role is responsible for ensuring the development and implementation of policies, procedures and processes related to the development engineering function whilst fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on achieving operational excellence.
- Directs teams in achieving the overall strategy of the development engineering function.
- Drives accountability, consistency, quality, and process standardization across all phases of research and development.
- Ensures the execution of advanced analytical techniques to extend scientific theories in innovative research projects.
- Provides leadership, direction, and mentorship for development engineering function within and across region/geographies.
- Responsible for the development and monitoring of the development engineering budget.
- Develops policy and strategy in support of the organization's goals (short and long term).
- Provides support to, manages and coordinates and identifies the implementation of development engineering protocols or projects.
- Ensures compliance with relevant legislation as applicable.
- Provides advice and recommendations to business leaders based on research to influence strategic decisions.
- Translates the company's strategic objectives and vision into a successful development engineering product strategy.
- Provides feedback to stakeholders on the current and future path of development engineering roadmap.
- Develops and drives implementation of business plan and budget required to execute an annual and multi-year development and engineering plan.
- Develops and monitors metrics as required and convey metrics to ensure appropriate alignment and executive awareness.
- Ensures timely and consistent communication to stakeholders on risk management and change management associated with the technology and development portfolio.
- Actively promotes new ways of working that drive agility, speed, and design-thinking.
- Champions cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teaming.
- Implements, maintains and monitors standards, controls, processes, and solutions to minimize business and IT risk, ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements and standards.
- Accountable for driving continuous improvement within the Development Engineering function.
- Builds long-term, strategic relationships with executive stakeholders in a large client organization.
- Sets research goals by making effective proposals for the investment of funds in research and development projects.
- Makes recommendations based on research to influence strategic direction.
- Builds a shared sense of direction, clarify priorities and goals, and inspire others to achieve these.
- Works with others to translate strategic direction into operational goals and build a shared understanding of the link between these and core business outcomes.
- Significantly vast leadership capability with excellent communication skills.
- Customer-centric leader with excellent relationship management skills.
- Significantly vast knowledge of product management and service development life cycles.
- Significantly vast knowledge of relevant industry best practices.
- Excellent commercial acumen.
- Significantly vast understanding of market trends that influence the profitability of an organization, particularly related to products and services.
- Ability to think strategically and consideration of the bigger picture.
- Ability to inspire and motivate teams, recognizing team contributions and providing encouragement to achieve best performance.
- Demonstrates resilience in the face of setbacks and challenges, maintaining a positive attitude and inspiring the team to overcome obstacles.
- Ability to prioritize projects/programs effectively to achieve deadlines.
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in the face of change and uncertainty.
- Ability to lead by example in embracing new challenges and learning from experiences.
- Ability to facilitate presentation of technical and complex matters to Executive/Senior Leadership levels.
- Ability to evaluate risks, priorities and business benefits, leveraging strong business knowledge.
- Ability to keep current with trends, client insights, and competitive strategies.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Technical Management or Business Administration or related field.
- Relevant project management/agile certifications for example, PMP, CSM, PSPO, POPM) are advantageous.
- Significantly vast demonstrated experience building, managing and leading high performance software development, engineering and/or architecture teams.
- Significantly vast coaching, mentoring, and operational management experience.
- Significantly vast project/program management experience.
- Significantly vast demonstrated experience gained at Director level within a large complex organization, particularly a period of significant change within the organization.
- Significantly vast technical expertise and industry experience.
- Significantly vast demonstrated experience in dealing with relevant Senior Leadership level stakeholders.
- Substantial experience in building strong relationships and negotiating with key decision makers and influencers
- Substantial demonstrable track record of involvement in research and development of new products or product lines
- Substantial experience developing programs that address the research and development industry trends
- Substantial experience analyzing development needs of the development engineering team
- Substantial experience working with Scaled Agile approach and methodology
- Substantial demonstrated experience of developing and implementing relevant strategies in a multi supplier environment, managing third party services
- Substantial people management responsibilities and/or allocation of resources within a department or project environment
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Hybrid WorkingAbout NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune
Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through
responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with
unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and
application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move
confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more
than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as
established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each
year in R&D.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Technical Management, Business Administration, or a related field
- Extensive leadership experience building, managing, and leading software development, engineering, or architecture teams
- Extensive coaching, mentoring, and operational management experience
- Extensive project and program management experience
- Extensive Director-level experience within a large, complex organization
- Extensive technical expertise and relevant industry experience
- Extensive experience engaging senior leadership stakeholders
- Substantial experience building relationships and negotiating with key decision-makers and influencers
- Substantial experience in research and development of new products or product lines
- Substantial experience developing programs addressing research and development industry trends
- Substantial experience analyzing development needs for engineering teams
- Substantial experience with Scaled Agile methodologies
- Substantial experience developing and implementing strategies in multi-supplier environments and managing third-party services
- Substantial people management and resource allocation experience
- Relevant project management or Agile certifications such as PMP, CSM, PSPO, or POPM
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What We Do
NTT DATA, Inc. is a trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We're committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. Our R&D investments help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity
