Director Engineering

Director Engineering

We are looking for a hands on” leader for the product development team based in Hyderabad. As the Director of Product Development, you will lead, direct, manage, and participate in the day-to-day operations of a team of software developers, content developers, quality engineers and product. You will manage the operational aspects of the software development teams to ensure business and product\project objectives are met. You will be interfacing with support as needed to handle prioritize and handle any escalations. You will provide administrative, technical, and people leadership for multiple, diverse teams. You will be responsible for providing feedback to the team and individuals on their performance. You will coach and guide teams to enable future success.

Core responsibilities

• Lead the development team members to ensure delivered solutions adhere to the software architecture strategy, coding standards, and established organizational policies and procedures.
• Participating in software architectural discussions, influencing decisions, and collaborating with peers to maintain consistency across the organization.
• Drive continuous improvement to delivery capabilities
• Contribute to the overall product strategy, including architecture process definition and development
• Ensure a mature repeatable development process that delivers enterprise class products, on time, with the committed functionality
• Ensure engineering team is trained and skilled with the proper tools needed to deliver modern & high-quality enterprise software solutions
• Actively work to build & mentor highly motivated, enthusiastic & skilled software engineering team
• Manages personnel activities of staff (i.e. hires, trains, goal settings, appraises, rewards, motivates, disciplines, recommends termination as necessary).

The Skills You Bring

• At least 8-10 years of experience in leading software development teams or projects.
• Excellent knowledge of software development design and experience with agile development methodologies.
• Excellent organizational, leadership, decision making and communication skills.
• Good understanding of Incident Management, Configuration Management, Operational efficiency and Customer Management preferred.
• Responsible for supervision of software developments teams and processes.
• Coach and mentor software developer, develop staff skills, provide continuous feedback and responsible for annual reviews
• Lead and manage direct reports and set clear goals and objectives
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to attract and retain top talent

Technical experience

• Overall 18+ Years At Least 8 years of experience with Microsoft development platform for backend and web applications (.NET framework, .NET core, ASP.net) and Java.
• Knowledge and understanding of ERP software – SAP or Oracle E-Business
• Knowledge of networking, API’s, and ETL tooling and processes.
• Experience with building high volume, high performance, scalable enterprise applications
• Experience with cloud/hosted/ SaaS solutions