Position: Director- Software Development

Primary Purpose: Be a strategic executional leader for the software development division who shall be a key differentiator in enabling the growth aspirations of the organization by bringing in the technological advantage for organizations business as well as be a lead product development specialist ensuring organization sustains and progresses its technological advantage position with in the US healthcare domain.

Key Job outcomes:

Software Development:

- Ensure progressive development of software products and web applications.

- Effectively construct and implement business product strategy and be a lead in building scalable, secured, enterprise application products.

- Effectively create new strategic direction/s for the company with products designed specifically for long-term.

- Effectively lead all technology initiatives of the company, manage entire technology platform including the strategic planning, development, and implementation - Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies and software development best practices

- Ensure QA and Performance engineering responsibilities include certifying new features for releases, define testing & automation strategies, design & develop automation frameworks, implement automated regression suites, setup continuous integration process.

- Define and champion leading software technologies to improve the efficiency, quality, and ease of use of our products and SaaS solutions

- Identify both strategic opportunities and potential threats associated with emerging technologies, and execute software development plans.

- Effectively assist in critical support issues where your experience is required to ascertain the issue quickly and to find the more appropriate resolution.

- To make sure the development team is integrating other team's services efficiently and that they are offering technical input into how all Advantmed services can be delivered and improved.

- Release Engineering responsibilities include managing build & continuous integration process/environments, verifying release criteria for the release candidate builds, delivering the release patch etc.

- Effectively contribute towards reduction of software development life-cycle.

- Demonstrable technical leadership to deliver on-time/on-budget software by accurately estimating software budget and scheduling for various software development stages and releases

- Collaborate with other team members to provides direction for the entire project or a project teams

- Effectively work with technical staff and team leadership to understand problems and come up with the best approach to resolve them.

- Collaborate with product management leadership and oversee product development.

- Manages/leads team to apply and introduce industry advance best engineering practices

- Manage work closely with team leadership, architect and technical staff to understand problems with software and support team for resolving them

- Lead the team for greater solution and responds to suggestions for improvements on the new product

- Effectively apply fundamental skills, concepts and practices to solve difficult assignments.

- Understands capabilities and complexity of environment and manages its scalability/high availability/performance requirements.

- Effectively understand complex business requirements very quickly and architect solutions while paying attention to detail - Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization

- Coach and help develop team members.

- Assure that the team members have the necessary education and training to effectively participate on the team

- Prepare and update Training material, Quick reference sheet, News Letters.

- Strong in executing initiatives toward increasing productivity, system performance, standardization, best practices and maximizing product quality

Work Relations:

Internal:

- Reporting to Vice president - IT/Software and Compliance for all functional as well as admin issues.

- Interfacing with Leadership, Top Management across global offices.

- Interface with Product management team based out of US.

- Interfacing Account management and business development teams based out of US.

- Interfacing with QA, tech-pub, build, localization, performance testing & support team

External:

- Interface with clients and technology vendors.

Qualification:

- B.Tech/ M.Tech (Computer Science) from accredited university.

Expected Competencies:

- Pioneering, Affability, Persuasiveness, Friendliness, Positivity, Rapport, Communication, Activity, Restlessness, Alertness, Urgency, Ebullience, Animation, Flexibility, Persistence, Independence, Strong Will, Adventurousness, Boldness, Courage, Venturesome

- Tangible, measurable results must be obtained despite opposition or resistance to their accomplishment. There is pressure to meet deadlines in an environment laced with a wide variety of problems and unexpected interruptions. Must be comfortable in a matrix structure and have a high commitment to collaborate with all parts of the organization

- The Job Profile indicates that the job requirement is for a person who is inspirational, highly persuasive and has the drive to achieve. The job is likely to require that tangible, measurable results are to be obtained despite opposition or resistance to their accomplishment. There will be pressure to meet deadlines in an environment laced with a wide variety of problems and unexpected interruptions. Communication and people skills are also important aspects of the job. The person fulfilling this role should be self-starting, competitive, imaginative, direct, influential, persuasive and self-confident. Independence, mobility, activity, pace and authority are also factors which could be important to this position.

Experience: 15-16 Yrs., primarily in global IT space. Preferably from a product company. Minimum 3-5 experience years in managing teams of software developers, Business analysts and QA professionals.

Desired Key Expertise for the job:

- Exposure of US healthcare domain is desirable.

- Exceptional, demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft Office.

- Expert in Agile methods including SCRUM and TDD.

- Advanced level (knowledge and experience) of Microsoft technologies and Project management methodologies

- Experience in application architecture and making rational buy vs. build and interface decisions.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work equally well in self-managed and team based Agile/Scrum projects.

- Demonstrable ability to manage a range of projects types and complex business initiatives and change programs.

- Demonstrable ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.

- Proven strong negotiating and consensus building abilities.

- Proven skills to work effectively across internal functional areas in ambiguous situations.

- Highly self- motivated, self- directed, and attentive to detail.

- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high- pressure environment.

No. of vacancies: One

Working Hours: 5 days week (Flexibility to stretch and work in a 24X 7 environment is a MUST)

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