Director - Engineering - BFSI

Looking for Engineering Director position for Chennai Location for a Banking and Financial Domain firm..

Please find the JD below:

Job Title: Engineering Director

Reports To: Manufacturing Head

Organization Unit: Global Consumer Banking

Job Purpose:

1. Provide leadership to the Core product development across engineering disciplines within the companies Core Banking Product Suite in alignment with the business priorities and with clear insights into our customer perspectives

2. Create, nurture and develop highly skilled associates, first through leading by example, supplemented by, formal and informal capability development initiatives; Manage the career aspirations of key talent while keeping a check on key associate risks

3. Leading the transformation of how we work in collaboration with other leaders within the business unit and organization unit to enhance the engineering capability and responsiveness to achieve reliable execution

4. Champion the best practices in terms of agile development, on-time and in-full release delivery and automation of devops to optimize the quality and predictability of deliverables

Principal Accountabilities:

1. IP Capital Management - Direct Ownership

Distinguished design anchor who passionately owns the construction of the product, feature by feature to create a differentiated world class product

Clears the product back logs with pride - defects, changes, enhancements

Complies with the delivery effectiveness tenets to run a tight and disciplined engineering work culture

Focus on standards, automation, continuous integration and aligning with industry best practices

2. Human Capital Management - Direct Ownership

Objective grooming of excellent talent through performance oriented recognition

Retention & recognition of right talents, key associate risks mitigation

Day to day engagement to drive excellent E-SAT

3. Customer Capital Management - Indirect Ownership

Quality of Deliverable & timeliness to drive excellent C-SAT

Possible involvement in pre-sales context in terms of demo / POC of new features

Key Traits:

1. Foster best practices aligned to design thinking, agile development and reliable execution

2. Demonstrate the willingness to take measured risks, aggressive timelines and take the team along

3. Innovate for better, faster, cheaper solutions for the markets we operate in

4. Ability to understand, assimilate, articulate and influence senior executives / large cross functional leaders

5. Attention to detail and self motivation to set and drive an agenda

Relevant Experience:

1. Proven hands-on experience managing complex, mission-critical solutions involving current technology stacks (14+ years of relevant experience)

2. Sound knowledge on product design, product development, release management, change control, solution architecture, performance tuning and deployment architecture, software testing

3. Good grasp of various technologies and its usage, JEE, Oracle, HTML5 in particular - mobility, analytics & cloud understanding would be desirable

4. Root cause analysis of product issues, defect pattern / anti-pattern identification

5. Exposure to SCRUM / Kanban / SCRUM-ban highly desirable

Chandra Sekhar