Director/Lead - Engineering & UK Global Capability Centre - IIT/NIT/BITS

Position: Director Engineering and UK Global Capability Centre Lead (Leading MNC IT Captive)

Role:

- Manage the overall team of 200 associates across locations working for UK region at the Global Capability Centre

- Partner with UK teams to build products and features aligned to the product roadmap using agreed technologies and tooling working closely with GCC based Global Technology Leaders /Global solutions Managers, Tech Leads, Software Architects, and DevOps Engineers

- Exploring emerging technologies, delivering pilots and POCs that leverage these technologies to solve existing business problems, identify new business opportunities

- Provide leadership to the team, ensuring team has a clear understanding of the design of new products or feature enhancements/changes to existing product

- Own responsibility of managing resources and capabilities of your teams; ensuring adequate levels of resources available to meet commitments.

- Ensure knowledge sharing and relevant upskilling is in place for your team where required

- Manage and grow high value technology teams that will deliver products and solutions that will drive increased or new revenue for the firm and create a culture of innovation

- Participate in quality assurance to ensure products are fit for purpose, meet regulation, and are performant.

- Possess a demonstrated ability to assess, develop, and retain talent, as well as draw additional talent to build the capacity of the team

- Build new capabilities at the Indian Global Capability Centre for UK region

- Management and executive reporting for the entire UK GCC team highlighting risks across teams and working with UK leadership team on a mitigation plan

- Recommend and implement integrated solutions across UK business units like Technology, Operations

- Manage India based vendors working for UK region and drive optimal cost

Requirements:

- Academic Qualification : Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Tier 1 Institutes in India

- 15+ years of commercial software engineering and leadership experience including experience in building complex programs and platforms

- Strong leadership experience, leading multiple teams, providing management and operational oversight, and making strategic decisions in a time-bound environment

- Strong bias towards delivering excellent customer experiences and the ability to lead teams to understand and empathize with customer needs across product, platform and services

- Leading the delivery of complex systems and distributed, service-based systems.

- Leadership and line management experience including managing the technical deliverables of others, managing appraisals and performance, and managing team capacity and absence.

- Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to prioritize and allocate work within team to support product releases.

- Excellent communication and English language skills, with the ability to collaborate with teams

- Leadership skills and demonstrated ability to work with non-technical business stakeholders and align on priorities and requirements.

- Strong sense of ownership of team commitments, deliverables and quality

- A passion for software engineering, high standards and the delivery of testable quality code

- Current knowledge of contemporary and new standards, technologies, tools, frameworks and methods

Location: Pune

This position is for a Client of Vertex Corporate Services which is a Leading MNC IT Captive