Director - Product Development - Banking Solution

FusionBanking Essence is a modern, state of the art, scalable, J2EE, SOA based universal banking solution that has been deployed by a large number of banks and financial institutions around the globe. It is a multi-channel solution that supports branches, internet banking, ATM and point of sale. Its multi-dimensional data model allows banks to get a holistic 360 degree view of their customers

Responsibilities Include :

- Managing a team of 20+ developers, to deliver on product roadmap

- Designing and developing enterprise class highly scalable mission critical applications

- Collaborating with product management, testing and external customers to deliver innovative, highly usable products and modules

- Reviewing business requirements and coming up with high level time and cost estimates

- Producing technical design and solution approach for new products/modules

- Holding technical reviews and product walkthroughs

- Representing technology in client meetings

- Full ownership and accountability to deliver on agreed upon plans within budget, on schedule and to defined quality standards.

- Regular use/reporting of metrics for resource allocation, software defects, productivity, and efficiency.

- Ensuring commitments and progress to schedules remain clear, reasonable, and are proactively monitored.

- Recruiting new talent and coaching team members to build a world class team

- Establishment of performance goals for all team members.

Required Domain Experience :

- Demonstrated expertise in delivering innovative enterprise-class products

- Strong understanding of system architecture, object-oriented design, standard java frameworks and design patterns

- 12+ years of experience in enterprise SW development, preferably in a distributed team

- 6+ years of experience as a people manager

- 6+ years of experience in J2EE, SOA, EAI, Workflow and Web Services technologies.

- Strong Platform development experience required

- Experience in developing applications using Big Data stack of Spark/storm, Kafka, Zookeeper

- Experience in building PAAS on cloud

- Must be knowledgeable in at least one of the relational databases (DB2, MS-SQL, Oracle)

- Prior experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies is a must

- Banking or financial industry experience is a plus

- BE/B. Tech - CS/ECE

Required Skills :

- Excellent strategic thinking, technical, problem solving and project management skills

- Brilliant written, verbal and telephonic communication skills

- Proven ability to successfully handle ambiguity and risk taking

- Passion for engineering excellence and usability

- Ability to shape ideas and opinions through proper communications and networking with key stakeholders using one's knowledge and experience.

- Ability to motivate and inspire confidence in others through goal-focused actions.