Director - Product Management - Software

Job Description :

- Be responsible for Big data and analytics platform comprising data management, AI/ML algorithms cs service, data lake offerings

- Responsible for Cross product integration including external upstream and downstream systems such as Veeva/SFDC (CRM), Workday (HR System) and MDM solutions

- Own common data management, analytics and cross product integration roadmap and requirements.

- Driving Product Vision and Strategy while maintaining 'Big Picture' focus; balancing business needs with technology assessments & recommending alternative approaches to meet business requirements

- Aligning synergies across organization for better planning, alignment and road mapping, business growth. Demonstrated close association with all the verticals specifically development team

- Work with architects and senior engineers and understand the platform components and how to update them

- Review key building blocks and suggest innovative solutions to optimize performance, scale and maintenance

- Evaluate the market for emerging technology trends and technology stacks for the domain and space

- Understand the requirements for the applications to be implemented and work with the professional services teams to ensure product architecture supports that easily for new implementations as well as migrations

- Work with client teams, customers, UX and Product Management to understand business requirements and customer pain points.

- Perform low level research to break down high level business requirements into written detailed

- requirements consumable by engineering teams.

- Participate in scrum meetings to provide clarity on requirements and acceptance criteria at requirement level.

- Ramp up on products to understand the requirements in context of products.

- Conduct requirements review sessions.

- Articulate the requirements with help of Visio diagrams where makes sense.

- Manage and track requirements change requests.

- Work with client teams to get an agreement on scope of changes and enhancements to existing products.

- Must be able to explain design decisions to their peers and articulate the advantages and risks of

- their decisions to senior managers. This is a hands-on position requiring analyst skills.

Experience

- Min. 12+ years of combined experience in software engineering, architecture and technical product management with hands on coding and architecture experience needed

- Experience in Big data and analytics space, machine learning, artificial intelligence

- Experience in cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

- Relevant technical knowledge of Enterprise Data Integration or Enterprise Application Integration software products including defining data contracts level requirements for API based integration

- Experience in Integrating at least one or more ETL tools, CRM, HR systems and MDM systems with enterprise grade products

- Experience working with Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) and deep working knowledge of APIs

- Experience in working directly with customer's IT group to elicit the data management, analytics and integration requirements

- Experience in defining roadmap and highly technical requirements/user stories in agile environment

- Ability to speak technical language with architects and software engineering team to convert business requirement into detailed technical requirements

- Experience in working with cross-functional team comprising of development, UX, professional services team and leading small team of product managers

- Experience with cloud and big data technologies is a plus

- Outward Centric - managing expectation while measuring KPIs and iterating accordingly. Stressing on Customer Feedback, Market Research and Usability Studies

- Technology enthusiast with inclination towards conceptualing, POCs, experimenting.

- Understanding of Technical Concepts like Databases, Product Architecture - Monolithic vs Microservices, Python, Integration, ETL etc.

Basic Qualifications

ZS welcomes candidates with degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics or a related discipline. Additionally, we seek individuals with the following qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in CS, EE, or related discipline

- Strong analytic, problem solving, and programming ability

- Comfort working with architecture diagrams and pseudo code

- Initiative and drive to contribute

- Excellent organizational and task management skills

- Strong communication skills

- Ability to work in global cross-office teams