Finastra - Director - Software Development

What will you contribute?

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Responsibilities & Deliverables :

- Provide technical and people leadership to multiple engineering teams

- Define and execute engineering strategy on modernization of the lending product.

- Drive adoption of cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectural principles.

- Build a culture of high performance, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

- Oversee full SDLC: requirements, estimation, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.

- Ensure predictable and on-time delivery of product releases with high quality.

- Ensure engineering alignment with product strategy and customer commitments.

- Prioritize engineering capacity, manage cross-team dependencies, and mitigate risks proactively.

- Lead modernization initiatives: microservices, event-driven patterns, container platforms, and distributed systems.

- Own architecture governance, reference architectures, standard frameworks, and technical best practices.

- Ensure secure design, compliance, resiliency, and high system performance.

- Drive automation across CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and operations.

- Build and scale high-performing engineering teams across development

- Coach and mentor senior engineering managers, architects, and leads.

- Partner with Product, Implementation, and Customer teams for successful client outcomes.

- Communicate engineering status and strategy to executive leadership.

Required Experience :

- 18+ years in software engineering; 7+ years managing large engineering teams.

- Experience in BFSI, and preferably in Lending domain

- Experience in building multi-tier architecture based applications

- Experience in providing design decisions, and managing releases of a reasonably complex product

Hands-on understanding of:

i. Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

ii. Microservices, REST/gRPC APIs

iii. Event-driven systems (Kafka/Service Bus)

iv. RDBMS databases

v. Modern UI frameworks (Angular)

- Working experience in building enterprise applications in the following tech stack : Windows/LINUX, JAVA, DB, Backend services(Springboot), Web UI using Angular(Nice to have),

Other skills :

- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.

- Ability to balance product innovation with operational excellence.

- Highly analytical, organized, and execution oriented.