Head - IT Application Deployment - NBFC

Clix Capital is a new age NBFC revolutionizing the lending space by offering differentiated digital lending products that are driven by technology and deep analytics. It offers a range of lending products to a varied spectrum of customers across the MSME and consumer segment, including personal loans, MSME loans, healthcare loans, and mortgage finance.

Clix is co-founded by industry veterans Mr. Pramod Bhasin and Mr. Anil Chawla and is backed by a private equity fund AION Capital Partners Limited (an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, LLC - one of the largest alternate investment managers globally with AUM of $433 billion). Mr. Bhasin is the founder of Genpact and the former CEO of GE Capital India and Asia; and Mr. Chawla has been the former CEO of GE Capital India and Asia's Commercial Finance Business.

Together Mr. Bhasin, Mr. Chawla and AION jointly acquired the commercial lending and leasing business of GE Capital India in September 2016 and rechristened it Clix Capital.

Roles & Responsibilities

- From a birds-eye view, the incumbent will spend time planning, testing, tracking, release, deployment, communication, and risk management.

- Plan the release of project deliverables and release life cycle

- Communicate the project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc. between different teams.

- Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates.

- Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.

- Track the progress and find issues, if any. Always work to improve the process of release.

- Make sure that the release is planned, according to the requirements and budget.

- Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release.

- Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.

- Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities

- Make sure the allocation of Release Engineers to every release.

- Communicate with release managers from different IT departments.

- Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully.

- Team up with relevant development teams responsible for building the automation tools used to develop and deploy the software.

- Schedule the CAB meetings to discuss the release schedules with the team and find roadblocks, if any.

- Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications lists, and dependencies.

- Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.