Head - Product Implementation - Big Data/Cloud/Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

Total Exp : 14 - 18 Years

Responsible to lead and give direction to the Product Implementation arm of Company

- 6-7 years of relevant experience in implementing products.

- Responsible to lead a group of project/program managers and project delivery teams from different sub groups such as NLP, Analytics and Engg. Develop a team environment that supports team engagement and high performance in a diverse, distributed and partnered team.

- Coach and empower delivery teams to take accountability for delivery, risk and issue management and assisting by removing blockers.

- Coordinate closely with Resource Managers and Product Managers to plan a deliverable's execution, while taking responsibility for planning the management of scope, costs and schedule.

- Proactively manages and addresses performance issues in delivery team members.

- Provide technical advice and direction to teams and customers with a view to inform business strategy, and deliver technical solutions, that drives innovation and business outcomes in an Agile way of working.

- Provide advice and thought leadership to ensure successful design and implementation of technology strategies that align with divisional corporate goals and strategies.

- Manage team operations, including portfolio planning, resource, financial and risk management

- Be certified and updated on product functionality, domain and competitive knowledge

- Experience in program management or project management, with the ability to manage several projects concurrently. 

Experience in following skills (Skills, Experience):

- Projects involving Analytics, solutions development & implementation comprising of big-data, cloud, NoSQL, Machine Learning technologies and DevOps processes such as CI/CD, Containerization tools and technologies

- Excellent adaptive team leadership capabilities including the ability to foster productive team dynamics, engage and enable teams and coach for performance

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation and influencing skills

- Ability to lead dispersed and diverse agile technology teams to deliver continuous value for customers

- Demonstrated learning agility and ability to rapidly adjust to new contexts, technologies and trends

- Able to create effective team environments for people to innovate and learn

- Proven ability to consult and facilitate discussions regarding alternative approaches and to broker consensus across broad stakeholder groups

- Strong stakeholder management, planning, organisation, decision making and time management skills

- Ability to prioritise, multi-task and effectively delegate

- High level of flexibility with a strong ability to lead others successfully through cultural, process, system and transformational change

- Ability to contribute to and understand strategic perspectives and translate into tactical actions