Kinara Capital - Head - Data Engineering

About the Company:

Kinara Capital is a FinTech NBFC dedicated to driving Financial Inclusion in the MSME sector.

Our mission is to transform lives, livelihoods, and local economies by providing fast and flexible loans without property collateral to small business entrepreneurs. Led by a women- majority management team, Kinara Capital values diversity and inclusion and fosters a collaborative working environment.

Kinara Capital is the only company from India recognized globally by the World Bank/IFC with a gold award in 2019 as 'Bank of the Year-Asia' for our innovative work in SME financing. Kinara Capital is an RBI-registered Systemically Important NBFC.

Headquartered in Bangalore, we have 110 branches across Karnataka, Gujarat,

Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and UT Puducherry with more than

1000 employees. https://kinaracapital.com/

Job Title: Data Engineering Head

Department: Data Science & Engineering

Report to: CEO

Purpose of Job: Responsible for drawing insights from many sources of data to answer important business questions and help the organization make better use of data in their daily activities.

Job Responsibilities:

- Play a critical role as a member of the leadership team in shaping and supporting our overall company vision, day-to-day operations, and culture

- Set the technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale; including defining long-term goals and strategies

- Define best practices around coding methodologies, software development, and quality assurance

- Define innovative technical requirements and systems while balancing time, feasibility, cost and customer experience

- Build and support production products

- Ensure our internal processes and services comply with privacy and security regulations

- Establish a high performing, inclusive engineering culture focused on innovation, execution, growth and development

- Set a high bar for our overall engineering practices in support of our mission and goals

- Develop goals, roadmaps and delivery dates to help us scale quickly and sustainably

- Collaborate closely with Product, Business, Marketing and Data Science

- Experience with financial and transactional systems

- Experience engineering for large volumes of data at scale

- Experience with financial audit and compliance is a plus

- Experience building a successful consumer facing web and mobile apps at scale

Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Data Science/ Stats or other quantitative fields (CS, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics ) from a top university

- Work Experience: 10+ years of experience building and leading growing engineering functions, ideally for a fintech offering

Other Requirements:

- A thoughtful and proven approach to hiring, mentoring and scaling a top-notch engineering team

- Execute against strategy in cooperation with other teams, including Product Management, Data Science, Business, and Marketing Teams

Skills & Competencies:

Skills:

Technical Skill:

- A strong track record of creating engaging, intuitive and highly secure engineering products from conception to production

- Experience in AWS infrastructure and developer operations environments

- Ability to write clean code and have top-notch general programming skills along with experience coding JavaScript (Node.js) applications/services using frameworks such as Express.

- Experience with Python and Flask is a plus as is Java.

- Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases (eg. MongoDB).

- Performance production databases (eg. DynamoDB) is ideal and experience with big data frameworks (eg. Spark) is a bonus.

- Data savviness

Soft Skills :

- Entrepreneurial mentality with the passion for our mission and in building a highly successful company

- Proven ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Analytical and problem-solving mindset

- Deep Curiosity and Humility

Competencies :

- High social responsibility and mission-driven culture

- Team player

- High Integrity and focus on Building relationships

- Inspiring Leader who instills confidence

- People-oriented and Goal-oriented

Behavioral Traits - Constantly curious:

- Initiator

- High Social Responsibility

- Assertiveness