Senior Director - Application Development - IT

We have been retained by one of the largest Product Development and Data processing Global organization to identify Senior Director - Application Development for leading their product development activities.

This is a hands-on leadership role with technical as well as managerial responsibilities. This role requires deep application development experience and product delivery experience in a well-known product company. Qualified candidates will have extensive experience managing teams of Development Managers, Architects and Product Owners.

Location : Chennai

Roles and responsibilities :

Technical responsibilities will include :

- Driving innovation within the team to provide solutions for the unmet needs of the product and conceptualizing, architecting, and delivering products by closely working with other stakeholders

- Lead, mentor and motivate team members to maximize their potential, to deliver high quality software and continually improve the development process

- Own, define and work with cross-functional teams to deliver key programs meeting organisations 's objectives and expectations

- Drive initiatives, process and approaches to improve quality, productivity and efficiency

- Management responsibilities include project management, process management, quality management, people management, talent acquisition, performance management, rewards planning activities and development of the team

- Be a student of current industry trends, ensuring that the company maintains and expands its technology leadership position

- Driving Engineering Excellence and Continuous Improvements

- Solid experience in delivering products in an Agile environment

- Strong business and financial acumen, with experience in budget planning and forecasting

Desired skills and experience :

Technical :

- B.E / B.Tech/MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline with10+ years- product development experience within an R&D or new product development group

- Successful track record of delivering complex engineering projects combining development and test in an Agile environment

- Expertise in engineering/development/operations processes - Agile, CI/CD, Devops and major RDBMS platforms (MS SQL Server, Oracle, IBM)

- Knowledge of HCM Product Development would be a huge advantage

- Extensive experience in .NET technology stacks/ Open source with strong object oriented design knowledge and UX designing

- Large & complex systems software architecture, design and development experience

Management :

- Minimum 8 years of proven track record in people management with skills on talent acquisition, performance management, rewards planning activities and development of team; proven experience in leading, coaching and mentoring teams.

- Minimum 10 years of proven track record in project management that includes planning, tracking, managing priorities, setting expectations, process/risk/issue management and delivering commitments with focus on quality and process adherence

- Experience of working in an international team context in distributed projects

- Proven track record of delivering software in agile methods and techniques as well as continuous integration

Leadership :

- Strategic & Incisive thinking with decisiveness and strong perseverance

- Zeal for innovation and questioning the conventional thinking. Good industry knowledge on relevant technology

- Passion for building software products, obsess customers and high level of ownership

- Self driven, passionate and positive attitude during tough situations

- Excellent communication, collaboration, negotiation, conflict management and teamwork skills

Should you have the relevant qualifications mandated above and are interested and feel free to give Deepti of KayZenGroup a call on +91 9825312023