VP - Software Engineering

Bangalore, India

- Responsible for the product engineering, quality assurance and product support organizations.

- Responsible for delivering high-quality software products, on-time and within budget.

- Work with the CTO team to develop a long-term product plan for client products and manage the release planning cycles for all products.

- Responsible for managing the staffing requirements and skill sets for each product organization, assuring that each team is staffed with sufficient skilled resources and meeting product deliverables.

- Responsible for developing and managing a skills escalation and promotion path for the product engineering organization.

- Responsible for implementing tools and processes to optimize product engineering throughput and quality.

KRAs:

- Ability to work with multiple levels in the organization, and in a global setting

- Ensuring that key milestones are met and that solutions delivered are of the highest quality possible

- Delivery on project timelines, internal and external SLAs with emphasis on turn times and error free work product

- Maintain highest level of internal / external customer satisfaction

- Ensure migration of existing legacy application to the Java platform ensuring a stable production environment.

- Ensure controlled releases to production, with amongst other measures, stringent code reviews from standards and performance perspectives. Use metrics demonstrate success.

- Ensure fit of personnel to tasks.

- Deal decisively with under performing personnel.

- Understand all REAL products with their interrelationships and collective relevance to business and ensure appropriate availability and stability to the Business.

Desired Skills and Experience

Qualifications:-

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering required. MBA preferred

- 18+ years of software development experience, with 10+ years experience in a managerial capacity

- Knowledge of Process Management

- Professional experience with the one or more of the following interactive languages and technologies is required – JAVA, J2EE, Oracle, Microsoft Technologies, Dot Net

- Working knowledge of the residential mortgage industry is an added advantage.