Director Software Engineering & Development at DataMetica · Pune · 15 - 20 years · ₹25L - ₹50L / yr · Profitable · Posted 20 Dec 2021

As a Director Engineering, your role & responsibility will include the following.
- Define the product roadmap and delivery planning.
- Provides technical leadership in design, delivery, and support of product software and platforms.
- Participate in driving technical architectural decisions for the product.
- Prioritization of the features and deliverable artifacts
- Augmentation of the product development staff.
- Mentor managers to implement best practices to motivate and organize their teams.
- Prepare schedules, report status as well as make hiring decisions.
- Ensure to provide proven ability to evaluate and improve software development best practices.
- Provide DevOps and other processes to assure consistency, quality and timeliness.
- Participate in interviewing as well as hiring final decisions.
- Guide and provide input to all strategic as well as technical planning for entire products.
- Monitor and provide input for evaluation and prioritize change requests.
- Create and monitor the set of policies that establish standard development languages, tools, and methodology; documentation practices; and examination procedures for developed systems to ensure alignment with overall architecture.'
- Participate in project scope, schedule, and cost reviews.
- Understand and socialize product capabilities and limitations.
- Identify and implement ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.
- Establish working relationships with external technology vendors.
- Integrate customer requirements through the engineering effort for championing next generation products.
- Quickly gain an understanding of the company's technology and markets, establish yourself as a credible leader.
- Release scheduling.
- Keeps abreast of new technologies and has demonstrated knowledge and experience in various technologies.
- Manage 3rd party consulting partners/vendors implementing products.
- Prepare and submit weekly project status reports; prepare monthly reports outlining team assignments and/or changes, project status changes, and forecasts project timelines.
- Provide leadership to individuals or team(s) through coaching, feedback, development goals, and performance management.
- Prioritize employee career development to grow the internal pipeline of leadership talent.
- Prioritize, assign, and manage department activities and projects in accordance with the department's goals and objectives. Adjust hours of work, priorities, and staff assignments to ensure efficient operation, based on workload.
Qualification & Experience
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience required.
- Relevant certifications also preferred among other indications of someone who values continuing education.
- 15+ years’ experience "living" with various operating systems, development tools and development methodologies including Java, data structures, Scala, Python, NodeJS
- 8+ years of individual contributor software development experience.
- 6+ years management experience in a fast-growing product software environment with proven ability to lead and engage development, QA and implementation teams working on multiple projects.
- Idea generation and creativity in this position are a must, as are the ability to work with deadlines, manage and complete projects on time and within budget.
- Proven ability to establish and drive processes and procedures with quantifiable metrics to measure the success and effectiveness of the development organization.
- Proven history of delivering on deadlines/releases without compromising quality.
- Mastery of engineering concepts and core technologies: development models, programming languages, databases, testing, and documentation.
- Development experience with compilers, web Services, database engines and related technologies.
- Experience with Agile software development and SCRUM methodologies.
- Proven track record of delivering high quality software products.
- A solid engineering foundation indicated by a demonstrated understanding of
- product design, life cycle, software development practices, and support services. Understanding of standard engineering processes and software development methodologies.
- Experience coordinating the work and competences of software staff within functional project groups.
- Ability to work cross functionally and as a team with other executive committee members.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Communicate effectively with different business units about technology and processes using lay terms and descriptions.
- Experience Preferred:
- Experience building horizontally scalable solutions leveraging containers, microservices, Big Data technologies among other related technologies.
- Experience working with graphical user experience and user interface design.
- Experience working with object-oriented software development, web services, web development or other similar technical products.
- Experience with database engines, languages, and compilers
- Experience with user acceptance testing, regression testing and integration testing.
- Experience working on open-source software projects for Apache and other great open-source software organizations.
- Demonstrable experience training and leading teams as a great people leader.

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