RF Engineer

Role Summary

The Director, Client Relations – Staff Augmentation will lead the end-to-end ownership, scaling, and expansion of the staff augmentation business for key global clients, primarily in North America. This role will be responsible for building and growing a high-quality offshore delivery organization, scaling from an initial team of 10 plus FTEs to 100 plus FTEs across multiple client owned processes.

The Director will act as the senior most client interface, partnering with client leadership to understand demand, define the right staffing model, and ensure seamless execution. This role combines business growth, workforce strategy, delivery governance, and organizational building.

The role will also carry full ownership of the P&L for this line of business, including revenue growth, cost optimization, and long-term scalability.

Key Responsibilities

1) Client Leadership and Business Ownership

• Act as the primary point of contact for senior client stakeholders.
• Build strong executive relationships and position the organization as a trusted partner.
• Own the overall engagement, including delivery quality, growth, and client satisfaction.
• Identify opportunities to expand scope, increase FTE count, and introduce additional processes.
• Lead business reviews with clear insights, growth roadmap, and value delivered.

2) Staff Augmentation Strategy and Workforce Planning

• Define staffing strategy including FTE sizing, role mix, and skill requirements.
• Translate client requirements into structured staffing plans.
• Design scalable team structures and reporting hierarchies.
• Establish frameworks for ramp up from small teams to large scale operations.
• Ensure optimal utilization and capacity planning.

3) Delivery Governance and Operational Excellence

• Oversee delivery across all teams ensuring SLA adherence and quality.
• Define KPIs for performance, productivity, and turnaround time.
• Establish governance cadence and reporting mechanisms.
• Ensure consistency across multiple processes and teams.
• Drive strong issue resolution and escalation handling.

4) Transition and Process Onboarding Oversight

• Guide onboarding of new processes into the staff augmentation model.
• Ensure structured knowledge transfer and documentation.
• Define standard onboarding playbooks.
• Identify risks and readiness gaps during expansion.

5) Organization Building and Talent Leadership

• Lead hiring strategy to support rapid scale up.
• Build strong leadership layers including managers and leads.
• Establish training, cross skilling, and career progression plans.
• Drive a high performance culture with clear accountability.

6) Business Ownership, Revenue Growth, and Financial Management

• Own the line of business including revenue, cost, and profitability.
• Drive revenue expansion by increasing FTE count and adding new processes.
• Define pricing aligned with effort and delivery complexity.
• Monitor revenue realization and billing accuracy.
• Manage cost structure including hiring, utilization, and overheads.
• Optimize FTE mix to balance cost and performance.
• Build financial models for workforce planning and growth.

7) Leadership, Team Development, and Organizational Scaling

• Mentor managers and team leads across processes.
• Build second line leadership.
• Establish performance expectations and review mechanisms.
• Drive ownership and continuous improvement culture.

8) Internal Reporting and Strategic Visibility

• Provide updates to leadership on revenue, cost, margins, and growth.
• Present challenges and mitigation plans.
• Track key business metrics such as utilization and productivity.
• Build dashboards for visibility.
• Support strategic decision making with insights and projections.

Success Measures

• Scale from initial team to 100 plus FTEs with stable delivery.
• High client satisfaction and strong relationships.
• Expansion across processes and geographies.
• Consistent SLA performance.
• Strong financial performance and margins.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Finance, or Business. MBA preferred.
• 12 to 18 plus years of relevant experience.
• Experience scaling teams and managing global clients.
• Strong workforce planning and governance experience.

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to finance operations such as Accounts Payable.
• Experience in offshore delivery models.
• Familiarity with SLA frameworks and staffing models.
• Experience scaling new business lines.

Competencies

• Strong ownership mindset.
• Excellent stakeholder management.
• Structured thinking and execution.
• Strong people leadership.
• Commercial awareness and growth orientation.

Reporting and Location

• Reporting to: Head of Operations or Business Unit Head
• Location: Bangalore or Mangalore with overlap for North America time zones

• Work with developers to design algorithms and flowcharts
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

• 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience

• 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment

• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala

• Agile software development expert
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation

• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

• Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)

Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver scalable web services, APIs and backend data modules.
• Understand requirements and develop reusable code using design patterns & component architecture and write unit test cases
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand the requirements and develop solutions
• Stay current with latest tools, technology ideas and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision makers.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience writing multithreaded programs running in Java
• Experience on Java, Spring Boot,, Apache Nifi ,  workingDocker, EKS, Azkaban, Jenkins
• Experience with Git and build tools like Gradle/Maven/SBT.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, profiling, and optimization.
• Have elegant, readable, maintainable and extensible code style.
• Experience on AWS is preferable
• Knowledge on top algorithms like sorting, heap/stack, queue, search, etc.
• Familiarity with test-driven development
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, with ability to deliver code of quality quickly.
• Attention to details. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or related field
• Experience as a graphic designer or in a related field
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio
• Proficiency with required desktop publishing tools, including Photoshop, InDesign Quark, and Illustrator
• A strong eye for visual composition
• Effective time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to give and receive constructive criticism
• Understanding of marketing, production, website design, corporate identity, product packaging, advertisements, and multimedia design
• Experience with computer-aided design
• A passion for issues around Sustainability, Energy Transition, Climate Action, Distributed & Renewable Energy
• Startup experience desired
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment