Director, Product Development Engineering

Role Value Proposition

Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of software development solutions within a defined system, platform or product, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency acrost the enterprise data, reduce risk and promote efficiencies in support of the organization’s goals and objectives. This family can be used for 

both roles that require a complete technology stack of capabilities as well as roles that require to work on a single technology stack, application or platform.

Key Responsibilities

•Directs multiple product teams in the development and maintenance of an E2E IT solution. Overseeing Solution Architecture and/or Product/Application Architecture.

•Implementation of technology roadmap.

•Responsible for setting, prioritizing, and accepting the work generated by multiple Agile teams in order to ensure the platform meets the defined goals and vision. 

•Technical leader, responsible for guiding the team to make solid technical decisions to meet the product capability needs aligned to the customer.

•Enables teams to remove barriers and resolve conflicts so that the team can move forward in development. Implements audit controls, application security best practice and architecture designs that address currency, to plan through potential risks associated with product and/or processes.

•Ensure vendor performance and deliverables meet contract specifications

•Full people management responsibility for direct product team including hiring, firing, promotions, performance, career and compensation management, & training & development.

•Matrix management responsibility for cross functional team members aligned to product team that includes performance management.

•Maintain awareness of trends and issues in area of technical expertise, evaluate new technologies or technology opportunities, and provide analysis of their potential impact to advance the business. High level understanding of the business' way of working and contributes to solutions that solve challenges by leveraging technology.

•Lead multiple product teams software delivery through continuous focus on software development and maintenance metrics and KPIs.

•Implement user centric design and agile development life cycle.

•Develops high level resources to planned feature outcomes, with awareness of over /under utilization and ways to adjust. 

•Tracks usage of platforms across business units, and defines costs per business unit accordingly

Education:

Bachelor’s degree (Any Stream) or diploma with a minimum of 15 years of education

Experience (Role Requirement): 10+ Years

Technical Skill:

• Agile Practices

• Application Design/Architecture

• Cloud Native Technologies

• Relationship/Stakeholder Management

• Team Management/Engagement 

• Product/Business/Industry Knowledge

• DevSecOps, CI/CD

• Secure design and coding practices

• Applicable Development Language

Other Critical Requirements Like Voice/Non-Voice for Insurance

- SAFe Scrum Master

• DevSecOps, CI/CD

• Application Design/Architecture

• Cloud Native Technologies 

• Secure design and coding practices

• Applicable Development Language

• Product/Business/Industry Knowledge

• Relationship/ Stakeholder Management 

• Team Management/Engagement 

 Agile Practices