Director - Technology - BFSI

Technology Leadership

- Goods experience in to Java technology and investment banking domain

- Reviews Delivery definition and works with the team to come up with the overall architecture.

- Fine tunes the architecture to account for time pressure, team’s expertise and project requirements to ensure on-time delivery.

- Active on-going involvement in Design and Code reviews to ensure best practices are being followed and code quality is maintained at the highest level.

- Solves problems as they are presented - even when deadlines, prototypes, etc change. Provides Development accountability for technology solutions as appropriate.

- Keeps on top of issues across projects and applications for the corresponding business line and proactively works to minimize them.

- Works with Development Managers across other business lines to identify areas of synergy and building the best in class solutions.

- Keeps abreast of the latest technology trends and tools and continuously leverages them to speed up delivery and provide the most efficiency.

- Promotes technical know-how in the broader team by conducting technical training and encourages other members of the team to do the same.

- Routes problems to the most effective destination for those problems' solution.
dentify and implement key processes to better manage the delivery and enhance risk management.

People Management & Leadership

- Comfortable leading a team of 10-20 people, motivating the team and ensuring that they are best positioned to succeed.

- Establishes goals and objectives with staff. Provides on-going performance feedback and mentoring. Ensures that career path of the team members are well defined and they know how to achieve them.

- Enforces company policies and procedures as a member of management for all employees.

- Manages and directs work of the technology team, ensuring assignments meet deadlines, department and company standards

- Directs the team's personnel administration activities including interviewing, hiring, training, job assignment, performance evaluation and compensation review

- Continuously enhance the effectiveness and productivity of the team. Be vigilant to Key Man Risk and actively alleviates it.

- Reaches out to all teams within the company including Product Manager, Business Analysts, Project Managers, QA, Infra and Release management and builds strong relationship.

Stakeholder Management

- Works closely with the corresponding business counterpart and develop strong relationship with stakeholder.

- Acquires in-depth domain knowledge to have right level of conversations around business roadmap.

- Provides on-going transparency around the work being done for the corresponding business line. Highlights key risk areas and provides corresponding solutions.

- Experience having difficult conversations with stakeholders where multiple priorities are competing for a small set of resources.

- Ability to coordinate across multiple teams to ensure that consolidated update is available for the key business deliverable.

Personal competencies

- Strong communicator who is able to convey the message in multiple settings.

- Extensive experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

- Ability to maintain high degree of motivation in team members to retain focus of providing highest levels of customer satisfaction

- Ability to build strong bonds with employees to foster open, honest and candid communication

- Ability to successfully operate with ambiguous guidelines and changing priorities

- Ability to create and maintain highest levels of confidentiality when dealing with proprietary information and sensitive situations

- High level of problem solving skills.

- Demonstrations of judgment and an ability to respond to challenging situations.

- Displays high level of Stamina, Energy and Drive.

Nitesh