Head - Product Engineering - SaaS

Role : Head of Product Engineering ( for a SAAS based Company)

Location : Bangalore

Role Summary:

- We are now looking to induct a Head of Product Engineering for our Client which is a SAAS based Product Company.

- The Head of Product Engineering will direct the product management and engineering efforts, be the custodian of the product vision, own the product roadmap, and deliver world class products. Should be hands-on and enjoy solving deep technical issues.

- Be innovative and provide thought leadership. A passionate intrapreneur who will partner with us in building a High-end Technology product from India, which aims to be a Global leader in the P-A-S-S- (performance, availability, scalability and security) Assurance space.

- This is a career-defining opportunity to have a direct impact on the growth and expansion of the Organisation and build and ship world class products from India for the world.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Closely collaborate with the leadership team to define, guide, and develop the strategy and future roadmap of all the products.

- Through your deep understanding of our customers' challenges and close partnership with engineering, lead your team to build features that delight our customers.

- Lead and successfully deliver new products and enhance existing products in the space of application performance monitoring and engineering.

- Enhance ML/AI powered products in the AI Ops and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) space

- Build and deliver new products using technologies like ML/AI

- Lead and successfully deliver new products and enhance existing products using J2EE technologies. Design-develop-test-deploy J2EE applications.

- Enhanced product delivery in Apache Spark and Kafka.

- Hands On with Data pipelines.

- Hands on with Linux Servers in UAT and Production.

- Play an important role in the success of the products

- Play an active role in winning business throughs pre-sales, product demos and engaging with customer at multiple levels

- Product delivery

- Conduct project reviews

- Go to person for technical or for managing risk across projects

- Build product engineering capability

- Innovation and Thought leadership

- Imagines and implements unique, breakthrough ideas

- Foresees customer & industry needs & responds with exceptional product ideas

- Do run-ahead research and build prototypes for new features or to optimize existing systems for performance or costPresent paper and run blogs (directly and through team)

- Build company and self-brand through thought leadership

- Coaching & Mentoring

- Lead from the front

- Takes ownership for building capability in the organization by effective coaching and mentoring to move others to a higher level of working.

Skills & Experience :

- MBA / BE / B.Tech with 12-18 Years of experience with at least 10 years hands-on experience in the IT Product Development

- Proven track record of leading, developing, and scaling a world-class product

- A strong grasp of product management best practices (how to organize a roadmap, how to plan specific features, how to coordinate across teams, etc.), and engineering best practices (organizing teams, sprint execution, etc.), and a track record of converting those best practices into action

- Empathy for our customers and the ability to understand and prioritize their needs via user feedback, user research, experimentation, and data

- Experience in Java/ J2EE technologies like core java, Spring framework and other java technologies

- Experience in Analytics like - Node.js, Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, Elastic Search

- Good experience of distributed systems, data infrastructure, & client/server architectures.

- Experience of using any of the one enterprise APM tools - Dynatrace, AppDynamics or New Relic is a must.

- Experience of building APM products, Observability platform will be an added advantage.

- Experienced in defining and realizing end-to-end Technical Architecture for large scale IT Products

- Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint, Design specifications, Deployment architecture etc.

- Good skills in at least one RDBMS (Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL) and NoSQL DB like Cassandra / Mongo DB

- Exposure to Agile methodologies & Continuous Integration Tools

- Good understanding of Cloud Hosted SaaS products - experience in working with any of AWS, Google or Azure cloud

- Good to have experience in Python and R as development languages with their frameworks like Pandas, matplotlib etc.

- Good to have development experience in statistical analysis, data modeling, algorithm development like linear regression, random forest and other classification methods.

- Good to have an experience on any of the front-end technologies like React.js, Angular.js etc.

- Inclination and ability to be hands-on and work side-by-side with engineers.

- Good Pre-sales experience and have played a key role in winning business along with the sales team.

- Solid business and strategic intuition

- A metrics-driven approach to product prioritization and feature and team performance

- Excellent communication, inter-personal, liaison and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment