Senior Manager/AVP - Software Development - BFSI

Our client is a subsidiary of the USD 9 Billion Fairfax Financial Holdings (http://www.fairfax.ca/) which is launching operations in India in July 2017

Position: Senior Manager / AVP - Software Development

Work Location: Bangalore

Roles and responsibilities

Scope of role

Responsible for Design, Solutioning and multiple Product Releases

To develop a strategy for the team to meet the company's goals and objectives, and to improve the quality of the service it delivers internally and externally. To plan and monitor the successful implementation of this strategy

Responsible for the quality and technical approach taken by team members, ensuring it is in-line with the company strategy - and that projects are delivered on time and on budget

Team leadership, strategy & planning

To lead and manage a Software Development Team and supporting them in building industry leading, robust and innovative software solutions

To drive the strategic direction of our products & services taking into account emerging and legacy technologies

To devise a tactical plan which can be collaboratively carried out by the team - to implement improvements to products, services, processes and knowledge sharing within the team

Software development

To keep up to date with the latest software development technologies and methodologies

To drive consistent standards and approaches throughout the team

To build future-proof reusable libraries, which can be shared, in-order to drive further efficiencies throughout the team

To deliver code which is well tested and consistently error free

To design and build database schemas with integrity and scalability with data access layers that are optimised for performance and security

Innovation and research and development

To proactively drive innovation with new ideas and options made available by new technologies

To maintain and actively contribute to a list of innovation & research projects

To assist by offering strategic and technical advice for anyone working on these projects

Implementing and monitoring ongoing strategies to enable us to deliver quality and excellence through robust testing education and policies that are balanced and appropriate to the scope of project being delivered. To foster a focus on excellence across the development team

Experience and Qualification Required

- Bachelor/Master's degree with 15 - 16 years of Experience in Software Development (Java)

- Direct work experience in a design, development, project management capacity, including all aspects of development and execution.

- Should have handled at least 3-4 large / medium scale projects from end to end in PM roles