Senior Manager - Engineering - BFSI

Designation: Senior Manager

Education: BTech/MTech from a tier 1 school

Experience:6-8 years of engineering experience (B2C products/platforms, start-ups, tech enabled businesses)

Location: Mumbai

What will you do

- Envision the tech stack for a set of new ideas (most of them not cast in stone) and define the technology roadmap, keeping in mind, business goals,scalability and reliability considerations

- Understand business needs for defining engineering and product building requirements

- Manage technical parts and determine the right technology solutions (upgrade and hosting decisions, code build and deployment)for our new applications/software projects (from inception to launch)

- Be responsible for backend, frontend, infrastructure, architecture, scalability and server-side engineering

- Build, manage and lead the development and maintenance team (in house/outsourced) and ensure delivery of project using agile technologies

- Monitor performanceof individual contributors (engineers) and help manage their professional development

- Collaborate with other team members and functions(e.g., marketing, product, design etc.) to roll out new systems, integrate existing systems and implement ongoing process improvements to the current systems

- Drive resolution to conflicts or remove barriers for the product and engineering teams

- Set and manage expectations, communicate and execute goals within timelines

What are we looking for:

Technical skill requirements:

- Expertise in full stack architecture technologies (back end, front end, DevOps)and cloud-based environment

- Expertise in selection, successful implementation and rapid adoption of new technologies (e.g., decision between low code / no code and custom code)

- Proven record of leading software developers and DevOps resources (inhouse / outsourced)

- Understanding of data architecture and methods of ingestion, storage, extraction and maintenance of data

Attitude / behavioural requirements:

- Self-starter attitude; curiosity and passion to take on challenges and deliver results with minimum direction

- Bias for action (knowing when to trade off perfection for timing; getting things done)

- Ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment

- Out of the box thinking, clarity in thought (great to have wacky ideas, but you should be clear of your wacky ideas)

- Frontend: React, Progressive Web Application (PWA) with Flutter for mobile

- Backend: Python (Flask), NodeJS, OBIEE / Oracle Analytics Cloud

- Databases: Oracle 11g / 19c, DynamoDB, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Redshift

Infrastructure:

- On-premises: Oracle Exadata X3-2 Qtr rack (EDW)

- AWS Cloud: ECS, S3, Lambda functions, Athena, Elasticsearch Service, Database Migration Service (DMS), EMR, Karka(EC2), Nifi(EC2), API Gateway, Kinesis Streams, Kinesis Firehose

- DevOps: IAM, KMS, SNS, Cloudwatch

- CI / CD pipeline: jenkins, gitlab, ansible, artifactory, Docker, CloudFormation

- Reporting: Qlik Sens

Note: Please evaluate the current tech stack and suggest what changes you would make (and why)