Sr VP - Software Product Development & Delivery - IT BFSI

Role: Senior VP : Software Product Development and Delivery

Location: Mumbai

Budget: Open for the right candidate

Position Description:

- Senior Management role with total responsibility to handle multiple software products

- Very diverse and challenging role needing strong proven skills and expertise including in Software Development, Project Management with a high degree of people handling skills.

- Strong domain skills will be needed for the role. The role will have P&L responsibilities and underwriting of the Sales targets for the products.

- The Role will also work closely with Pre-sales and Product management functions in the company

- Strong in Web and mobile technologies.

Skills:

- Overall relevant industry experience of 20+ years including Software product development and delivery experience of at least 10 years preferably with a major part in BFSI segment.

- Exposure to Software Product development including Conceptualisation, Analysis, Design, Development, Version management, Implementation and Support. Prior exposure to pre-sales work including creation and conducting of product demo's and Product waklkthru's a must.

- Experience of working with international clients and timely delivery of Product releases, strong Product development processes exposure absolute musts for the role.

- Prior exposure to client contracting, sub-vendor management, team leading and team management experience and demonstrated expertise in managing products with emphasis on timeliness, quality and profitability a Must.

Educational Qualification: Engineer/ MBA

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Create, Monitor and Deliver software products as per Business Plans of the company and specific customer commitments, on time and within planned costs and investments.

- Identify and track risks proactively and practice active risk mitigation measures

- Lead, resource, train and manage Delivery teams.

- Plan and implement industry good practices in all areas of software product development and delivery; build and run operations on a strong metrics model

- Align closely with Sales, Pre-sales and Product development functions towards building and sustaining of products for meeting revenue targets of the company

- Optimisation of company resources- infrastructure and people- by leading efforts on Quality improvement, Technology advancement, efficient processes, Re-usability initiatives and Knowledge retention and its management .

- Participate and contribute to the building of company and Product branding , Product collaterals and Product Demo's

- Provide leadership inputs for developing appropriate costing and pricing models for various products in the suite

- Provide leadership in component sourcing, Hardware and communications, vendor management

- Provide contents and inputs for enhancement to the Internal Training Programs within the Division for improving the Product knowledge and market knowledge.

- Motivate, retain and recruit qualified and skilled teams.

Linson Thomas
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