The posting
The is a senior role which involves leading Fintech and get to work amongst the
sharpest of minds in the banking fraternity (Indian and global) in Product and
Technology. This is a challenging role which expects the incumbent to work
with constant agility with various teams and deliver the best products in the
space using effective technology platforms.
As Head of Technology, you will Lead and build the engineering team, manage
product engineering, release and deployment across geographies and
work closely with the Product Teams. You will also play an integral role in the
evolution of the architecture and product roadmaps in the rapidly growing
product suite
● Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision. Drive and
own multiple technology initiatives for bringing Platform vision to life
● Ensure platforms are designed for scale, availability and performance
using microservices architecture and as per API first design principles
across geographies
● Review and recommend improvements to operational processes and
procedures utilizing automation.
● Responsible for key technical and product decisions.Implement best practices to ensure security and availability - devise
processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production
applications
● Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, change
management and reporting
● Responsible for debugging critical technical issues inside a complex
stack involving spring boot microservices, containers, cloud services,
etc.
● Work closely with product / project teams as well as clients and help
provide relevant inputs from the engineering team.
● Partnering closely with product teams to scope out releases and deliver
high quality output.
● Coordinate and direct project execution, detailing plans to accomplish
goals and directing the integration of technical activities.
● Collaborating with peers to design and implement new operational
capabilities as well as improving existing toolset
● From the technology perspective, mentoring other leads in the
organization
● Forge and instill goals and standards for engineering performance
● Implementing best practice engineering methods. Mentoring and
supporting the team by reinforcing practices such as Test Driven
Development, pair programming, refactoring, enhanced observability
and documentation
● Present technical solutions, problem areas, proof of concepts to the
team or wider audience
● Participate in cross team coordinated development activities
● Create and deliver on the long term road map for engineering
efficiency.
● Be the go-to person for non-functional requirements such as scalability,
and performance.
● Measure and ensure engineering, and product delivery goals are met,
at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and
performance
● Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all
stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process
● Experience adopting and deploying FOSS tools in production
● Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each
engineer system
● Essentially this role entails combining the best of a project manager
AND a technical architect
Team Management:
● Manage multiple technology delivery teams
● Lead engineering team(s) to ship high-quality software on predictable
schedules.
● Managing a team of bright engineers, each of whom is building a
production-ready system for various clients
● Augment skills and capability of the engineering team by recruiting and
training the members across levels
● Responsible for coaching, developing, motivating & retaining team
members
