• 21+ years of IT experience in delivery, development and support of financial products and applications to the global Wealth Management industry.• Significant experience of leading large software teams of 75+ developers/QAs for more than 5 years.• Good exposure in Dot .Net /JAVA/J2EE technology and Web technologies • Strong Agile mindset• Work closely with product managers to define and execute product delivery.• At least five years of leadership responsibility operating in a matrix environment.• Proven project management, excellent communication skills and demonstrated customer-focused leadership ability.• Define and execute go-forward technology strategy – Cloud, UI Modernizations • Identify and plan to mitigate risks with technical debt• Responsible for driving the operational efficiencies by creating reusable components, identifying automation candidates for reducing effort, time to market. • Interacts with senior management on matters concerning product releases, People and functionalities. • Build a motivated and successful team and lead it towards common goals• Understanding of agile methodology, e.g. SAFe, with competence utilizing project management software (e.g. Rally, Azure etc.) to write concise user stories to communicate with the Engineering and QA teams and to ensure feasibility.• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to challenge others in a constructive manner• Ability to work on multiple complex tasks against deadlines and shifting priorities and to comfortably deals with VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity)• Hiring, retention, training, evaluation of the directs and team• Drive Agile Process Transformation, Automation, CI/CD• Ability to adapt to and embrace frequent change with a positive attitude.

Roles and Responsibilities• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.• Involved in design and solution reviews. • Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.• Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization.• Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes.• Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements.• Own all operational metrics and support.• Interaction with on-shore counter parts, QC, BA, Product, support and code move teams. • Involved in release, patch planning for the product.• Set project quality and performance standards. Assess and manage risk over the project lifecycle. Maintain project tracking and information systems.• Encourage adoptions of latest technologies, promote use of best practices and design patterns. • Having experience in water fall development lifecycle and Agile/Iterative methodology to deliver software/product in timely manner. • Having extensive experience in financial product development and managing integration projects across products.• Involved in team appraisal and calibration process.• Managing cross location teams situated at India and USA. • Responsible for cost and budget planning and managing..

Software Development