Vice President - Product Engineering

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Vice President of Product Engineering

What will you do:

• Ensure high-quality deliveries for multiple products concurrently as per agreed timelines and quality.
• Proactively monitor and track multiple projects with a focus to mitigate potential risks.
• Accountable for the implementation of technical strategy and architectural vision for the organization's software product development and/or engineering functions.
• Identify parts of solutions ready for “productization”. Support design, development, and adoption of products.
• Support development and execution of product strategy.
• Oversee, review, and implement the appropriate Governance & escalation model for all the products/programs.
• Focus on the service delivery improvement initiatives along with respective delivery.
• People management & stakeholder management within the organization and clients.
• Client Management.
• Adhere to clients- processes and metrics of performance and quality parameters.
• Implement new product development strategies to complement existing service offerings.
• Establish and maintain a blended iterative SDLC and Product Development methodologies to achieve a consistent approach to project management.
• Work to solve the problems articulated by product management or other teams and ensure that resulting software products meet the organization's standards of quality and performance.
• Ensure that high standards of reliability, quality, usability, and measurement are adhered throughout each phase of product development.
• Evaluate technical feasibility, design optimization, and production issues.
• Resolve the bottlenecks with the support teams.
• Identify opportunities for reusability across Products and Programs
• Partner with the global product team to build implementation guides and ensure its adherence to projects.
• Partner with development COE on best practices and standards. Accountable for the implementation of those standards
• Own the technical solution in RFPs/RFI response process.
  

Who are you:

• Program Delivery leader with 20+ years of experience in the software industry, preferably from the Healthcare Domain
• Agile leader. Hands on people management. Be the coach and leader for the team and delivery. Flexible travel domestically and internationally.
• Passion to conceive, design and implement innovative products.
• Solve delivery / solutions / product integration problems of the product.
• Product delivery management experience, preferably large engagements
• Manage Delivery excellence parameters quality, productivity, estimation and agile.
• Ensure high utilization, and healthy profit margins.
• Identify potential risks and issues in product implementation, services, and solutions.
• Usage of appropriate tools to communicate ideas/creative solutions.
• Good Resource / Stakeholder Management
  

Education:

• Should be from BE/B.Tech background.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or a related area, or equivalent experience, desired.
  

Skills:

• End to end program software delivery life cycle.
• Project planning and progress monitoring
• Agile methodology and Engineering principles for application delivery.
• Program Estimation, risk assessment, SDLC metrics.
• Budgeting and resourcing.
• Stakeholder management
• Onsite and offshore model
  

Soft Skills:

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Leader with an attitude of self-starter with excellent people skills.
• Effective time and project management.
• Analytical thinker and a great team player. Attention to detail is a must.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal & problem-solving skills.