Director, Product Development Engineering

Role: Director, Product Development Engineering

Location: Hyderabad

Job Type: Fulltime

Work Type: Onsite/ Hybrid

Position Summary:

We are a leading provider of Group Benefits. The Group Disability technology organization is a diverse team of technologists, all working towards the common goal of ensuring the customer is at the center of everything we do. This position is expected to perform effective business and technology delivery in Disability and Absence space. Someone with minimal directions should be able to liaison with business, various technology partners and vendor partners to deliver high impact products and services. Looking for someone with good hands-on delivery experience in Azure cloud platforms, Systems integrations, Application development & maintenance. Someone who can drive strategic initiatives such as POCs on AI, Application modernizations, Agile delivery model, Digital experience & Service integrations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Directs multiple product teams in the development and maintenance of an E2E IT solution.
• Overseeing Solution Architecture and/or Product/Application Architecture. Implementation of technology roadmap.
• Responsible for setting, prioritizing, and accepting the work generated by multiple Agile teams to ensure the platform meets the defined goals and vision.
• Technical leader, responsible for guiding the team to make solid technical decisions to meet the product capability needs aligned to the customer.
• Enables teams to remove barriers and resolve conflicts so that the team can move forward in development.
• Implements audit controls, application security best practice and architecture designs that address currency, to plan through potential risks associated with product and/or processes.
• Ensure vendor performance and deliverables meet contract specifications
• Full people management responsibility for direct product team including hiring, firing, promotions, performance, career and compensation management, & training & development.
• Matrix management responsibility for cross functional team members aligned to product team that includes performance management.
• Maintain awareness of trends and issues in area of technical expertise, evaluate new technologies or technology opportunities, and provide analysis of their potential impact to advance the business.
• High level understanding of the business' way of working and contributes to solutions that solve challenges by leveraging technology.
• Lead multiple product teams’ software delivery through continuous focus on software development and maintenance metrics and KPIs.
• Implement user centric design and agile development life cycle.
• Develops high level resources to planned feature outcomes, with awareness of over /under utilization and ways to adjust.
• Tracks usage of platforms across business units, and defines costs per business unit accordingly

Job Requirements:

Education:

• Engineering degree and preferably advance degree in Technology domain

Experience:

• 18+ years related work experience successfully delivered on large, complex projects with demonstrated technical leadership in delivery.
• Demonstrated work experience in application design/development, cloud native technologies, agile practices and delivery, DevSecOps, secure design and coding principles and Data analytics domains with strong delivery management exposure in Agile environment

Knowledge and skills (general and technical):

• Service delivery: Application development

Other Requirements (licenses, certifications, specialized training)

• Knowledge on Scale Agile & product management is preferred
• Industry Certifications in SAFe, Azure, AI etc.,

How will you balance rapid innovation—like AI PoCs and cloud modernizations—with the stringent audit, security, and regulatory requirements inherent in Group Disability systems?