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The Risk and Identity Services (RaIS) team is is leading in innovation to create secure authentication and authorization experience for our customers and partners. As a Director of Software Engineering in RaIS, you will provide hands-on leadership to the team to execute this mission, by leading a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. We expect you to be a idea leader and bring industry practices to benefit the team. This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering.
 

Key Responsibilities

·       Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact

·       Lead a team of 10 to 15 members made up of both full-time employees and contractors.

·       Deliver the product despite complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.

·       Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.

·       Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)

·       Partner with product owners in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business goals.

·       Partner with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development.

·       Drive down technical debt and cost of operations/support.

·       Manage the prioritization and delivery of enhancements and bugfixes on platform.

·       Ensure the process for incident management, change management and problem management are followed.

·       Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.

·       Invest in the career development of direct reports.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.