Engineering Director

About the Company
Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. With 20+
years of specialization in product and platform engineering, Ness is a global leader in digital transformation. We
design, build, & integrate digital platforms and enterprise software that help organizations to engage with
customers, differentiate their brands, and drive profitable growth for them. Our experience designers, software
engineers, data experts, and business consultants, partner with clients to develop roadmaps that identify ongoing
opportunities to increase the value of their digital solutions and enterprise systems. The exciting work happens
through 11 innovation hubs with 4000+ Nessians located across the globe.
Please visit our website www.ness.com and learn about our wonderful work.
We are inviting applications for Engineering Director. In this role you would be working towards developing the
organization’s strategy for using technological resources. Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and
securely and evaluating and implementing new solutions.
Roles & Responsibility

• Provide technical leadership to deliver software solutions that exceed customer expectations for entire

software engineering teams. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader.

• Manage software engineering teams that builds, designs, implements, and maintains products and related

services.

• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions involving multiple personas including engineering, architect,

product, customer, and other stakeholders.

• Lead a culture of innovation & experimentation, support full product development lifecycle incorporating the

best of technology and delivery methodologies.

• In-charge of team building, stimulate hiring, training, performance reviews and career plans for software

engineering team.

• Manage the software development team, measure, and improve team engagement, engineering excellence,

productivity and team velocity.

• Coach and develop individual contributors and managers, foster a high-performing engineering culture.
• Direct and manage software engineering resource allocation, schedules and budget ensuring on time product

releases enabling the core vision of next generation systems compliant with regulatory requirements.

• Own the product quality, scalability, security, and performance of applications, systems, and integrations.
• Instill a mindset of curiosity and challenging status quo with a goal to drive faster speed to market at a lower

cost.

• Own the product quality, scalability, security, and performance of applications, systems, and integrations.
• Instill a mindset of curiosity and challenging status quo with a goal to drive faster speed to market at a lower

cost.

• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to enable business value creation, as well as the stability &

scalability of our solutions.

• Supervise technology trends like emerging standards for fresh technology opportunities. Write white papers,

participate in internal/external forums.

• Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency

systems.

• Develop and review all technical sales material & prepare technical task as well as time estimates for

software engineering bids and proposals.
Experience & Skill

• Should have 18+ years of experience of working in product development organizations with a proven

experience of developing enterprise scale products in a highly agile/scrum environment.

• Strong knowledge of Java based technical stack, databases, AWS/Azure cloud, SaaS, design and architectural

patterns and frameworks.

• Strong Java / JEE coding background, and willing to design & code. Technically hands-on.
• Very good knowledge of software development tools, patterns, and processes (Agile principles, SCRUM,

SAFe, V-model)

• Collaborate with architects, product management, and engineering teams to create solutions that increase

the platform's value.

• Create technical specifications, prototypes, and presentations to communicate your ideas.
• Well-versed in emerging industry technologies and trends and the ability to communicate that knowledge to

the team and influence product direction.

• Own progress of the product through the development life cycle, identifying risks and opportunities, and

ensuring visibility to senior leadership.

• Partner with product management to define and refine our product road map, user experience, priorities,

and schedule.

• Extensive experience in designing applications to work with data and processing data at scale.
• Excellent Critical thinking, Analytical, problem solving & Solutioning skills with a customer first mindset.

Great to have:

• Experience with compute cluster, container, orchestration, and Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop,

Kafka et

• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Python, Scala

Professional:

• Prior experience of working as a Engineering Manager is mandatory.
• Ability to lead by example and inspires the team to perform at a very high level, collaborates very well across

different teams.

• Highly motivated and has the ability to convert vague and ill-defined problems into well-defined problems,

take initiative and encourage consensus building in the team.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrable project management, stakeholder management and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to lead in a matrix environment.
• Strong interpersonal and talent management skills, including the ability to identify and develop product

management talent.