Pennant Technologies

Pennant Technologies is an agile, innovative FinTech company that delivers future ready, easily adaptable and highly configurable products and solutions for global banks and financial services companies. We follow the best software development and Agile practices to deliver successfully, again and again.

We are seeking Associate Vice President, Product Engineering to own and lead our Software product engineering team. This position requires exceptional skills, knowledge, and caliber for what it takes to lead the team responsible for building mission-critical, world class enterprise platform/ applications.

Your responsibilities :

- Build and evangelize short-term and long-term product vision in close collaboration with internal stakeholders in product management, and other engineering teams including Client Services Team.

- Drive key product engineering initiatives & multiple concurrent software development programs by partnering with Client Services and other stakeholders.

- Provide cross-functional project and program management leadership to ensure the successful and predictable delivery of Products and associated services.

- Plan & execute key initiatives and processes that enables efficient product development, strong quality assurance and predictable delivery

- Understanding client requirements and meeting client expectations by assisting product Managers in developing and executing product development strategies.

- Demonstrate a bias towards action and completing projects on time, with a high bar for customer success and quality

- Overseeing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders, keeping all parties coordinated on the progress and deadlines for all projects.

- Report on risks, implement risk reduction plans, report on progress and otherwise provide project support to help ensure high quality, on-time delivery.

- Drive standardization of best practices & effective processes in product development, quality assurance and release management across the engineering team.

- Instill best practices for software development, ensure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on schedule.

- With a passionate, result oriented approach, drive teams to innovate and build robust software, allowing Pennant to maintain and grow its leadership position in this expanding market

- Track and publish the KPI's and overall status of the team(s) to the senior management team (SMT)

- Engage in strategic and operational discussions with the client teams towards strengthening the partnership.

- Engage and partner with technology vendors towards various assessments and POC's to drive the technical roadmap of the Product.

- Experience and ability to manage big teams (50+) is a must.

- Working experience in Banks / Financial organizations or pertaining technology vendors is an added advantage

Skill sets/Experience :

- Deep software engineering and complex program management experience with big teams

- Strong program management skills with ability to independently manage multiple programs and see that all deadlines are met.

- Strong communicator, with excellent leadership & influencing skills and adept at leading/managing cross-functional program.

- Exceptional ability to think in structured terms about process and methodology and to translate into impact on velocity, quality, and efficiency and value team excellence over individual productivity,

- Ability to attract, develop, and grow engineers to create a self-organizing, empowered, and motivated team.

- Strong understanding of IT modernization concepts and architecture including Cloud, Containerization, Microservices and digitization is a must.

- Understanding of Data analytics, AI/ML technologies and concepts.

- Strong understanding and experience in SCRUM and AGILE SDLC models.

- Experience in developing Java based platforms is preferred.

Pedigree :

- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related field

- Over 20+ years of experience in Software Industry preferably with 10 to 15 years of relevant experience in designing and developing scalable and distributed multi-tenant enterprise applications preferably for BFSI vertical

- Technology and Process related Certifications will be an added advantage