Manager – Engineering

Godrej Capital is a subsidiary of Godrej Industries and is the holding company for Godrej Housing finance & Godrej Finance. With a digital-first approach and a keen focus on customer-centric product innovation, Godrej Capital offers Home Loans, Loan Against Property, Property Loans, Business Loans and is positioned to diversify into other customer segments and launch new products. The company is focused on building a long-term, sustainable retail financial services business in India, anchored by Godrej Group’s 125+year legacy of trust and excellence. Godrej Capital has a special focus on learning and capability development across its employee base and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a guiding principle.

The organization has been consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work™ receiving certifications in 2022 and 2023. As it stands, Godrej Capital holds a spot among India's Top 50 Best Workplaces in BFSI 2023 and is also recognized as one of India’s Great Mid-Size Workplaces 2023. Beyond that, it has also had the honor of being named the Best Organization for Women by The Economic Times in both 2022 and 2023, and the Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place to Work in 2022 and in 2023.

Function

Information Technology

Job Purpose

The role incumbent will be responsible for independently managing and driving key technology projects relating to Data Management & Governance, business change requests and technology initiatives for key systems. Create Data Technology Road Map that enables solid enterprise data strategy. Incumbent shall be self-driven and will work independently with stakeholders across departments. The incumbent will also be owning technology innovations, performance improvements and compliance activities.

Role

- Understand the business requirement & challenges and convert them into solution design and ensure implementation
- Knowledge of data warehousing and ETL methodology making use of cloud-based technologies like AWS and ONPREM technologies like YARN, Spark and Pyspark
- Strong experience in building modern data warehouse including structured and unstructured data
- Experience in data quality identification and implementation of data governance principles
- Ensure and publish progress of key projects periodically.
- Knowledge of end-to-end loan origination, maintenance, and servicing, with loan accounting, recon and related processes
- Coordinate with the vendors and in house teams for prioritization, planning, delivery, and deployment
- Perform sanity testing, issue reporting and tracking.
- Handle audit and compliance activities for the systems.
- Track agreed SLAs with vendors, process vendor invoices.
- Identify gaps and opportunities for increasing process and operational efficiency with measurable outcomes.

Qualification & experience

- Years of experience: 7-10 years of experience
- Good experience in of Application Management, LOS, LMS, Data Management, AWS, Kafka, Databases like Postgres, Oracle, Snowflake. Good to have, not mandatory – MBA

Essential skills

- Solution Architect with ability to independently manage and execute data projects end to end, requirement analysis, mapping requirements to system solutioning, vendor management. analysis of issues and providing resolutions.
- Exposure to lending systems and domain will be an advantage
- Technology skills - Databases, API, client server architecture

Ideal candidate (in terms of current role/ organization/ industry)

- An individual inclined to learn and explore new technologies and utilise the best out of the resources in hand.
- Able to influence and work in a collaborative manner
- Preferably from Banking/Financial services industry