Director – ADMS

Job Description: Director – ADMS (Application Development & Modernization Services)

Position Title: Director – ADMS

Experience: 15–22+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reporting To: VP/Head of Delivery

Role Overview

We are seeking an accomplished and highly skilled Director of ADMS (Application Development & Modernization Services) with deep hands-on technical expertise in Java, Python, Cloud, and DevOps, combined with strong leadership capabilities to manage large-scale delivery teams. The ideal candidate will lead enterprise transformation initiatives, modernize complex application portfolios, drive solution strategy for RFPs, and partner with business stakeholders for end-to-end requirements gathering and solution definition. This role demands strong technical acumen, business consulting ability, and proven experience managing large teams (50+ members) across multi-shore environments.

Key Responsibilities

1. ADMS Strategy & Leadership

• Lead the Application Development & Modernization Services strategy, roadmap, and execution for enterprise customers.
• Own delivery excellence, technical governance, staffing strategy, and operational KPIs across multiple projects and programs.
• Drive modernization initiatives including re-platforming, refactoring, cloud adoption, legacy transformation, and API modernization.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, automation frameworks, and DevOps maturity models across projects.

2. Technical Leadership (Java, Python, Cloud, DevOps)

• Provide hands-on architecture and advisory support for large-scale application ecosystems built on Java and Python.
• Define best practices around microservices, API design, data architecture, security, and distributed systems.
• Architect and guide solutions on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)—compute, containers, serverless, DevOps pipelines, monitoring, and security.
• Drive DevOps automation practices, including CI/CD, IaC, observability, environment provisioning, and release management.
• Conduct architectural reviews, performance tuning, cost optimization, and scalability assessments.

3. Business Engagement, RFPs & Pre-Sales Support

• Lead technical solutioning for RFPs, RFIs, proposals, and bids in the ADMS domain.
• Build solution blueprints, cost models, estimation frameworks, and technical presentations for new opportunities.
• Collaborate with sales, practice teams, and SMEs to define compelling modernization proposals.
• Participate in CXO-level discussions, product demonstrations, due diligence sessions, and client workshops.

4. Business Requirements Analysis & Consulting

• Engage with customer business stakeholders to gather, understand, and structure business requirements.
• Translate business needs into technical architecture, modernization roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Perform business analysis, gap assessment, dependency mapping, and risk analysis.
• Provide thought leadership on digital transformation, application rationalization, and future-state design.

5. Delivery Management & Large Team Leadership

• Manage and mentor large teams of 50+ engineers, architects, scrum teams, and DevOps practitioners.
• Ensure delivery excellence, adherence to SLAs, operational governance, and continuous improvement.
• Build high-performing teams through hiring, coaching, training, and talent development initiatives.
• Implement agile ceremonies, delivery governance models, and program management frameworks.
• Oversee multi-shore teams across US, India, and other global locations.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• 10+ years hands-on experience with Java and Python, including architecture, design, and implementation.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)—migration, design patterns, modernization, and cloud-native architecture.
• Deep understanding of DevOps tools & practices—CI/CD (GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab), IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana), and automation frameworks.
• Experience with API development, microservices, event-driven systems, integration patterns, and distributed architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching strategies, performance optimization, and security best practices.

Business & Consulting Skills

• Proven experience contributing to and leading RFP/RFI responses, solution architecture, and client presentations.
• Strong experience in business requirements gathering, BRD/FRD creation, process mapping, and stakeholder analysis.
• Ability to drive discussions with business and technology leaders to shape modernization strategies.
• Experience delivering transformation programs in complex enterprise environments.

Leadership Skills

• 5+ years in a director-level or senior leadership role managing teams of 50+ members.
• Strong stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and cross-functional leadership.
• Ability to influence senior executives and drive organizational alignment.
• Excellent people management skills—team building, mentoring, performance management.

Soft Skills & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong communication—ability to convey complex technical concepts to executives.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
• High ownership, accountability, and strategic thinking.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage ambiguity, and balance multiple priorities.
• Strong collaboration across business, engineering, sales, and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect, GCP Professional Architect).
• Experience with Agile, SAFe, or scaled delivery models.
• Experience modernizing legacy mainframe applications is a plus.
• Experience in client-facing roles in BFSI, Telecom, Retail, Manufacturing, or Healthcare sectors

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹3,500, ₹4,500,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Work from home

Work Location: Remote