Director

DIRECTOR ENGINEERING

Happiest Minds TechnologiesVisit website ↗·Posted 1 month ago

Location

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Experience

8+ years

Required Skills

ReactPythonJavaAWSSQLScrum

About the Role

• Job Intro: The Engineering team is looking to help manage the India engineering team consisting of data engineers, application engineers, and QA engineers.

• Job Duties and Responsibilities:
We are looking for an engineering leader to lead our engineering team in India. You will work in a fast-paced environment where you will get an opportunity to contribute to the entire scope of the engineering team

You will get an opportunity to -

?      Make a significant impact in the life sciences space by leading a critical engineering function and building a high-efficiency offshore team

?      Lead a team of 20. software development engineers and QA engineers

?      Contribute to building products and solutions that span across data engineering and SAAS applications

?      Develop products and solutions using technologies like DataBricks, Pyspark, Python, Java, React, RDS, Redshift, SQL, AWS services

?      Understand and translate Verana Health?s business needs into engineering solutions

?      Partner with cross-functional stakeholder including Product managers, Architects, Data Quality engineers, Application and Quantitative Science end users to deliver products

?      Instill a culture of Transparency, Accountability, and Commitment (say-do Ratio) within the India engineering organization

• Basic Requirements:
?      Experience leading larger engineering teams

?      Proven technical and managerial leadership in either data engineering or SAAS applications is a must

?      Around 15 years of work experience in building scalable and robust engineering solutions

?      At least 8 years of experience managing software engineers

?      Demonstrated ownership, and accountability

?      Experience participating in scrum teams

?      Exceptional collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively in a global, matrixed organization, working alongside US-based engineering leadership to ensure timely and high-quality delivery

?      Be able to lead and oversee multiple projects at the same time

?      Proven track record developing talent within organizations

?      Be comfortable with doing fair and candid performance reviews and hold individuals accountable

?      Strong business sense to gather priorities and be strategic in decision making

?      Passion towards healthcare and improving patient outcomes

?      Demonstrate analytical thinking with strong problem solving skills

?      Stay on top of emerging technologies and possess willingness to learn

• Bonus Experience

(optional)

? Past experiences organizing work in scrum teams

? Healthcare experience

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Ideal Candidate

A technical director who has scaled engineering teams of 15+ from 5-8 years of management experience, with deep hands-on expertise in either data engineering (Spark, Python, Databricks) or SaaS platforms (React, Java, AWS).

Estimated Salary Range(medium confidence)

₹20 L – ₹32 L per year

Likely Interview Questions

1.Walk us through a time you scaled an engineering team from 10 to 20+ people—what did you get right and what would you do differently in a distributed India-based setup?
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