Job Description
ENABLING THE DIGITAL WORLDOpenText enables the digital world as the global leader in Enterprise Information Management, both on premises and in the cloud. We are committed to being the best place to work for more than 15,000 employees in over 120 locations. What we do, we do well. What we create, we do purposefully to impact the world. If you believe in this and are passionate about directing people towards a better way to work, then let OpenText enable your digital world career.
The Opportunity:
The OpenText Vertica provides a state-of-the-art Big Data Analytics platform that handles petabytes of data. It is a commercially successful, high performance, distributed database. Every industry is finding ways to benefit from data analytics. We continue to engineer our product to be flexible so that it supports all of them. Vertica is a recognized leader in analytics powering some of the worlds most data driven organizations like Uber, Wayfair, Intuit, Cerner, and more. Our columnar, MPP, distributed database delivers unprecedented speed, petabyte scale, with analytics and machine learning functions built into the core
As a Director, Software Engineering you will need to manage product development and extend leadership on medium to large scale products with internal and direct customer impact. Responsible for day-to-day management of Engineering team to ensure technical quality, product quality, and efficient use of resources. Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and within agreed upon quality standards. Work closely with cross-functional teams within OpenText and partner with key stakeholders.
You are great at
- Deliver assigned projects to time, budget and agreed quality standards
- Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations, other delivery teams and Release Management to ensure effective launch and delivery of projects to satisfy business needs
- Lead teams to ensure project delivery success
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, internal and external
- Apply best-practices and coding patterns that ensure world-class solutions that are maintainable, modular, and of high code-quality
- Create a culture that insists on meeting expectations and delivering value
- Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement
- Grow and manage the skills and talent in the team
- Manage People Resource processes related to objectives definitions, regular check-in, assessment and compensation
- Manage communication cross-functionally and escalate promptly as issues arise
- Facilitate regular Steering Committee meetings and present to senior level management
- Take responsibility for ensuring customer satisfaction during project delivery
- Maintain project management documentation including but not limited to project plans, issues, risks, action items, scorecards and project sites.
- Excellent problem solving skills
Requirements
- 20+ years experience in developing and managing core products or business applications
- Strong knowledge in Databases, Business Analytics, Machine Learning, Project / Program Management, & Development
- Experience with Agile Development & global delivery
- Strong design, architecture and coding experience
- Hands on experience in JAVA/J2EE, technologies
- Extensive knowledge on AWS platform and its services like Storage, EKS, Network and deployment.
- Excellent knowledge of Webservices and underlying architecture.
- Strong design principles knowledge and their application.
- Able to handle large-scale and multiple products concurrently
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle process and methodologies
- Entrepreneurial and self-motivated, business oriented
- Strong leadership, people management and mentoring skills
- Goal driven; plans and manages toward achieving goals, anticipates problems and issues and proactively drives their resolution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all levels.
- Skilled in presentations and discussions with business and technical staff
- Experience in working in an international environment involving multiple development sites on various time zones.
- Must be confident, highly motivated and passionate about delivery and customer satisfaction.
Job Classification
Industry: Software Product
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Head - Engineering
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Opentext
Location(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills:
program management
business analytics
dbms
machine learning
design principles
project management
software development
web services
big data analytics
aws stack
software development life cycle
project / program management
java
j2ee
agile
aws