Senior Director - JD
Senior Director - JD
1. JOB DETAILS:
Position Title: Senior Director - Product Engineering
Reporting To: Chief Technology & Information Officer
Department: Technology
Location: Bangalore
2. Organizational Overview:
Northern Arc Capital Limited, established in 2008 is a digital finance company that provides access to debt
for under-banked individuals and businesses in India. Through a combination of capital, products,
partnerships and technology, Northern Arc and its subsidiaries have created a platform that connects
millions of borrowers to mainstream debt investors. Northern Arc Capital operates across multiple asset
classes, thus providing access to a diverse set of debt opportunities to sectors, such as microfinance, small
business loans, affordable housing finance, vehicle finance, agricultural finance, consumer finance, mid-
market corporate finance and others.
Since inception, Northern Arc has enabled over USD 11 billion of financing to over 200 partner organizations
through 140 reputed domestic and global investors. The company also has a fund management subsidiary,
Northern Arc Investment Managers, that manages multiple Alternate Investment Funds. In a short span of
five years, the entity has already seven funds under its management with a cumulative AUM of USD 200
million and has gained recognition for its product structuring.
3. JOB OBJECTIVE:
4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Description
• End to end ownership of product delivery ensuring code quality, system scalability and high
availability.
• Build technically strong engineering team operating on agile principles.
• Setup processes to enhance developer productivity and product delivery predictability.
• Work with the business users for defining the project scope and timelines.
• Manage change management and expectations with various stakeholders.
• Work with Architects, Developers, Quality Engineers, Application Support, Vendors and Dev Ops
teams to ensure all planning from Design, Infrastructure, Development to Production and Post-
Production are covered.
• Formulate and execute project plans and manage cross-functional teams.
• Work with Cloud Providers to get the underlying technology Infrastructure ready.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are crucial for this position, as the job requires
heavy interaction with business, other IT groups and 3rd parties on an ongoing basis.
• Self-motivated, pro-active individual, comfortable working in fast paced environment, ability to
move the needle despite ambiguous inputs.
• Ability to drive a project from concept to delivery.
• Prior experience in working closely with technical and business teams to deliver quality software
implementations.
• Solid knowledge of software development life cycles.
• Excellent project management experience: planning, scheduling, project communication, issue
resolution, change management, and risk management.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Ability to manage cross functional teams consisting of developers, vendors, and business users.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Very detail oriented and organized with a strong discipline of adhering to standards.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and drive issues to resolution.
• Ability to work independently with little or no supervision while maintaining a high level of
efficiency.
• Must be flexible and quick to adapt to sudden changes and issues.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Self-starter with a strong sense of personal responsibility and ownership.