RandD Leader Bengaluru

The Company

Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And were just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what weve started: Improving human health.

We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. Weve already changed millions of lives and were ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. Well get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though weve come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Oversees and manages R&D’s product development activities within India.
• Works closely with R&D functional leaders and managers in support of R&Ds product development roadmap and in compliance with regulatory, security and privacy policy requirements.
• Ensures R&D development practices (Agile) and processes are established and adhered to.
• Operates as an escalation to engineering teams helping to troubleshoot, eliminate inefficiencies and enable problem solving where needed.
• Use data to inform decisions about products, technology, and teams. 
• Helps to build a high-performance engineering capabilities and culture including helping functional leaders hire top technical talent 
• Will report to the Chief Technology Officer as well as part of the Country Leadership Team; fostering collaboration and ensuring operational effectiveness.
  
  

• B.S. (Software Development degree highly preferred)
• 15+ years of industry (Software) experience, 9+ years of successful management experience in relevant industry.
  
  

• Track record of delivering on strategic & technical goals, including driving technical strategy via a strong technical leadership team 
• Experience as a champion of Agile Software Development philosophies and successfully operating in an Agile-led software development processes
• Experienced communicator/presenter of technical information with a quality focus to internal as well as external partners
• Familiarity using relevant, modern, software test tools and equipment 
• Android and iOS app development experience
• Understanding of cloud-based client/server backend mobile apps and systems
• Programming Languages exposure, with hands-on-keyboard direct experience on many: Swift, Kotlin, Objective C, Java, C, maybe others
• Mobile App Architecture understanding
• Exposure to app design patterns: MVC (model view controller), MVVM (model view viewmodel), MVP (model view presenter)
• Demonstrated experience in supporting the development and implementation of supporting organizational vision and strategy
• Proven business acumen and business management
• Experience in leading business improvement projects with a process or continuous improvement mindset
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills as a consensus builder to be able to build solid, effective working relationships with others
• Able to constructively work in a very demanding performance-oriented work environment with high workloads and deadlines
• Ability to inspire, motivate and lead teams
• Able to interact effectively with all levels of management
• Able to recognize and attend to important details with accuracy and efficiency
• Able to serve as a resource to others in the resolution of complex problems and issues
• Able to work independently with minimum supervision
• Able to travel as necessary