Vice President - Product Engineering

Job Title: VP – Product Engineering

Location: Hybrid – Chennai/Bangalore/Hyderabad/Mumbai/Pune

About the Job:

A Vice President of Product Engineering plays strategic leadership role in driving the vision, development, and delivery of technology products. This role bridges the gap between business goals and engineering execution, ensuring that products are innovative, scalable, and aligned with market demands.

What will you do:

• Ensure high-quality deliveries for multiple products concurrently as per agreed timelines and quality.
• Proactively monitor and track multiple projects with a focus to mitigate potential risks.
• Accountable for the implementation of technical strategy and architectural vision for the organizations software product development and/or engineering functions.
• Identify parts of solutions ready for “productization”. Support design, development, and adoption of products.
• Support development and execution of product strategy.
• Oversee, review, and implement the appropriate Governance & escalation model for all the products/programs.
• Focus on the service delivery improvement initiatives along with respective delivery.
• People management & stakeholder management within the organization and clients.
• Client Management.
• Adhere to clients- processes and metrics of performance and quality parameters.
• Implement new product development strategies to complement existing service offerings.
• Establish and maintain a blended iterative SDLC and Product Development methodologies to achieve a consistent approach to project management.
• Work to solve the problems articulated by product management or other teams and ensure that resulting software products meet the organizations standards of quality and performance.
• Ensure that high standards of reliability, quality, usability, and measurement are adhered throughout each phase of product development.
• Evaluate technical feasibility, design optimization, and production issues.
• Resolve the bottlenecks with the support teams.
• Identify opportunities for reusability across Products and Programs
• Partner with the global product team to build implementation guides and ensure its adherence to projects.
• Partner with development COE on best practices and standards. Accountable for the implementation of those standards
• Own the technical solution in RFPs/RFI response process.
  
  

• Program Delivery leader with 20+ years of experience in the software industry, preferably from the Healthcare Domain
• Agile leader. Hands on people management. Be the coach and leader for the team and delivery. Flexible travel domestically and internationally.
• Passion to conceive, design and implement innovative products.
• Solve delivery / solutions / product integration problems of the product.
• Product delivery management experience, preferably large engagements
• Manage Delivery excellence parameters quality, productivity, estimation and agile.
• Ensure high utilization, and healthy profit margins.
• Identify potential risks and issues in product implementation, services, and solutions.
• Usage of appropriate tools to communicate ideas/creative solutions.
• Good Resource / Stakeholder Management
  
  

• Should be from BE/B.Tech background.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or a related area, or equivalent experience, desired.
  
  

• End to end program software delivery life cycle.
• Project planning and progress monitoring
• Agile methodology and Engineering principles for application delivery.
• Program Estimation, risk assessment, SDLC metrics.
• Budgeting and resourcing.
• Stakeholder management
• Onsite and offshore model
  
  

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Leader with an attitude of self-starter with excellent people skills.
• Effective time and project management.
• Analytical thinker and a great team player. Attention to detail is a must.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal & problem-solving skills.