Senior Manager - Engineering (Special Projects)

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities Special projects, CEO s office@ HDFC Life HDFC Life has continuously innovated with a futuristic mindset and led the industry in this area. One of the mandates of the team (us!), rolling into the CEO s office, is to work on cutting edge ideas in the area of life insurance. We are responsible for conceptualizing new ideas through consumer research and market intelligence, and also testing these ideas through an iterative pilot, feedback, repeat loop. We are (thankfully) empowered individuals who like to think of ourselves as idea owners , with the ability to think differently, challenge the status quo and with a bias for action. If you are obsessed about technology and taking a hands-on approach to implementing tech strategy, passionate about building innovative solutions to challenging problems and thrive in a collaborative work environment, then do reach out to us. This role will give you a high degree of freedom and exposure to drive engineering advancements along with a fair amount of accountability. Education:BTech/MTech from a tier 1 schoolExperience:6-8 years of engineering experience (B2C products/platforms, start-ups, tech enabled businesses)Location: Mumbai What will you do

• Envision the tech stack for a set of new ideas (most of them not cast in stone) and define the technology roadmap, keeping in mind, business goals, scalability and reliability considerations
• Understand business needs for defining engineering and product building requirements
• Manage technical parts and determine the right technology solutions (upgrade and hosting decisions, code build and deployment)for our new applications/software projects (from inception to launch)
• Be responsible for backend, frontend, infrastructure, architecture, scalability and server-side engineering
• Build, manage and lead the development and maintenance team (in house/outsourced) and ensure delivery of project using agile technologies
• Monitor performance of individual contributors (engineers) and help manage their professional development
• Collaborate with other team members and functions(e.g., marketing, product, design etc.) to roll out new systems, integrate existing systems and implement ongoing process improvements to the current systems
• Drive resolution to conflicts or remove barriers for the product and engineering teams
• Set and manage expectations, communicate and execute goals within timelines

What are we looking for:Technical skill requirements:

• Expertise in full stack architecture technologies (back end, front end, DevOps)and cloud-based environment
• Expertise in selection, successful implementation and rapid adoption of new technologies (e.g., decision between low code / no code and custom code)
• Proven record of leading software developers and DevOps resources (inhouse / outsourced)
• Understanding of data architecture and methods of ingestion, storage, extraction and maintenance of data

Attitude / behavioural requirements:

• Self-starter attitude; curiosity and passion to take on challenges and deliver results with minimum direction
• Bias for action (knowing when to trade off perfection for timing; getting things done)
• Ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment
• Out of the box thinking, clarity in thought (great to have wacky ideas, but you should be clear of your wacky ideas)

Current Tech Stack at HDFC Life:

• Frontend: React, Progressive Web Application (PWA) with Flutter for mobile
• Backend: Python (Flask), NodeJS, OBIEE / Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Databases: Oracle 11g / 19c, DynamoDB, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Redshift
• Infrastructure:
• o On-premises: Oracle Exadata X3-2 Qtr rack (EDW)
• o AWS Cloud: ECS, S3, Lambda functions, Athena, Elasticsearch Service, Database Migration Service (DMS), EMR, Karka(EC2), Nifi(EC2), API Gateway, Kinesis Streams, Kinesis Firehose
• DevOps: IAM, KMS, SNS, Cloudwatch
• CI / CD pipeline: jenkins, gitlab, ansible, artifactory, Docker, CloudFormation
• Reporting: Qlik Sens

Note: Please evaluate the current tech stack and suggest what changes you would make (and why) if you were to build it from scratch ,

Keyskills :
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