Partner Vendor Management:
• Manage relationships with locally-represented India-based offshore service vendors
• Coordinate development activities, quality standards, and deliverables with offshore teams
• Provide technical guidance and ensure knowledge transfer progression between onshore and offshore teams
• Enabling business applications teams to focus on industry and client requirements by taking ownership of back-end applications providing shared services for data interchange, data transformation, document image archives, and data subscriptions.
• Provide interfaces to anti-social forces and MyNumber compliance information.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for senior leadership and key stakeholders, communicating progress, risks, and dependencies related to the middleware portfolio
• Directly lead, mentor, and manage multiple engineering teams (Web, Backend, Platform), fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation
• Define and track performance metrics for the engineering teams, establishing clear goals and expectations and ensuring accountability for the timely delivery of high-quality solutions, using metrics to measure success and drive improvement
• Partner with product management and business stakeholders to translate high-level strategic visions into clear, actionable roadmaps and technical solutions, ensuring alignment with business needs
• Maintain a strong understanding of essential middleware technologies like Tomcat, Pega, and cloud platforms like EC2 and Container platforms, including configuring, managing, and integrating various data interchange platforms like DataStage ETL, Enterprise Service Bus, and HULFT, and troubleshooting and setting up new infrastructure
• Define and execute a forward-looking strategic vision for the middleware engineering team, emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge technologies like AI/ML to drive product enhancements and improve user experiences, particularly within cloud platforms including Tomcat, EC2, container platforms, Pega, DataStage ETL, Message Queue, Enterprise Service Bus, JP1 and HULFT.
• Lead technical research and innovation, spearheading the creation, refinement, and enforcement of development and architectural standards to ensure the middleware technology stack remains sustainable and seamlessly integrates with the broader IT ecosystem
• Direct the design, implementation, and enhancement of application security architectures across various scales and types of applications, collaborating closely with security and infrastructure teams to ensure robust protection against threats like DDoS attacks
• Architect and deliver secure, scalable, and highly available systems infrastructure, including disaster recovery solutions, advising management on application and supporting technology purchases and environment upgrades/modifications