Senior Director - Product Development

At FIS, you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team 

The Capital Markets business at FIS is a $3bn high growth segment delivering leading edge solutions to the world’s biggest Investment Banks, Asset Managers & Hedge Funds, Private Capital, Lending, Insurance and Risk Management firms. Capital Markets has three lines of business to support customer demands and meet ever evolving market requirements. These three lines of business are Trading and Asset Services, Treasury & Risk and Lending.

Auto & Leasing are the rapid growing and innovative business unit within FIS, a Fortune 500 company. We deliver FIS Asset Finance solutions to big businesses around the globe, and we are looking for leadership position in India. If you have experience leading teams or business units in multinational environments, coming from FinTech, Banking & Finance, Auto & Leasing Finance, or a similar domain and if you would like to grow further – this could be a job of your dream.

About The Role:

An exciting opportunity for a strong technology and development leader to drive forward our technology and cloud modernization programs, as well as to build and scale a global development organization for Auto and Asset Leasing product & solutions.

What you will be doing:

• You will provide strategic thought leadership to product & development teams and clients

• Build a high performing team by creating a work environment where individuals and teams can achieve peak performance through the attraction, development and engagement of the best and the brightest

• Ensure the necessary people, process and tools are in place to deliver against the product roadmaps of our solutions on time and with high quality.

• Utilize Agile-Scrum processes to develop industry leading software

• Drive continuous improvement within the team to achieve faster turn-around time from concept creation to market

• Collaborate/partner with the broader Cross functional organization to foster an End-to-End seamless delivery and operation of our software services in production and to our client

• Oversees key projects, processes and performance reports, data and analysis

• Keep up to date in technologies for building application services and with evolving standards within FIS. Build awareness of latest trends in technology; look at ways and means of adopting these within the current platform.

What you bring:

• 18+ years of industry experience with 10+ years of experience in a product-based company on technical track

• Significant experience of leading large software teams of 100+ product engineering teams for 5 years or more

• Knowledge of current technology landscape in Capital Markets and Leasing/Lending Domain

• Exceptional analytical skills. Has a strong external focus on customer, competitor, regulatory & marketplace trends.

• Exhibits a passion for the customer, ability to prioritize and retain focus, execute relentlessly, experiment and drive innovation.

• Maintains awareness and expertise with emerging technology trends, practices and approaches such as cloud native, SaaS, DevOps and CI/CD. Applies this experience towards shaping a technology strategy and roadmaps.

• Experience developing complex enterprise grade solutions in .Net, Test driven development, web-based and with modern architectures (microservices, REST, HTML5, etc.). (Optional – Java technology stack)

• Experience with delivery using the public cloud (Azure, AWS, etc.) while taking advantage of the cloud native capabilities (elasticity, scale, PaaS, etc.)

• Proven collaborative approach; openly sharing information and receptive to the ideas of others.

• Creating and cultivating networks of people across a global and matrixed organization

• High level of energy and a personal style that engenders loyalty and trust among team members, at all levels within the organization.

• Build a motivated and successful team and lead it towards common goals.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and carry out assignments that are sensitive in nature.

• Highly articulate communicator who can convey important messages in a clear and compelling manner at all levels of the organization.

• Willingness to travel to meet with customers and global teams.

Building and Managing High Performance Teams

• Superb leadership record having created a positive, highly energized performance climate with clear points of accountability.

•  Known for valuing and supporting diversity.

•  Excellent people and organization leadership skills. Able to exercise seasoned judgment.

•  Effectively coaches and listens to leaders.

•  An ability to initiate and manifest flexibility, adaptability, and creativity.

Driving Positive Change:

•  Able to effectively challenge the status quo and infuse new ideas and innovation

•  Understands the company and business line cultural identity and core strengths, to drive successful change

• Proven record of delivering through a large scale and global services function and business

• Capable of executing short-term (tactical) and long term (strategic) plans

• Setting clear and measurable performance objectives and monitoring progress rigorously, planning and linking action to business priorities

What we Offer you:

• Extensive Health Benefits Program along with the Family Protection Plan

• Best in Class Career Mobility options across the globe

• Multi-Divisional Career Exposures

• Adaptable Home - Office Work Model

• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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