Product Development & Management - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Full Time
About PDI For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud-based solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites.
Job Summary Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you insist on the highest standards for the software your team develops? Are you a progressive software engineer, an advocate of agile development practices, and a proponent of continuous improvement? If this is you, then join and energetic team of engineers building next generation of solutions at PDI! As an engineering leader, you will lead Agile engineering resources & provide guidance from inception through release of major & point product releases, including ongoing maintenance. You will be working closely with your product managers, product owners, engineering leaders, your team and other stakeholders. You will be leading developers, quality engineers and partnering with CloudOps, TechOps, UX Design other cross-functional functional groups to evolve our solutions while continuing to improve your teams’ adoption of SDLC processes, CI/CD integration, code quality & automation test coverage. Responsibilities
Lead an organization of 4-20 software engineers globally to efficiently produce high quality deliverables
Manage team leads, direct reports or a mix of both
Manage several deliverables for a product line on time, on scope and on quality
Instrument your processes, produce scorecards of progress regularly and establish a regular cadence of operational reviews with your management including quality metrics, coding efficiencies, improvements, challenges, remediation needs
Correlate, report, and drive the adoption of Process/Continuous Improvement initiatives
Recruit & provide leadership, coaching & career planning for engineering talent
Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
Provide architectural guidance to your teams towards our PDI Cloud & Platform strategy
Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product development practices
Participate in the design & implementation of production cloud grade services supporting high availability
Actively talent manage your team providing career planning & performance improvement activities when needed
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
6+ years of experience leading software engineers for product development