Cognizant Hiring for Assoc Dir Software Engineering Job at Bangalore Full Time

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Director – Product Engineering

Qualification:

Bachelors of Engineering or Technology MBA is preferred

Responsibility:

Market Research:

• ‘ Conduct market research/ to understand and evaluate experience for products under purview.

• Conduct VOC analysis/competitive analysis for the products.

• Assess product against competition.

• Provide recommendations on product portfolio to product management team based on assessment.

Product Vision Strategy and Roadmap:

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Engineering Marketing Sales Service Legal Support) and directly with customers to define design and deliver successful products.

• Define and communicate product vision and strategy for product/product line to maximize revenue generated while ensuring customer success.

• Drive definition of the product roadmap to deliver maximum business value and maximize growth of the user base worldwide.

• Gain confidence and alignment with Engineering Marketing Sales and Legal teams on product vision strategy and roadmap.

• Provide recommendations around PoCs & PoVs based on changes in technology and customer landscape.

Product Planning:

• Provide guidance on product planning.

• Review specifications to analyze prioritization proposed by Product Management teams.

• Engage with Architecture and Engineering groups to determine the technical and functional feasibility.

• Develop / review project plan from requirements through development to QA as well as release plan.

• Conduct risk mitigation planning based on anticipated risks.

• Communicate functional dependencies in terms of release teams SCM teams and Product teams.

Products Requirements:

• Conduct periodic review of requirement traceability from user stories through relevant test cases.

• Work with the product management team in defining and prioritizing product (functional and non functional) requirements.

Product Design and Development:

• Guide and drive architecture based on product requirement /functional requirement.

• Conduct reviews of use cases and mapping to the design/architecture as warranted.

• Set up governance model for monitoring and de risking delivery.

• Manage development and testing of products.

Build and Release Management:

• Drive and monitor communication with cross functional teams (SCM Release Management teams) to ensure appropriate support in terms of release planning and infrastructure planning.

Product Testing:

• Liaise track and close testing cycle with relevant stakeholders.

• Drive and track product testing team works with relevant stakeholders during the requirement analysis test case development with requirement traceability.

• Setup test automation tools wherever applicable.

• Drive guide and monitor complete system integration and testing regression testing of product functionality.

• Certify quality of product for interim Alpha Beta and Final releases of product.

Product Training and Documentation:

• Call out list of all features available for this particular version (release notes).

• Gather workflow changes and call out the required details to provide inputs to product teams.

• Guide relevant teams around development of user manuals and training materials.

Product Sign Offs:

• Seek sign off from Product Sponsor on key deliverables product roadmap release plan product marketing requirements functional specifications architecture user experience product’s Alpha release Beta release Market Rollout and product decommissioning.

Project Management:

• Conduct periodic review including overall program review with critical stakeholders as well as internal reviews (scope review high level design review test strategy review execution review risk review).

• Track staffing plan as well as capacity available.

• Monitor and address infrastructure needs (including software / hardware requirements) as well as capability needs (training requirements) for execution as per plan.

• Periodically track program performance against metrics agreed with data quality metrics group.

Product Line Management:

• Define budget for program/portfolio of products.

• Track costs against budget as well a profitability in terms of cost for projected revenue.

Technology Thought Leadership:

• Identify accelerators and ideas for new product lines / enhancements based on understanding of changing technology landscape and customer landscapes.

• Drive cross product learning in terms of feature cross usability.

• Build awareness and leverage new ideas through to execution.

• Enhance knowledge of development tools continuous integration tools of the teams.

People Management:

• Build a complementary team of product development experts via lateral hiring and training.

• Understand aspirations of associates identify programs and certifications growth areas for associates based on aspirations and project requirements.

• Mentor associates and conduct one on one sessions to coach team members.

• Set goals for team members and monitor performance.

• Conduct performance appraisal for team members.

• Organize team initiatives on a periodic basis.