Position: Director-Delivery (15-20 years of experience)
Industry and Automation Practice is responsible for working with a wide range of industrial clients to create transformative digital solutions. We develop Industry 4.0 focused solutions that traverse technologies such as: Industrial IoT, Cloud, Reality Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, SAP S/4 Hana, CRM such as Salesforce, Digital Commerce, Custom Application and more.
We are looking for a senior delivery leader in the role of a Director-Delivery, with the responsibility of driving all delivery activities for the Practice. The KPIs for this role would focus on ensuring operational excellence across delivery and engineering. The KPIs would also include business metrics in areas such as revenue, margin, and innovation.
The candidate must demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- The candidate must have experience in delivering 10+ solutions across a cross section of technologies and use cases.
- This role requires experience in managing and creating digital products, software and digital platforms. Hence, experience in creating solutions for smarter factories or connected products or for creating connected customer solutions or digital services for new revenue is essential.
- To succeed in this role, the candidate must have an entrepreneurial mindset to develop new business opportunities for new revenue, working together with globally distributed sales experts and Account owners. Hence, it is essential to have experience in creating responses to customer requests (RFPs or RFIs) as well as creating proactive client reach out for new solutions.
- The role requires an ability to quickly develop an understanding of the client business to identify the AS-IS process or system and thereafter work with the team to create a TO-BE process or system. Hence, experience in conducting client workshops and ability to engage with them to elicit their business requirements and product requirements is essential.
- The candidate must be fluent in waterfall as well as in agile delivery model with experience of working with requirement management tools such as JIRA and Azure DevOps.
- The chosen candidate would regularly create (or review) project plan, develop a work breakdown structure along with associated dependencies. To drive successful project execution, it will be essential to identify project risks, communicate them effectively and take mitigating action. Hence, experience in these areas is essential.
- Demonstrated experience of working with a cross functional team to enable end to end delivery of projects – both in fixed price and time and material model, is essential. Experience in outcome driven model would be an added advantage.
- The role requires coaching and training project managers in the team. Hence, experience as a product owner and scrum master is essential.
- This role would require good knowledge of atleast 1 cloud hyperscaler out of Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
- The role requires working knowledge of CRM platforms such as Salesforce and ERP platforms such as SAP. In addition, the role requires experience of delivering solutions with various components of modern technology stack such as Angular, React, C#, React Native, .NET Core, Javascript, Mongo DB, MySQL and so forth.
- The role also requires an understanding of Microservice Architecture (MSA), and DevOps technologies (CI/CD pipelines - Azure DevOps).
- The candidate must demonstrate an ability to make and effectively communicate decisions. The candidate should know how to disagree, how to address opposition or rejection, how to navigate the conflicts in multi-stakeholder requirement and how to build consensus.
- Our team composition is global and cross functional. Hence, the role requires demonstrated ability to work and collaborate with a cross functional global team consisting of architects, business consultants, visual designers, technologists and presales experts.
- This role will involve high degree of exposure to clients, and multiple internal stakeholders. Hence, good written and verbal communication skills are essential.
- Our clients are spread across various sectors within industrial and manufacturing domain. Hence, experience in delivering digital projects for clients in two or more of the following domains is highly desirable: light engineering industry, machine manufacturers, metals industry, aerospace, building materials, food & beverages, consumer goods, and construction industry.
- This role requires a degree in computer engineering or equivalent. An MBA from a top tier institute would be an advantage.
- The role would be based in Gurugram (Haryana).