Project Director - Product Development

JDA Software; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Yonder in Hyderabad is seeking a senior engineering leader to head the Returns Development team. You will mentor engineers, drive delivery, and align engineering work with product strategy and customer outcomes.

You will guide architecture for scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based SaaS solutions, partner with product, UX, and operations, and drive Agile practices across multiple squads.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on delivery.
• Proven leadership of enterprise SaaS or cloud-native apps.
• Strong architecture and DevOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team and own delivery for Returns Development.
• Collaborate with product, UX, cloud operations, Support, and other teams to meet roadmap commitments.
• Drive Agile practices, architecture decisions, testing, and operational readiness across services.

Job description

Scope

Lead a team of software engineers within the Returns Development organization, providing technical direction, people leadership, execution discipline, and coaching. Partner closely with Product Management, UX, Cloud Operations, Support, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality returns capabilities aligned to roadmap commitments and customer outcomes. Drive enterprise engineering practices that improve quality, scalability, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and operational readiness across services and applications.

What you'll do

Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team, creating clarity of priorities, accountability, and growth opportunities. Own delivery execution for assigned Returns Development roadmap commitments, ensuring predictable planning, high-quality delivery, and transparent communication of progress, risks, and dependencies. Provide technical leadership in design and implementation discussions, helping the team make sound architectural decisions for scalable, performant, secure, and maintainable solutions. Partner with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities, customer needs, and business outcomes into well-defined engineering plans and releases. Drive Agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, execution tracking, retrospectives, and continuous improvement. Improve engineering excellence through code quality, automated testing, CI/CD practices, observability, operational readiness, defect reduction, and root cause analysis. Manage cross-functional dependencies with adjacent product, platform, cloud, support, and implementation teams to ensure successful end-to-end solution delivery. Support customer escalations and production issues by ensuring timely technical investigation, clear communication, and durable corrective actions. Build team capability through hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning. Use data, KPIs, and engineering metrics to assess team health, delivery performance, quality trends, and opportunities for improvement.

What we are looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 15+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on experience building solutions for complex problems. Proven experience leading delivery of enterprise-grade SaaS, cloud-hosted, or cloud-native applications at scale. Strong technical foundation with the ability to guide architecture, collaborate on design, and troubleshoot delivery decisions; prior hands-on software development experience is required. Experience with microservices, APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and modern DevOps practices. Demonstrated ability to lead Agile teams and manage planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communication. Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, hiring, and developing engineering talent. Quality-first mindset with experience using engineering metrics, production insights, and root cause analysis to improve product and team outcomes. Ability to work effectively with global, cross-functional teams and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Supply chain, warehouse, returns, inventory, commerce, or logistics domain experience is preferred.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success - and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

A Culture, Not just a Company

Our culture is built on collaboration, respect and having fun whenever possible. This along with ensuring we live our Core Values, enables us to learn, grow, create customer value, and manage the well-being of our collective ecosystem of partners, customers and associates alike. We rise each day with an unwavering commitment to lifelong learning, collaborating with respect, and operating with integrity.

What do we do?

Blue Yonder is the AI company for supply chain. As the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation, Blue Yonder offers a unified, AI-driven platform and multi-tier network that empowers businesses to operate sustainably, scale profitably, and delight their customers - all at machine speed. A pioneer in applying AI solutions to the most complicated supply chain challenges, Blue Yonder's modern innovations and unmatched industry expertise help more than 3,000 retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers confidently navigate supply chain complexity and disruption. \"Blue Yonder\" is a trademark or registered trademark of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name \"Blue Yonder\" is a trademark and/or property of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. Blue Yonder, Inc. - Administrative Office 15059 N Scottsdale Rd Suite 350 Scottsdale, AZ 85254-2666