Senior Manager, IT Development

Randstad; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad is seeking an experienced senior engineering leader in Pune to drive delivery of software solutions across multiple domains. You will lead a team of professionals, coordinate code reviews and deployments, and oversee QA and governance processes to ensure quality and on-time delivery.

Ideal candidates will have deep understanding of software development lifecycles, budget management, and a track record of building high-performing teams in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Leadership and people management skills for teams of junior to senior engineers.
• Understanding of software development life cycle and QA processes.
• Budgeting, performance metrics and governance responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of professionals across multiple levels to deliver development plans.
• Coordinate code reviews, deployments, and production issue resolution with the development team.
• Oversee design, development, testing, operation, delivery and maintenance of software solutions across domains.
• Monitor QA activities, defect metrics, root cause analysis and process improvements.
• Foster a development culture that emphasizes innovation, quality, predictability and reliability with measurable metrics.

Job description

Every year, we help hundreds of thousands of people find rewarding jobs in the ever-changing world of work. We understand the importance of a job in peoples lifes and we want to help them find work that feels good. And we'll help them continue to grow as their needs and ambitions change.

At Randstad, our value comes from our people and that is why we put them first. We are proud of our learning culture and career architecture framework that encourages ours team to develop both personally and professionally. We believe that talent grows when presented with opportunity and this is why we encourage our people to think beyond their role. We have created a culture that enables talent to flourish, encouraging entrepreneurship, fostering team spirit, and continually building mutual trust.

• Manages a team of direct junior, intermediate and fully competent professionals, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the development plan and deliver excellence, whilst providing performance and compensation management, technical development and coaching
• Coordinates regular code reviews, deployment activities, and addresses production issues with the development team
• Supervises the design, development, testing, operation, delivery and maintenance of a suite of software solutions or infrastructure within multiple areas to satisfy user requirements
• Manages software quality functions and monitors all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifies areas of improvement. Implements steps required to improve the process
• Drives a development culture that supports innovation and creativity while delivering high quality products with predictability and reliability by regularly monitoring team's quality metrics (e.g. defect rates), innovation metrics (e.g. prototypes developed) and predictability metrics (e.g. on-time delivery rates), and using this as input for feedback sessions, target setting and team planning
• Develops the identification of quality risks based on high level solution architecture and is accountable for product governance. Translates function policies into measurable team goals and conducts regular risk assessments

• In-depth understanding of concepts and principles in own discipline and a good knowledge of these elements in related disciplines
• Provides management and direction to professional employees may occasionally manage supervisors or managers
• Has accountability for the budget/P&L, performance and results of a team or multiple diverse teams
• Executes business plans and contributes to the development of team / business area strategy
• Addresses issues with impact beyond own team based on knowledge of related disciplines; may lead formulation and monitoring of policy and professional standards
• Makes decisions that impact the results of a business area -including the support, prioritization, and funding of projects, products, services and/or technologies