We are looking for Director in Software Engineering to join our technology team at Clarivate. The role involves supporting and managing the delivery needs of Clarivate’s LSH Group Commercial Technology teams, by helping define and deliver the Continuous Improvement opportunities and best in practice software development processes.
The successful candidate needs to be from a software development background with having a strong delivery focus supported by demonstrable platform scale software delivery of consumer facing applications built and delivered using cloud native principles along with AI.
About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments :
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Project Execution
- Provide strategic direction and leadership to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
- Develop and execute the technology roadmap, aligning it with the company's overarching strategic goals and objectives.
- Working with product owners, agile delivery teams, quality team, DevOps team at both technical and non-technical level to ensure a consistent and maintainable delivery process.
- Helping to define the technology stack of choice, including understanding which cloud solutions provide best choice for specific products. Closely interact with central architecture teams to adhere to governance, tech choices and other toolset optimization possibilities.
- Data Architecture and Governance :
- Help define and maintain a robust data architecture that ensures the collection, storage, and analysis of Data adhering to industry best practices and data privacy regulations.
- Innovation and Research :
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends in Cloud, data analytics, and healthcare.
- Drive research and development initiatives to create cutting-edge solutions.
- Leverage AI to improve outcomes and experiment with AI to build product usecases
People Management & Mentoring
Team Management :Mentor, and manage a high-performing technology team, providing guidance and professional development opportunities to team members.Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth within the technology department.Budget Management :Estimate and manage the AWS costs and budget, ensuring efficient AWS resource utilization.Handle performance reviews, career development, and hiring of technical talent.Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team culture.Provide coaching and promote professional development of individual contributors.Agile & Product Collaboration
Collaborate with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to ensure technology initiatives align with business goals and client needs in the context of work.Drive Agile practices such as stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, delivery management and solution analysts to gather and refine requirements.Manage resource planning, prioritization, and delivery roadmap across teams.Maintain strong communication with leadership and provide timely status updates.Required Skills and Experience
Education & Experience
Bachelor / master's degree in computer science, Data Science, Information Technology or a related field.At least 7-10 years in technology leadership roles preferably within the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry.Expert in Cloud based technologies like AWS.Strong pedigree in data architectureDeep understanding of software product development – a successful track record of leading the successful delivery of projects using agile techniques.Experienced in effectively facilitating retrospectives, brainstorming, iteration planning meetings and daily stand-ups.Team player to be able to support the Technology Leadership team to drive technology strategy, through Continuous Improvement.Technical Skills
Strong experience working with Java, Angular, or Python. Extensive experience in building scalable RESTful APIs and microservices.Frontend : Angular (latest versions), HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.Databases : PostgreSQL, Snowflake, StarRocks (OLAP), Transact-SQL.Microservices & APIs : REST API design, JSON, Swagger / OpenAPI, distributed systems architecture.Cloud & DevOps : AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), Docker, Jenkins, CI / CD pipelines, Git.Tools : VS Code, PyCharm, JIRA, GitHub, Linux / Shell scripting, Agile development tools.Architecture : Microservices, event-driven and asynchronous systems, MVC, design principles (SOLID, DRY), secure and scalable cloud-native applications.Preferred / Desirable Skills
Experience with Databricks, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch.Exposure to data analytics, ETL pipelines, and data modeling.Handling Large scale systems with Big Data.AWS Cost managementExposure to performance tuningSoft Skills
Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities, with experience leading engineering teams.Strong communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.Self-driven and proactive with a high degree of ownership and accountability.Adaptable to fast-paced, dynamic work environments.Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivering quality outcomes.What product will you be developing?
You will be working as part of LSH and specifically as part of Commercialization suite of products.
About the Team
You will be part of Commercial technology having a strength of 100+ managing a set of products / portfolio ensuring high quality delivery. The team is located out of India and US.
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