KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS :
- Provide strategic leadership for IT Products domain, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term goals.
- Inspire, empower, and develop teams across locations, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Drive the successful delivery of large-scale software products and programs, meeting agreed quality, budget, and timeline objectives.
- Partner closely with Product Managers and Cluster Managers to shape product strategy, set priorities, and accelerate execution.
- Act as a trusted liaison to senior stakeholders, ensuring transparency, clarity of scope, and effective resource allocation.
- Establish and champion standards for operational excellence, including risk management, governance, and measurable KPIs.
- Leverage technology and architecture as key enablers (e.g., cloud, automation, DevOps) to enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Promote process innovation and agile ways of working to reduce time-to-market and increase value delivery.
- Build and sustain a high-performing, motivated team of Product Managers and IT professionals.
BEHAVIOURS & APPROACH :
Proven leadership skills with the ability to inspire, mentor, and guide diverse teams across multiple locations.Strong strategic and operational mindset, balancing long-term vision with execution excellence.Flexible and adaptable, while maintaining a high degree of execution quality.Strong analytical and decision-making abilities, with a track record of solving complex challenges and driving outcomes.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to build trusted relationships at all organizational levels and across regions.Demonstrated ability to drive IT transformation while ensuring operational excellence and sustainable delivery.WORK EXPERIENCE :
Extensive experience in managing and delivering large-scale, business-critical software systems in complex organizations.A solid background with 10+ years in IT software development.At least 4 years of proven leadership experience in managing cross-location teams and delivering large-scale software systems.Strong foundation in modern software engineering and architecture practices.Hands-on exposure to :o Java / J2EE and Microservices architectures
o Event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka)
o Relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL)
o Domain Driven Design (DDD)
Proficiency in Agile ways of working (e.g., Scrum, SAFe, or similar frameworks) and ability to embed them at scale.Familiarity with program / project management practices (e.g., PMP, Prince2).Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) as a driver for scalability, resilience, and modernization.Industry knowledge in Shipping or Logistics (Preferred).Experience in product transformation from legacy (e.g., mainframe) to modern cloud-based architectures (Preferred).EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS :
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, economics, Engineering, or comparable discipline.Skills Required
Java, J2ee Technologies, Micro Services, Kafka, Sql Server My Sql