Director, Software Development @ Adobe

As a Director of Software Development, you will provide technical vision and leadership to your teams and mentor and coach them to achieve their full potential. You will foster a culture of agility, excellence, collaboration, customer focus, and ensure that your teams deliver products that meet the highest standards of quality, performance, security, and usability. You will also encourage the adoption of standard processes, modern tools, and agile methodologies across the engineering organization. You will be accountable for the end-to- end delivery of your products, from ideation to deployment, and ensure that they align with the overall business goals and customer needs.

• Lead in a Hands-on manner. Be in the trenches where needed.
• Build high scale and ultra low-latency systems
• Special focus on RD to rethink existing architectures
• Layout a multi-horizon strategy to guide our research and development efforts based on the latest and greatest in software development practises. Iterate on this strategy as the field evolves and new barriers are breached.
• Collaborate with Product Management to bring AI based Assistive experiences to life. Socialize what s possible now or in near future to advise the roadmap.
• Be a link between Adobe s research labs, product management and engineering teams to align and amplify their efforts.
• Hire and manage a team with varied strengths of world-class engineers while being responsible for driving all aspects of product development
• Create and instil a team culture that focuses on sound scientific processes and encourages deep engagement with our customers.
• Handle project scope and risks with data, analytics and creative problem solving

• Technology expertise coupled with business understanding
• Great analytical skills
• Ability to bring thought clarity in engineering design and deliverables in ambiguous and rapidly changing business scenario
• Clear and crisp communications skills and ability to foster partnership with a globally distributed team
• Ability to attract, hire and mentor top class talent
• Great understanding of data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded programming and distributed computing concepts
• Ability to be a self-starter and work closely with cross functional team

• More than 18 years of experience, including at least 10 years in technical roles involving large scale, web- based system development
• Expertise in Java, Data Lake technologies, building and deploying SaaS applications
• Masters or bachelors in computer science or main-stream Engineering