Unit Manager - Digital Platforms & Consumer Technology/Senior Unit Manager - Digital Platforms & Consumer Technology

Location Name: Pune Corporate Office - Mantri
Job Purpose
Bajaj Finserv Web is a critical component of the company’s omnipresence strategy. You will be working with India’s largest NBFC’s web technology stack, encompassing over 40 business lines and 230+ features, with nearly 500 million traffic and managing over 30,000 webpages.
It is an integrated platform offering a portfolio of products covering payments, cards, wallets, loans, deposits, mutual funds, and loans on lifestyle products, ranging from consumer durables to home furnishings.
The software Development Manager (SDM) will help build new features on a scalable, robust web platform, conduct code reviews and improve code quality by being hands-on and suggesting best practices and SOPs with AEM, Node JS and Solid JS tech stack
Duties And Responsibilities
Designing Technology Systems
Analyze Business Requirements: Conduct thorough analysis of business needs and translate them into detailed technical specifications.
Create System Blueprints: Develop comprehensive system blueprints and diagrams to visualize the architecture and structure of IT systems.
Select Technologies: Choose appropriate technologies, platforms, and frameworks that support the desired functionalities, scalability, and future growth of the system ad get higher manager management buy-in.
Documentation: documenting every single component covering its functional, technical and business aspect and ensuing that will be always updated.
Managing Implementation
Collaborate with Development Teams: Work closely with SDM and development teams to ensure the design is executed successfully.
Provide Guidance: Offer continuous guidance and direction to developers throughout the implementation process to ensure adherence to the design.
Monitor Progress: Keep track of the implementation progress, addressing any issues or deviations from the design plan promptly to keep the project on track.
Coordinating with Stakeholders
Effective Communication: Act as the primary liaison between technical teams and stakeholders, including business leaders and project managers, to gather requirements and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Present Technical Proposals: Clearly present technical proposals and solutions to stakeholders in an understandable manner.
Facilitate Discussions: Lead discussions and negotiations to resolve conflicts or discrepancies between different stakeholders' expectations.
Ensuring System Reliability and Performance
Conduct Testing and QA: Perform thorough testing and quality assurance procedures to identify and address any issues or vulnerabilities in the system.
Implement Best Practices: Apply best practices for system optimization, scalability, and fault tolerance to ensure high performance and reliability.
Monitor Performance: Continuously monitor system performance metrics and implement corrective actions as needed to maintain optimal performance.
Providing Technical Leadership
Mentor and Coach: Mentor and coach team members to enhance their technical skills and capabilities.
Set Standards: Establish technical standards and best practices for development and architecture within the organization.
Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a subject matter expert on technology trends, emerging tools, and industry best practices, providing insights and guidance to the team.
Continuous Improvement and Innovation
Stay Updated: Keep abreast of the latest technological advancements and evaluate their potential impact on the organization.
Identify Opportunities: Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and efficiency gains within the technology landscape.
Lead Innovation Initiatives: Lead initiatives to pilot new technologies or methodologies, asses
Major Challenges
Keeping Up with Technological Advancements
Rapid Changes: Technology evolves quickly, and staying updated with the latest trends, tools, and best practices can be challenging.
Continuous Learning: Constantly acquiring new skills and knowledge to remain relevant and effective in the role.
Alert and Monitoring: system/process should in place to monitor the each indusial event as KPI and ensuing all KPI in place and working.
Balancing Innovation with Practicality
Risk Management: Introducing new technologies and methodologies while ensuring they are practical and beneficial for the organization.
Feasibility: Assessing the feasibility of innovative solutions and balancing them with existing systems and constraints.
Managing Stakeholder Expectations
Communication: Effectively communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Alignment: Ensuring that technical solutions align with business goals and managing differing expectations among stakeholders.
Ensuring System Reliability and Performance
Scalability: Designing systems that can scale efficiently as the organization grows.
Performance Optimization: Continuously monitoring and optimizing system performance to meet reliability and performance standards.
Handling Security Concerns
Data Protection: Implementing robust security measures to protect sensitive data from breaches and cyber-attacks and comply with information security guideline and adhering them into daily execution behavior.
Compliance: Ensuring systems comply with relevant regulations and standards and comply with enterprise compliance policies and adhering them into daily execution of team.
Enterprise network and Cloud: must ensure reliable connectivity between on-premises systems and cloud services, address security concerns to protect data, and integrate legacy systems with modern cloud solutions. They manage performance across hybrid environments, ensure compliance with regulations, control unpredictable cloud costs, and bridge skill gaps within the team. Additionally, they must maintain comprehensive monitoring and observability to promptly detect and resolve issues, ensuring smooth operations and successful project outcomes.
Resource Constraints
Budget Limitations: Working within budget constraints while trying to implement high-quality solutions. Close coordination with Budget (FM) team and tracking daily bases.
Talent Shortage: Finding and retaining skilled team members to execute complex projects.
Vendor Resource Management: managing the vendor resource quality, delivery, adaptation and availability aspect and monthly basis updating to the management and vendor.
Integration with Legacy Systems
Compatibility: Ensuring new systems are compatible with existing legacy systems.
Migration: Managing the migration of data and functionalities from old systems to new ones without disrupting operations.
Required Qualifications And Experience
Qualifications
Tech – Computer Science and Engineering
Work Experience
Should have 7-8 years of API development experience & least 3+ years of experience on technical architect involving Code java, Spring boot, Maven, Gradle, Queuing, DevOps, API, Micro-services and design pattern, BDD, unit cases, SonarQube.
Understand and troubleshoot technology problems and offer solutions
Understand the technology infrastructure and Application architecture end to end
Code review for the source code delivered by team
Understand the business requirements and deliver it through outsourced team
Support/lead new technology initiatives and related technology deliveries
Take part in evaluation of new products, POC, Time bound R&D and solution deliveries
Manage teams (both internal and external)/projects within given cost and time
Plan, execute, track and report progress of initiatives taken up
Adopt new processes/ improve existing processes to deliver better business solutions
Adhere to quality / info-security guidelines and processes including maintain adequate documentation
Attend review meetings, business user meetings, IT meetings etc.
Understand the system, application design
Mandatory to understand and take the requirement and get done with team with quality

Work arrangement
No