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We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.\nYour day at NTT DATA\nThe Senior Director, Development Engineering is a leadership role responsible for ensuring the implementation of the function's strategic objectives across the team(s) within their remit. This role ensures that the business meets its strategic objectives by ensuring the research and development of new digital product/services and/or technologies and the improvement of existing digital products/services and/or technologies. This role ensures that the business is able to anticipate market demand, remain competitive in the marketplace, and plan for any development engineering activities to meet client needs.\nThis role is responsible for ensuring the development and implementation of policies, procedures and processes related to the development engineering function whilst fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on achieving operational excellence.\nKey responsibilities:\nDirects teams in achieving the overall strategy of the development engineering function.\nDrives accountability, consistency, quality, and process standardization across all phases of research and development.\nEnsures the execution of advanced analytical techniques to extend scientific theories in innovative research projects.\nProvides leadership, direction, and mentorship for development engineering function within and across region/geographies.\nResponsible for the development and monitoring of the development 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associated with the technology and development portfolio.\nActively promotes new ways of working that drive agility, speed, and design-thinking.\nChampions cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teaming.\nImplements, maintains and monitors standards, controls, processes, and solutions to minimize business and IT risk, ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements and standards.\nAccountable for driving continuous improvement within the Development Engineering function.\nBuilds long-term, strategic relationships with executive stakeholders in a large client organization.\nSets research goals by making effective proposals for the investment of funds in research and development projects.\nMakes recommendations based on research to influence strategic direction.\nBuilds a shared sense of direction, clarify priorities and goals, and inspire others to achieve these.\nWorks with others to translate strategic direction into operational goals and build a shared understanding of the link between these and core business outcomes.\nTo thrive in this role, you need to have:\nSignificantly vast leadership capability with excellent communication skills.\nCustomer-centric leader with excellent relationship management skills.\nSignificantly vast knowledge of product management and service development life cycles.\nSignificantly vast knowledge of relevant industry best practices.\nExcellent commercial acumen.\nSignificantly vast understanding of market trends that influence the profitability of an organization, particularly related to products and services.\nAbility to think strategically and consideration of the bigger picture.\nAbility to inspire and motivate teams, recognizing team contributions and providing encouragement to achieve best performance.\nDemonstrates resilience in the face of setbacks and challenges, maintaining a positive attitude and inspiring the team to overcome obstacles.\nAbility to prioritize projects/programs effectively to achieve deadlines.\nAbility to be flexible and adaptable in the face of change and uncertainty.\nAbility to lead by example in embracing new challenges and learning from experiences.\nAbility to facilitate presentation of technical and complex matters to Executive/Senior Leadership levels.\nAbility to evaluate risks, priorities and business benefits, leveraging strong business knowledge.\nAbility to keep current with trends, client insights, and competitive strategies.\nAcademic qualifications and certifications:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Technical Management or Business Administration or related field.\nRelevant project management/agile certifications for example, PMP, CSM, PSPO, POPM) are advantageous.\nRequired experience:\nSignificantly vast demonstrated experience building, managing and leading high performance software development, engineering and/or architecture teams.\nSignificantly vast coaching, mentoring, and operational management experience.\nSignificantly vast project/program management experience.\nSignificantly vast demonstrated experience gained at Director level within a large complex organization, particularly a period of significant change within the organization.\nSignificantly vast technical expertise and industry experience.\nSignificantly vast demonstrated experience in dealing with relevant Senior Leadership level stakeholders.\nSubstantial experience in building strong relationships and negotiating with key decision makers and influencers\nSubstantial demonstrable track record of involvement in research and development of new products or product lines\nSubstantial experience developing programs that address the research and development industry trends\nSubstantial experience analyzing development needs of the development engineering team\nSubstantial experience working with Scaled Agile approach and methodology\nSubstantial demonstrated experience of developing and implementing relevant strategies in a multi supplier environment, managing third party services\nSubstantial people management responsibilities and/or allocation of resources within a department or project environment\nWorkplace type:\nHybrid WorkingAbout NTT DATA\nNTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune\nGlobal 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through\nresponsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with\nunmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and\napplication services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move\nconfidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more\nthan 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as\nestablished and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each\nyear in R&D.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nNTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.\nThird parties fraudulently posing as NTT DATA recruiters\nNTT DATA recruiters will never ask job seekers or candidates for payment or banking information during the recruitment process, for any reason. Please remain vigilant of third parties who may attempt to impersonate NTT DATA recruiters whether in writing or by phone in order to deceptively obtain personal data or money from you. All email communications from an NTT DATA recruiter will come from an @nttdata.com email address. 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