Director - Software Development

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We are looking for a Director-Software Development for the VGS Group in India to lead the Wholesale platforms, Enterprise Billing & Mediation suite of applications . In this role, you will be working across Product Leaders, Strategy & Revenue Assurance partners, Billing Quality assurance and Digital stakeholders to enable Wholesale product, Billing, Mediation and Reporting features of both Wireline & Wireless verizon products & services. Should be a thought leader experienced in driving strategy, infusing AI first culture as well as influencing and driving the vision set by Executive Leadership

In this Role you will be responsible for

• Collaborating and influencing various stakeholders in the US and India teams.

• Providing technical design and architectural leadership and engages across lines of business to ensure technical fit with respect to business needs

• Providing technical leadership, guidance, and support in the deployment of complex applications in globally distributed computing environments.

• Facilitating the governance and use of enterprise architecture principles, guidance and reference architectures.

• Driving AI tools adoption as well AI use cases in our teams.

• Integrating AI/ML technologies into product development lifecycles, including identifying, prototyping, and deploying AI-driven solutions that yield tangible business efficiencies or new product capabilities

• Building the talent & leadership pipeline through coaching and mentoring. Hire, train & retrain high performing innovation experts.

• Enabling successful collaboration with multiple internal and external partners (including Vendor Partners).

• Delivering results within budget, time, quality and strategic as well tactical key performance goals and strong negotiating skills.

• Maintaining required governance, SOX Audits and ensure security compliance of all applications responsible

Where youll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by the leadership team

Youll need to have:

• Bachelors degree or ten or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience in IT and Business Unit driving technology strategy and solutions implementation across portfolios and lines of business.

• Experience working across Global Stakeholders across Time Zones.

• Ability to identify opportunities, facilitate sessions to ideate and come up with AI Use cases to drive innovation and efficiencies

• Telecom industry experience with a focus on large scale transformation programs

• Experience in evaluating SaaS and PaaS platforms in the Billing Ecosystem.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A Master's degree.

• Industry recognitions, patents & papers , participation in standards/ professional bodies

• Data Architecture experience and strong knowledge on our wireless & wireline products

• Ability to thrive and adapt in a highly dynamic and ambiguous environment, consistently meeting critical deadlines and managing competing priorities effectively.

• Exceptional executive-level communication skills, with a proven ability to effectively present complex technical strategies and project updates to VPs, SVPs, CIOs, and other senior leadership.

• Relationship skills to enable success across multiple partners.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every" even better" qualification listed above.

Where youll be working

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.