Manager - Product Technology

Job Summary

Lead technology initiatives for our Gold Loans product line. Drive end-to-end delivery of digital platforms, lending systems, and customer journeys. Sit at the intersection of business strategy and technology execution. Combine technical acumen with program management expertise in BFSI.

Responsibilities

• Own planning, execution, and delivery of technology projects across the Gold Loans product lifecycle.
• Manage loan origination systems (LOS), loan management systems (LMS), and customer onboarding journeys.
• Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, engineering teams, vendors, and compliance partners.
• Translate business requirements into clear technical roadmaps and deliverable milestones.
• Manage sprint planning, release cycles, and dependencies across multiple cross-functional engineering teams.
• Track project health through metrics, dashboards, and status reporting to senior leadership.
• Identify technical risks, integration challenges, and bottlenecks early and drive them to resolution.
• Ensure solutions adhere to regulatory requirements (RBI guidelines for gold loans, KYC/AML norms, data privacy).
• Uphold internal security and audit standards across all deliverables.
• Oversee vendor management for third-party platforms, valuation tools, fintech partners, and infrastructure providers.
• Champion engineering best practices around architecture reviews, code quality, testing, and DevOps.
• Continuously improve delivery processes through Agile, Scrum, or hybrid methodologies.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 8-10 years of progressive experience in technology project management.
• Substantial experience delivering software products in the BFSI sector (banks, NBFCs, fintechs, or lending platforms).
• Direct experience with gold loan product preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline (required).
• MBA is a plus but not mandatory; equivalent demonstrated business acumen equally valued.
• Strong working knowledge of microservices architecture, REST and event-driven APIs.
• Working knowledge of databases and integration patterns common in financial services.
• Comfortable reading technical designs and challenging architectural decisions.
• Able to engage in substantive conversations with engineers, architects, and security teams.
• Exposure to core banking systems, loan origination and management platforms.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, and modern CI/CD and observability platforms.
• Working experience with Salesforce.

Skills and Attributes

• Strong stakeholder management across technical teams and business leadership.
• Sound judgment in prioritization, trade-offs, and managing competing demands.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Clear, concise communication skills (written and verbal).
• Certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, or SAFe are advantageous but not mandatory.

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