Vice President - Lead Product Architect

Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services and solutions firm delivering outcomes that shape the future. Our 125,000+ people across 30+ countries are driven by our innate curiosity, entrepreneurial agility, and desire to create lasting value for clients. Powered by our purpose – the relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people – we serve and transform leading enterprises, including the Fortune Global 500, with our deep business and industry knowledge, digital operations services, and expertise in data, technology, and AI.

Inviting applications for the role of Vice President – Lead Product Architect

As the Lead Product Architect , you will be a key driver in designing and leading the architecture for our enterprise-level products, leveraging modern technologies. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to transform business needs into robust technical solutions while ensuring scalability, security, and performance. Your expertise in cloud-native solutions and microservices will be essential in overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from conception to deployment . You will also mentor and lead a talented engineering team, ensuring architectural alignment with strategic business goals, and will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, innovative products that meet the needs of a large operations team within our organization. This role requires deep experience in architecting complex systems and ensuring successful, timely product delivery through effective resources and delivery planning.

Responsibilities

Architectural Leadership

• Lead the architecture and technical direction of enterprise-level products, ensuring solutions meet performance, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency requirements.

• Design and implement innovative architectures leveraging modern technologies

• Define and communicate technical strategy and architecture roadmaps to stakeholders and ensure alignment with business objectives .

Product Development and Integration

• Oversee the full lifecycle of product development, from conception to deployment, ensuring architecture supports efficient, high-quality software delivery.

• Integrate complex systems and applications using cloud-native solutions, microservices, and distributed systems architectures.

• Collaborate with the product management team to translate business needs into functional product designs and features.

Agile and DevOps Enablement

• Champion the adoption of Agile practices to improve responsiveness to business needs and market changes, driving continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) methodologies.

• Work closely with DevOps teams to ensure seamless deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of solutions across cloud environments.

• Encourage automation and best practices in software development, from testing to deployment, ensuring product reliability and scalability.

Leadership and Team Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to engineering teams, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business goals.

• Foster a collaborative team environment, promoting innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

• Drive technical excellence through architectural reviews, code quality assessments, and hands-on involvement in the most challenging aspects of product development.

Strategic Planning and Execution

• Collaborate with senior leadership to develop architectural strategies that support long-term business goals.

• Ensure alignment between architectural design and business requirements, maintaining flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and emerging technologies.

• Develop staffing and resource plans to meet both current and future project needs, optimizing team performance to ensure timely and successful product deliveries.

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications / Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science , Information Technology, or a related field.

• Proven experience in technology leadership roles, managing large team IT professionals, and developing large-scale systems.

• Proficiency in AWS, ServiceNow, Power BI, Node.js, and Python.

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and software development best practices.

• Expertise in cloud-based architecture, microservices, and enterprise-level system design.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect).

• Previous experience in architecting and developing products in a similar technology stack.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and enterprise-level product management.

Genpact is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. Genpact is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. Get to know us at genpact.com and on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , and Facebook .

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