Full-Time

Senior Manager Engineering

Posted on 3/26/2025

PDI Technologies

PDI Technologies

1,001-5,000 employees

Provides payment solutions and loyalty programs

No salary listed

Senior, Expert

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Category
Engineering Management
Software Development Management
Required Skills
SQL
Development Operations (DevOps)
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience leading engineering teams for product development
  • 5+ years of experience as an engineering manager for product development
  • 10+ years of combined experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and/or DevOps
  • Working experience with scaled software architecture & domain: performance, redundancy, failover, clustering, vertical scaling
  • Working experience with source code management patterns and DevOps automation
  • Proficient in API design, development & production operation
  • Working experience with at least one mainstream operating system and IP networking
  • Working experience managing production client & server code bases across one or more technology stacks
  • Working experience with production SQL schema design, queries & administration in one or more mainstream relational and/or no-SQL databases
  • Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
Responsibilities
  • Lead an organization of 15-25 development & test engineers globally to efficiently produce high quality & deliverables
  • Manage individual contributors, team leads, engineering managers or a mix
  • Manage several product deliverables for one or more product lines on time, on scope and on quality
  • Instrument your processes, produce scorecards of progress regularly and establish a regular cadence of operational reviews with your management including quality metrics, coding efficiencies, improvements, challenges, remediation needs
  • Correlate, report, and drive the adoption of Process/Continuous Improvement initiatives
  • Manage the team to a defined budget and provide forecasting for future spending
  • Coach leads and engineering managers on leadership tasks and activities
  • Recruit & provide leadership, coaching & career planning for engineering talent
  • Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
  • Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
  • Communicate with customers to ensure that expectations and support needs are met
  • Provide architectural guidance to your teams towards our PDI Cloud & Platform strategy
  • Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
  • Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product development practices
  • Participate in the design & implementation of production cloud grade services supporting high availability
  • Actively talent manage your team providing career planning & performance improvement activities when needed.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience managing capitalized software processes.
  • Experience with managing teams' operational health by analyzing product teams' work distribution CapEx, Opex, Maintenance, Billable and OH.
  • Experience managing the organizational structure of teams as well as headcount & non-headcount budgets.
  • Working experience with event-based systems, streaming architecture & related technologies.
  • Working experience with orchestration, automation, and configuration management processes & related DevOps tools & cloud platforms.

PDI Technologies provides payment solutions, loyalty programs, and shopper insights specifically designed for retail and convenience businesses. Their products help streamline operations and enhance customer engagement by offering software that connects businesses with their customers. PDI's solutions are tailored for the retail and petroleum wholesale markets, allowing clients to make informed decisions based on data insights. Unlike many competitors, PDI has over 40 years of experience and serves a diverse client base, including convenience stores and restaurants, focusing on operational efficiency and data security. The company's goal is to help clients increase profitability and build customer loyalty through effective use of technology.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Alpharetta, Georgia

Founded

1983

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • PDI's strategic acquisitions expand its market reach and technology suite.
  • Integration with ValidiFI streamlines pay-by-bank enrollments, enhancing consumer choice.
  • GasBuddy, a PDI company, provides valuable insights into gas price factors.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from fintech startups could erode PDI's market share.
  • Rapid adoption of digital wallets may outpace PDI's current technology offerings.
  • Consumer privacy concerns could impact PDI's data-driven business model.

What makes PDI Technologies unique

  • PDI Technologies offers industry-specific solutions for retail and petroleum wholesale markets.
  • The company leverages over 40 years of experience in payment and loyalty solutions.
  • PDI's acquisition of P97 Networks enhances its digital engagement capabilities.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Professional Development Budget

Company News

GlobeNewswire
Apr 1st, 2025
PDI Technologies Acquires P97 Networks

PDI Technologies has acquired P97 Networks, a mobile commerce and digital marketing platform provider. P97's platform, used by major fuel brands like CITGO, ExxonMobil, and Shell, enhances digital engagement in the convenience retail and fuel markets. PDI plans to expand P97's capabilities, including payment solutions for connected devices. This acquisition follows PDI's recent acquisitions of Nuspire and Comdata Merchant Solutions, further growing its market reach and technology suite.

Morningstar
Mar 6th, 2025
PDI Technologies Presents "The Retail Marketeers European Female Leaders in Convenience Awards"

PDI Technologies presents "The Retail Marketeers European Female Leaders in Convenience Awards"

PYMNTS
Jan 28th, 2025
Bank Account Intelligence: The New Frontier In Credit Decisioning

A bank account represents a direct connection to a business or consumer’s daily financial life. It holds all manner of data points that give lenders and payment service providers the information they need to improve their decision making, ward off would-be fraudsters and inform credit underwriting. Call it “bank account intelligence.” As ValidiFI CEO John Gordon told Karen Webster in an interview, the granular details that give insight into an account’s behavior and payment performance are critical in improving the financial ecosystem at large as enterprises are better informed about attractive customer behavior that speeds approvals — and gets to more positive outcomes in the process

PYMNTS
Dec 5th, 2024
Digifi Adds Validifi’S Credit Risk Solutions To Automated Digital Lending Platform

ValidiFI and DigiFi have partnered to provide lenders with automated, streamlined credit decisioning. In a new strategic integration, ValidiFI’s credit risk solutions will be added to DigiFi’s automated digital lending platform, the companies said in a Wednesday (Dec. 4) press release. “We are excited to add ValidiFI as a valuable partner to our platform,” DigiFi CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Jersey said in the release. “With this addition, our clients will gain access to credit risk solutions that provide a comprehensive view of creditworthiness, enabling more predictive, automated decisions.”

PR Newswire
Nov 20th, 2024
Validifi Selected By Pdi Technologies To Streamline Pay-By-Bank Enrollments With Consumer Choice

Collaboration enables real-time bank account enrollment for consumers to pay at convenience and wholesale petroleum retailers. ALPHARETTA, Ga., Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ValidiFI, Inc., the leading provider of predictive bank account and payment intelligence, is thrilled to announce a strategic technology integration with PDI Technologies, a global leader in the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem, to offer real-time bank account validation within its consumer enrollment process for the PDI Payments solutions. The integration will also include GasBuddy, a PDI company. GasBuddy is the leading fuel savings platform saving North American drivers and consumers money on gas and more every day. Selecting ValidiFI as the preferred provider for bank account validation empowers consumers to choose how they enroll their bank account – using their online banking credentials or manually entering bank account information

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