Rajiv Jha — VP of Engineering
Technical Leader and high performer with 18+ years of software product development experience including 7+ years of people management experience managing a team of managers and architects driving company wide technical and strategic leadership initiatives like data localisation for India card members, enforcing framework adoption, building and increasing adoption of large scale platform products to company wide enterprise community promoting reuse and time to market, driving innovation through ideathons/roadshows, setting up and scaling product development teams at offshore GCC from ground up for multiple reputed software firms under several business domains (e-commerce/retail, fintech, enterprise platform products), product roadmap planning, shipping critical, modern and strategic products to production with operational excellence, best fit architecture, optimal budget on-time. Technology exposure includes handling Multi region Multi DC operations, Java backend with large scale distributed systems, system design and architecture, micro-services with event driven architecture, Spark for Big Data processing, Various nosql data stores, Building GenAI applications via massive code scans for effective tech governance, AWS and on-premise private cloud, caches, application UI with ReactJs, messaging brokers and building containerized cloud native environment platform frameworks/services for the cross cutting concern of the organization. Strong believer of GPTW benchmarks, diversity & inclusion, employee engagements, encouraging innovation, volunteering across company, R&R and building overall great team culture and fun workplace. Current Role: (Engineering Director) :- Tech/People/Process/Delivery Leader/Architect Managing Managers and engineers at Amex under Enterprise Architecture department under CTO Organization handling planning, development and operations of enterprise framework products and driving company wide architecture initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and Fintech with a strong focus on cloud-native architectures.
Location: Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Experience: 19 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Digital Transformation
- Java
- Product Development
Career Highlights
- 18+ years in software product development
- Expert in building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong advocate for team culture and innovation
Work Experience
American Express
Engineering Director (6 yrs 10 mos)
Tesco
Software Development Manager (1 yr 5 mos)
Intuit
Staff Software Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)
Myntra Jabong
SDE III (3 mos)
Adobe
Computer Scientist (2 yrs 10 mos)
Oracle
Senior Member of Technical Staff- Server Technology Group-Oracle UCM (1 yr 7 mos)
GT Nexus
Sr Software Engineer (11 mos)
Sterling Commerce an AT&T company
Software Engineer (2 yrs 9 mos)
Ibm Global Service (I) Private Limited
Associate Software Developer (1 yr)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad