Assistant Vice President - Technology - Transit Payments Firm

We are looking for AVP Technology for a leading Transit Payments company

Key Responsibilities:

- Define technology roadmap for various products of a business unit. Align choices to overall organisation technology strategy.

- Work closely with teams to review architectural and technological choices for functional, cost and time to deliver fitment.

- Optimize processes for productivity.

- Build teams, assess skill gaps, plan upskilling exercises

- Collaborate with operations teams to monitor and assure SLA adherence of all services

- Collaborate with directors and managers of Project, Product and QA teams for staffing each project appropriately

- Mentor and manage engineering managers for effective delivery of projects

- Percolate the benefits of the relevant technological choices to Project, Product, Operations and Business teams

Requirement:

- Experience in designing and developing mission critical applications using Python / C++ / JAVA

- Prior experience working on caching technologies and working on Rules based technologies is a plus.

- Good understanding of web and mobile application technology stack

- Experience with CI/CD environments and automation test frameworks

- Strong Architectural and Design skills.

- Good understanding of distributed systems, micro-services, messaging systems and associated architectural patterns

- In-depth understanding of traditional relational databases and modern NoSql databases.

- Mastery in Object-oriented analysis and design.

- Good understanding of agile development practices

- Familiarity with production operations of large-scale systems

- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

- Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution and ability to multitask.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience in engaging and influencing peers and executives

- A start up experience of 2 years will be preferable