Associate Director/Senior Principal Engineer - eCommerce/FinTech

We are looking for exceptional technologist to join our Technology team. The candidate will be involved in building complex next generation software and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives

Responsibilities/What you will do :

- Contribute to technology vision and strategy of the firm

- Create and review architectural decisions of products

- Own and drive technology innovation in the firm

- Engage actively with the tech community via blogs, knowledge sharing sessions and other mediums to increase employee knowledge and skills to support future growth

- Locate ways to optimize and make efficient use of IT resources

- Continuously evaluate SDLC Process and practices and suggest improvements

- Contribute to Architecture Repository - It includes ideas, designs, frameworks, policies, process, and so on

- Lead the group to build sophisticated products using cutting edge technology stack, that are highly available, scalable, and reliable on cloud platform

- Provide visible leadership for the unit within the technology community

- Mentor highly skilled Principal Engineers by providing guidance and coaching

- Work closely with Director of Engineering and Head of Technology to execute technology vision and strategy of the firm

Skill set required/What is needed :

- A bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering with 14+ years of experience in IT industry

- Deep understanding in one of the programming languages

- Good understanding of architectural principles & patterns

- Experience with relational and non-relational Database technologies

- Exposure to any of the prominent cloud service providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)

- Experience in preparing business cases with benefits and driver, financial merits

- Experience with evaluation of open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools

- Penchant to explore and learn new technologies

- Experience and knowledge of delivering products with low/no touch support along with SRE principles

- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving scalability challenges for existing apps

- Experience guiding/mentoring highly skilled engineers

- Ability to oversee multiple technology initiatives and engagements concurrently

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

- Excellent leadership and motivational skills