Location: Bangalore  AVP - Engineering   This position is with India's well know E-commerce company  Key Responsibilities :  - Develop strategic and operational planning for the direction and control of product development activities.  - Formulate long-term objectives and standards of performance for the department.  - Assure that department achieves objectives and project completion within budget and time frame.  - Be a student of current industry trends, ensuring that the company maintains and expands its technology leadership position.  - Motivate staff and provide technical direction and guidance, as well as hands-on project management, recognizing the role as that of manager and support resource / mentor.  - Assure that product is designed for specific needs, but with wider applications in mind.  - Hire and direct staff group members to acquire necessary resources to meet scheduled commitments.  - Ensure implementation and refinement as required of formal process to support the product development process.  - Ensure that product development is focused on meeting and exceeding the customer requirements.  Ideal Experience :  - 12 - 14 years engineering experience,   - Strong operational and project management skills  - Demonstrated team building and leadership skills  - Out of the box thinker- must be key driver contributing to the products roadmap and willing to take innovative product risk while balancing the road map for on time deliverables.  - Previously worked in an environment that requires exceptional scalability and extensibility  - Manage diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities.  - Strong relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills.  - Familiarity with current technology trends  - Worked in a fast growing environment  - Ability to work in a high pressure environment  Technical skills :  - Strong experience in Java development, including Spring & Hibernate  - Experience in database design especially in  - MySQL and reasonable depth in NoSQL  - Up to date with current technology trends  - Exceptional design and architectural skills  - Good at designing highly scalable and extensible systems with very high performance.  - Designing and developing webservices, mostly REST.  - Expert in optimizing algorithms  - Knowledge of theoretical idea about test automation.  People Management :  - At least 4 years of experience in managing 20-30 member team with multiple levels of hierarchy  - Should have managed a QA team at some point of time  - Should be good at managing intra/inter team communication  - Good at conflict resolution  - Should be able to speak for the entire tech team and be aware of projects in progress in depth  Project Management :  Familiarity with agile/scrum processes :  - Strong track record of meeting timelines for complex projects  - Should be able to coordinate across multiple stake holders and align technology with business goals.  Other skills :  - Should be able to create short term (3-6 months) tech plans and long term (1-3 years) tech plans  - Should be able to create annual and quarterly tech budgets  - Should be good at resource planning  - Should have experience of handling third party vendors and some knowledge of outsourcing dev/QA work  - Should be an excellent judge of buy vs build decisions  Competencies for Success :  Disruptive Thinking: In addition to the Technology expertise, the individual should be able to act as the trusted advisor to the VP-Engineering. S/he will do this by :  - Building a strong team by way of disruptive ideas and implementation  - Identifying new ideas for technology as well as to address both the short and long term company needs  - Should be very good with data and be able to identify trends and prioritize key opportunities to pursue  - Adept with trends & latest best practices. Should be willing to experiment & demonstrate - out of box- creativity in one's own area.  - Display a strong entrepreneurial streak and take calculated risks to enable the business to grow exponentially.  - Should be obsessed with enhancing the consumer experience  - Understanding consumers well and using insights to develop the strategy  - Incorporating customer feedback and using that to better overall customer experience  - Should be extremely tech savvy to be able to contribute ideas for leveraging technology to enhance customer experience and for customer acquisition.  S/he will do this by :  - Experimenting with ideas, with a sense of urgency, irrespective of the outcome, serving as an inspiration to the team .  - Be a motivational leader, taking charge and leading the organization  - Being accountable for achieving the agreed upon targets  Personal Attributes :  - Proven leadership ability  - Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously.  - Excellent written and oral communication skills.  - Excellent interpersonal skills.  - Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.  - Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.  - Keen attention to detail.  - Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.  - Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.  - Passion and commitment  - High integrity  Prashant Jha  9999418333

Delhi NCR

AVP - Engineering - eCommerce 

AVP - Engineering - eCommerce  ,Job Description for AVP - Engineering - eCommerce  in Laksh Human Resource India Pvt Ltd. in  Delhi NCR for (10-15) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for AVP - Engineering - eCommerce  in Laksh Human Resource India Pvt Ltd. in  Delhi NCR for (10-15) years of experience. Apply Now!