Buildmyghar - VP - Technology

VP - Technology

About the project : Buildmyghar

- Having revolutionizing the construction industry by their products & - Grey Revolution-, team Magicrete Building Solutions Pvt Ltd is now taking - Construction Social- . Led by alumni's of some of the most prominent institutes of India including IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi & IIM Lucknow and with an experience of almost 8 years in Innovative Construction Technologies our team brings a seamless Home Building experience for their users. Our team have professionals from all the required traits of home building to help you realize your dream home in the way you want.

- Buildmyghar is an platform for individual home builders (IHB) to select home plans and get their dream home constructed on their existing plot (or buy a plot from the platform) in 4 steps - Choose, Plan, Order, Build (CPOB) process. The houses will be built using prefab construction technology as modular elements in a factory, shipped to site and assembled by the team, all in 60 days- time.

Why join us :

- A rare opportunity to lead a concept that is revolutionizing the construction industry. Become part of an ambitious team that has previously deployed projects to top construction industry.

Job purpose :

- The position would be responsible for establishing organization technical vision and lead all aspects of the establishment of technology centre and play an integral role in realizing the organizations strategic vision creating innovative marketing strategies that will build our brand, leading to increased awareness, fundraising revenue.

- You would require to possess tremendous communication and leadership skills, with proven success in traditional and innovative campaigns across the broad spectrum of today's marketing channels.

- The position demands a ground-breaking leader with strategic, creative and financial acumen as well as a strong business intellect to take our organization to the next level.

Duties and responsibilities :

Strategy & Planning :

- Identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company's services as a web-based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success.

- Identify technology trends and evolving social behaviour that may support or impede the success of the business.

- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company's services in alliance with streamlining current e-commerce platform setup.

- Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all web-based services.

- Participate as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization's resources are used responsibly, particularly in the areas of software development, office networks and computers, and telecommunications that meets government, partner, and company expectations for customer information privacy.

- Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.

- Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company's data and servers.

- Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.

- Communicate the company's technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.

Implementation & Deployment :

- As a member of the senior management team, participate in the selection and registration of the company's web site domain names, including any related-but-unused domains that could compromise the integrity of the business (through competition, typo squatting, etc.).

- Establish email service for the company (in the absence of a system administrator).

- Select and set up a software revision control system and repository (in the absence of a system administrator).

- Select and set up web-based internal communications systems, such as a wiki, blog, chatroom, project management, and bug tracking systems (in the absence of a system administrator).

- Collaborate with the founders and potential customers to develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications that describe the implementation of the company's services as a web application.

- Collaborate with a User Experience Designer and potential customers to prepare wireframes or mockups of a prototype of the company's web application.

- As a member of the senior management team, participate in the selection of a graphic designer who will create the company corporate identity and design the web application's look and feel. Ensure that the graphic designer has sufficient web experience, follows guidelines established in the User Experience design process, and delivers assets that can be easily adapted to web requirements.

- Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will implement a design as web pages using CSS and XHTML conforming to web standards.

- Select or define the company's software development methodology.

- Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen based on user stories and the User Experience design.

- Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards.

- Review current best practices for the selected web framework and establish the initial architecture for the application.

- Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will implement the application.

- Establish and supervise the software development process, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the selected software development methodology.

- Conduct code reviews and specification conformance testing as defined by the selected software development methodology.

- Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.

- Select, deploy, and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures.

- Review and approve proposed development releases and manage the release process.

- Evaluate and select web application hosting providers.

- Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers.

- Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.

- Establish and monitor a web analytics regime that measures site traffic and application usage relative to business goals.

- Support the marketing process by providing implementation of technical requirements for Internet marketing and search engine optimization.

- As a member of the senior management team, establish a customer service and support process, with particular responsibility for web-based services that implement the support function. Establish a process to integrate customer service and support with the software engineering process to support resolution of customer issues and improve application usability.

Operational Management :

- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely (including reading your peers- blogs!).

- Define and communicate company values and standards for acquiring or developing systems, equipment, or software within the company.

- Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.

- Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization's investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company's technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.

- Ensure company technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner.

- Develop, track, and control the development and deployment annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations.

- Supervise recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all development staff in accordance with the company hiring process, personnel policies, and budget requirements.

- Establish standards of performance and monitor conformance for staff (through performance review) and vendors (through service level agreements).

- Ensure the company's internal technological processes and customer-facing services comply with community expectations and applicable laws and regulations for privacy, security, and social responsibility.

- Promote achievement of the company's business goals within a context of community collaboration by developing policies for sharing software code, technological innovation, business processes, and other intellectual property.

- Contribute to open source software development, standardization of technologies, and evolution of best practices by collaborating with peers outside the company, releasing code, presenting at conferences, and writing for publication (online or offline).

Knowledge and Skill requirements :

- 7 years experience managing web application development.

- 3 years experience with startup companies.

- Skill with Advanced level skills - framework design and backend technologies (PHP, Ajax, Wordpress, Java, MySQL, MsSQL, MongoDB, cloud programs and server tech, CSS, XHTML, one or more Javascript frameworks).

- Experience with UNIX system administration and web server configuration.

- Knowledge of Internet protocols and RFC standards, database management systems, and revivion control systems.

- Exposure to business theory, business process development, governance processes, management, budgeting, and administrative operations and mobile platforms.