Engineering Head - SaaS/PaaS - IT Product Firm

Overall responsible for devising and updating development strategy.

- Create digital roadmap for the organisation and set short, medium- and long-term objectives and time bound actions plans.

- Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.

- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.

- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team.

- Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, enhancing, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.

- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.

- Contribute substantially to innovation and overcome technology limitations to deliver on customer experience.

- Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.

- Initiate, lead and/or support development requirements of the assigned business functions and their delivery in accordance with project goals, time scales and costs.

- Lead, manage and train the team.

- Working closely with vendor partners, business / functional heads, supply chain team etc.