Engineering Head - Technology

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS:

Strategy, Technology roadmap and Execution:

- Manage all technology platforms including the strategic planning, development, and support of all Web, Mobile and AI Initiatives. Own the success of the web and mobile platform for all of the Foundation's initiatives.

- Define the vision of the engineering structure and drive developer productivity

- Understand how all elements of the software lifecycle work together and develop quality engineering approaches that fit the overall architecture.

- Design test strategies and create appropriate test harnesses, data, and tools that increase the speed of sprint cycles and allow for constant high-quality results.

- Identify the technology trends and evolving opportunities for delivering the organizations growth. Leading the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of software

solutions conjunction with the Product Management team, lead multiple technology and new product development projects utilizing cutting edge technology.

- Technology Strategy: Maintain a view on the fast-developing technology ecosystem (especially AI) and the Foundation's mission to determine novel/disruptive technology solutions for scale and impact.

- Platform Design: Work with CTO to develop an integrated platform architecture for the Foundation's various products and programs (incorporating first and third-party components)

- Roadmaps: Maintaining and aligning the organization to a defined roadmap that supports current needs with available technologies while evolving to best-in-class solutions for evolving needs

- Ensure tangible and measurable results through clear KPIs and metrics for digital and AI initiatives.

- Taking feedback from programme teams on how users are experiencing the platform and improving the interface basis on-going feedback.

- Track, analyze and monitor technology performance metrics.

- Negotiate contracts and manage relationships with IT service providers, vendors, and consultants (in consultation with Legal).

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

People Management

- As Engineering Head, you will lead and directly manage a team of Software Development Managers, Technical Program Managers, Data Engineers, and a Development Operations team.

- Create a passionate culture of sustained innovation in which people are producing their best work of their career.

- Hire motivated team and inspire them to design and incept ground-breaking technologies which grow the product and technology platform.

- Manage a hybrid team of internal FTEs and external developer resources through staff augmentation model

Skills and Experience:

- Applicants must hold a relevant University degree in the field of Engineering /Technology science, or another rigorous discipline. An advanced degree in one these fields is a plus.

- Engineering leadership in early-stage, large-scale technology initiatives

- Deep understanding and mastery of the Product and Technology disciplines with minimum 15 to 20 years of overall experience.

- Translation of technology vision and strategy into actionable plans and goals with short, mid,and longer-term impact

- Strong experience in development of app and digital products for web and mobile.

- Incumbent should have an established background in developing scalable technical products by showcasing previous or current experience in n-tier/e-commerce/Web Services development platforms.

- Architecture and deployment of scalable web applications. Managed large volumes of transactions, user interface, interconnectivity and user sharing on a platform.