Head - Software Development - Digital Solutions - Telecom

The Employer

The Employer is a group company of one of Indonesia's largest conglomerates. The diversified business group has interests in several traditional and technology sector corporations, boasts a multi-billion dollar combined sales turnover, and employs more than 200k employees. For the Digital Solutions division of its telecom business, it is interested in bringing on board an experienced software engineering professional to provide leadership to the application development function.

Position : Head of Software Development (Digital Solutions), Telecom

Job Code : EXP/HSW-DSTel/INDO/0423

Location : Jakarta, Indonesia

Responsibilities

Reporting to the CTO for Digital Solutions, the selected candidate will provide overall leadership to a team of 40 motivated professionals engaged in developing cutting-edge digital solutions and apps for the company's mobile data consumers.

He/She will direct the technology strategy, oversee multiple concurrent application development projects, and drive continuous improvements, and ensure delivery of high-quality outcomes; lead ideation and development of digital solutions for mobile data, web and payments; oversee API design and usage; and deploy Agile methodologies.

He/She will hire new talent and develop in-house capabilities through structured and on-the-job training; take inputs and feedback from Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Product Management and other teams; monitor competition and new technology trends; and advise top management on technology roadmaps.

Requirements

Ideal candidates will have:

- Graduate/Post-Graduate degree in IT/Computer Science/Engineering

- At least 12~15 years of relevant experience

- Strong experience of managing application development and APIs in a telecom or digital solutions company

- Strong technical, ideation, analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to relate to both business needs and technical requirements.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Strong leadership, project management and coordination skills

- Ability to manage product vendors as well as outsourced talent

- Innovative. Creative. Passionate about building digital solutions, especially for younger generations.