Lifzzy.com - Co-founder & CTO - IIT

Looking for someone from IIT with strong technical background.

The Chief Technology Officer's role is to assure the successful execution of the company's business mission through development and deployment of the company's web presence. This requires envisioning the company's service offerings as a web-based business, leading implementation of web applications, and planning for risk and growth.

Responsibilities :

Strategy & Planning

- In partnership with the company's founders, 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 behavior 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.

- 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.

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

- Establish a governance process that meets government, partner, and company expectations for customer information privacy.

- 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, typosquatting, etc.).

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

- Select and set up a software revision control sytem 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Exceptional service orientation.

- Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

- Work Conditions

On-call availability and periodic overtime.

Sitting for extended periods of time.

Dexterity of hands and fingers (or skill with adaptive devices) to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other computing equipment.