Vice President - Engineering - Education

Our client is India's no 1 education company in Tests,

Designation: VP Engineering

Job Responsibilities:

Skills: No sql ( Mongodb, cassandra, Hbase,Redis)

- Responsible for executing overall technology vision, shaping its technical strategy, and driving its development execution that will firmly place as the leader in providing cutting-edge applications to the market.

- This person will help recruit world-class talent, manage the appropriate development methodologies, and create the proper organizational structure to drive a high performing development team to deliver the products to the clients with relentless execution.

- Working actively in product development and leading in the trenches as needed, providing innovative solutions to real engineering problems and serving as an example to the engineering team.

- Lead and drive engineering strategy and direction, including short and long-range goals and where to make investments.

- Defining and communicating corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and designing new software products.

- Strategic planning for all product development efforts to include the subsequent testing, release and production environment needs

- Developing the team's industry knowledge, technical proficiencies and essential soft-skills.

- Being an active spokesperson and evangelist both internally and externally by communicating and promoting the Company's technology vision and solutions.

- Collaborate with the CEO, Product Teams and leaders across functions to define future product offerings/deliveries as well as evaluate technologies for corporate development.

- Maintaining and enhancing software quality by various methods including lean startup principles, agile methodologies, XP and continuous delivery.

- Presenting ideas on both; the technical and business sides and at the executive and team levels.

- Gather technical requirements and propose solutions based on client's architectural needs.

- Interact with prospective customers during product demos/evaluations.

- Represent the technology perspective at client meetings.

- Represent the technology perspective at board meetings.

- Be responsible for overall headcount and engineering budget.

- Travel to client locations for project on-boarding and technical consulting.

- Enhance efficiency of development, test and release process; develop tools, frameworks.

- Willing to invest significant time and token capital into the company.

- Developing and sustaining a culture of passion, hard-work and innovation that will make our client The Place to Work.

Location : Mumbai