Vice President/Head - Technology - Digital Transformation & Digital Marketing Agency

Vice President/Head - Technology - Digital Transformation & Digital Marketing Agency

Role: Head of Technology

Designation: VP - Technology

Reporting to: President

Location: Mumbai

- Requirements

- Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy

- Understanding of budgets and business-planning

- Ability to conduct technological analyses and research

- Excellent communication skills

- Leadership and organizational abilities

- Strategic thinking

- Problem-solving aptitude

- BFSI exposure

- Exposure to working under tight time-lines and high velocity

Key Responsibilities:

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following and others as assigned:

Areas of Responsibility: 

Architecture and Design : 

- Utilizes their knowledge of and experience with eBusiness solution, enterprise and deployment architectures

- Applies their understanding of the limits of the tools being used and discusses the tradeoffs in the design phase vs. implementation

- Recommends appropriate architecture based on client's business problem and drivers

- Explains the trade-offs involved in designing a solution to the client and the team

Design Skills: 

- Utilizes their understanding of package solutions and recommends their use as part of the solution when appropriate

- Leverages their experience with component and service-based design

- Translates the impact of design on scalability, performance & security as key elements into the project

- Drives client through "ilities" discussion

- Leads a team of Agencies and client people in business and technical designs of the application

- Manages dependencies, identifies risk and mitigates them across all modules

Business Acumen: 

- Translates the client's business requirements into systems design

- Challenges business design when appropriate. Offers creative alternatives regarding business design

Technical Depth : 

- Resolves complex technical issues

- Provides mentoring on best practices and processes.

- Ensures quality based on experience

Deployment Considerations : 

- Understands what it takes to deploy an application - processes, procedures, organization, performance, etc.

- Works with a client on their tracks (planning, integration points, milestones)

Technology Strategy :

- Balances the considerations of what it takes to deploy an application -- processes, procedures, organization, performance, etc.

- Works with the client on their tracks (planning, integration points, milestones)

Project Processes : 

- Leverages their knowledge of the stages of the One Team Approach

- Utilizes the deliverables from other disciplines and OTA phases

- Plans and drives: bus design, tech design, development, stabilization, pilot, parallel, production tracks, cut-over, support

- Promotes the value of project processes and establishes these processes on a new project

- Educates and ensures that team follows processes.

- Defines and assesses completeness of work

Project Management : 

- Establishes high, mid and micro level plans for the team

- Sets technical direction and manages a team of up to 30 people

- Anticipates issues & risks and work towards resolving them, readily escalates project and account level issues

- Partners with the project manager and client to establish scope management process

- Actively manages scope at the project level

- Quickly evaluates the LOE, complexity and risk involved in adding a scope item

Estimation : 

- Independently leads the estimation effort for a project

- Reviews other's estimates and points out holes

- Actively works to quantify project risks in the estimate

Risk Management : 

- Identifies and manages risk on project

- Escalates risk appropriately

- Quantifies risk and assesses business impact

Sales : 

- Prepares pieces of a sales proposal and portrays Agencies- technical expertise

- Communicates Agencies- POV on various technologies

Account Management :

- Actively works with the account team to establish strategy for the account

Key Success Factor:

1. Manage expectation at - C-Level at clients end by presenting to them the technical architecture, technical project plan, effort estimation and people allocated on the project and get sign-off

2. Ensure all projects are being delivered on-time

3. Take requirement for new projects and jump-start the same externally and internally