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
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