Vice President - IT Platform Engineering - IT Captive

Position: VP - IT Platform Engineering (Leading MNC IT Captive)

Role:

- Hands on leadership and end to end ownership of leading and delivering platform and products by leveraging modern technology stack (Microservice, Cloud, DevOps)

- Strategic Thinking - Develop vision, objective, strategy, and initiatives to achieve organizational goals

- Think through global people implications and develop plan to effectively manage change impacts.

- Establish and implement standards, best practices, and ongoing governance.

- Think three to five years ahead into the next business cycle.

- Uses diplomacy and tact, balanced with a sense of urgency to move projects and decisions forward.

- Build alliances with and establish communication bridges with staff, other business units, management, external partners, and customers.

- Develops an explicit understanding of which relationships are most important to the organization and its stakeholders and builds a network prioritizing these relationships.

- Manages in a matrix organization and uses influencing skills to promote strategic plans.

- Develops and maintains a complete and comprehensive set of operational metrics across 4 dimensions (project health, operations, risk and financial) to communicate meaningful information that can be used to inform critical business decisions.

- Develop and inspire a world class team of engineers and technologists fostering the highest quality talent while scaling to meet business challenges

Requirements:

- 20+ yrs experience in progressively increasing software engineering and management roles with experience building and delivering enterprise software platforms

- Strong grasp of modern software engineering principles and practices with track record of rolling out transformational change in organizations

- Deep experience in developing scalable and cloud native applications using emerging technologies, architecture principles

- Experience leading globally distributed, cross-functional organizations and operating in a matrix environment.

- Experience working on low latency, highly scalable, critical systems.

- Advanced knowledge designing for performance, scalability and availability

- Understanding and appreciation for Test Driven Development and Test Automation

- An agile mindset with experience in startups as well as large global enterprises

- Experienced in defining and delivering metrics to drive outcomes and measure progress

- Delivery of M&A including due diligence, rationalization, and integration

- Strategic Thinking: Ability to Develop vision, objective, strategy, and initiatives to achieve organizational goals

- Ability to identify actionable business outcomes while anticipating workforce needs and human capital growth.

- Results-oriented; passionate about achieving strategic goals in established timeframes.

- Exceptional teamwork and ability to foster collaborative relationships across cross-functional teams.

- Understands business implications of decisions. Displays orientation to profitability. Demonstrates knowledge of market and competition.

- Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations across multiple dimensions (BU, verticals, regions, products, systems, etc.) to senior executive stakeholders.

- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, as evidenced by ability to articulate industry and business concepts to diverse audiences.

- Ability to create collateral which resonates across all levels and skill profiles within GT to best articulate strategy and vision.

- Innovative thinker who thrives on ambiguity, while balancing the need for creating compelling content with the dynamic need for internal and external evangelism.

- Known as a creative leader with proven ability to implement new ideas and strategies.

Location: Chennai/ Pune/ Bangalore/ Hyderabad

This position is for a Client of Vertex Corporate Services which is a Leading MNC IT Captive