Vice President - Technology - IT

- Overall responsible for devising and updating development strategy.

- Create digital roadmap for the organisation and set short, medium- and long-term objectives and time bound actions plans.

- Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.

- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.

- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team.

- Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, enhancing, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.

- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.

- Contribute substantially to innovation and overcome technology limitations to deliver on customer experience.

- Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.

- Initiate, lead and/or support development requirements of the assigned business functions and their delivery in accordance with project goals, time scales and costs.

- Lead, manage and train the team.

- Working closely with vendor partners, business / functional heads, supply chain team etc.

What is Required :

- 12-15 years of experience in building scalable products, platforms and modern technologies OR

- 12-15 years of experience designing and developing complex, interactive consumer facing applications

- At least 5 years managing software development teams of 25-30 members including hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience

- Bachelor or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

- Proven experience as a Delivery Head/ Technology Head or similar leadership role.

- Hands on experience in digital initiatives, big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics and business intelligent solutions

- Ability to convert data into usable modern technology driven solutions

- Apply agile development principles to build organized and versatile code

- Create modern architecture to deliver high quality and scalable services

- Have passion for cloud and various innovative technologies

- Take ownership for problems and deliver consistently high-quality solutions

- Design enhancements to improve efficiency and streamline business and development processes

Technical Competencies:

- Experience with MySQL, PostGes DB, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)

- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch / Solr, Kafka

- Experience with AWS stack & Kubernetes

- Experience with CI/CD processes

- Experience in managing software product planning, development and deliverables

- Experience with various stages of software development life cycle (Design, Development, Testing and Deployment)

- Experience in development for different software stacks (such as Backend stack, Frontend stack, Analytics stack, REST API stacks etc.)

- Experience in working with various open-source components and frameworks used in above stacks

- Experience in cloud technologies especially in software development for cloud deployments using open-source tools

- Experience in software product development with (1) Design using security best practices, (2) Design with service-oriented architectures and micro-services, and (3) Design for high availability and scalability (containerization, clustering for components such as databases and data brokers etc.)

- A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent

Soft Skills :

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely.

- An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong programming and product management skills

- Autonomous, dynamic, and love working in a team.

- Hold a problem solver and team player mindset

- Able to share knowledge and mentor people