VP - Engineering/Chief Technology Officer

Location : Prague/Serbia

Job Responsibilities:

- Work with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for tech team management, balancing the long-term and immediate needs.

- Develop and manage annual and quarterly budgets.

- Oversee data security, management, and governance.

- Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships.

- Manage tech resource allocation, goal/KPI setting, and performance metrics.

- Define the company's overall technology strategy to support business objectives.

- Make infrastructure decisions, ensuring technical excellence, versatility, safety and soundness, resiliency and scalability in the architecting and engineering of product solutions, as well as managing all technical delivery.

- Facilitate the development and implementation of disaster recovery and IT security failure plans.

- Ensure tight collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps.

- Create strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services.

Skills Required:

- Expertise in Core PHP, NodeJS, database management, AWS infrastructure setup and DevOps security.

- Strong department leader with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams.

- Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude.

- Solid understanding of broad technology trends and the ability to align innovation with business goals.

- Strategic smarts, including the ability to identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make tough decisions in complex and dynamic contexts.