COE Leader - Digital Marketing/Experience Practice Team - IT

We have an opportunity for COE Leader for one of our client in Bangalore.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Lead the digital marketing/experience practice team (architects and consultants) for Center of Excellence and Innovation initiatives. Meet billability and project goals for team.

- Build, enable and share best practices of Cloud products with delivery teams. Engage with Customer, Customer Solutions (Delivery, Sales, Partner), Product Management (global), to identify areas of opportunity and design innovative solutions.

- Research on recent technologies (AR/VR, IoT, Blockchain, AI/ML) and trends to deliver the next-in-class solutions and demos

- Display thought leadership and demo solutions at major events - viz. SUMMIT, Symposium, Partner Events, Customer Events, Roadshows with CxOs.

- Design, build and lead custom solution offerings and design GTM Strategy for innovative solutions.

- Architect technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration across multiple customer engagements from definition phase (pre-sales/scoping) through implementation.

- Proficient knowledge in large-scale/web-scale architectures, databases & multi-tier applications

- Excellent executive communication, with ability to present to CxOs and senior leadership

Requirements:

- 15+ years of relevant experience in the digital marketing, technology innovation space

- 10+ years of experience in leading teams, 8+ years of experience in development

- Passionate about building unique Customer Experiences with Cloud stack leveraging best-in-class technology solutions

- Action and results oriented - operating with a strong sense of urgency and purpose - keeping the customer in mind.

- Lead from the front, take accountability and ownership while earning trust of team and customers alike

- Delegate tasks, motivate team and manage stakeholder priorities in a deadline-oriented environment.

- Should be creative, inquisitive and curious to think around technology options under constraints

Technical Requirements:

- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and solution performance

- Understanding of software engineering tools, principles and methodologies

- Excellent hands-on experience in building on web technologies and frameworks (JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS/AngularJS/Electron)

- Experience in designing and developing applications on at least one mobile platform (Android/iOS/Windows) - should be able to manage hybrid apps

- Hands-on experience in integrating and consuming REST APIs and/or implementing APIs

- Familiar with security best practices and authentication models

- Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and/or SQL Server

- Has implementation knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS, EC2, RDS, Kinesis and/or Azure stack

- Nice-to-have: Experience with Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Samza, HDFS, HBase, Hive, Spark, or other distributed technologies