Senior Director/Head - Software Development - IT

Key Responsibilities :

- This candidate will drive new technologies and best practices into the organization and be capable of managing teams across many projects, a variety of technologies and internationally distributed.

- Develop and execute on a vision for delivering high quality releases of the products & platform

- Leads a team of software developers and managers, establishing development practices and standards.

- Builds and retains productive teams through strong recruitment, mentoring and career management.

- Works closely with project managers and the product management team on distilling and challenging functional requirements into technical designs that result in highly scalable and high-end quality products

- Helps maintain production applications and tackle high profile customer escalations

- Plans and executes project work plans across various projects and international distribution

- Minimizes exposure on project risks

- Accountable for delivery of projects within schedules and timelines.

- Ensures consistent software design and implementation methodologies, together with the Software Systems Architect, and promotes code reuse throughout the development staff

- Evaluates engineering staff and works with the team to improve skills and software engineering processes.

Qualifications & Experience Requirements :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, during which you have developed extremely strong Computer Science fundamentals and analytical abilities.

- Minimum of 20 years of overall enterprise level software development, with 5 or more years of experience managing in the software industry, shipping enterprise software

- 3 or more years of similar experience

- Extensive software engineering development and design experience with complex and highly scalable products using multiple technologies and languages

- Experience with software development methodologies, agile software development values and practices, especially Scrum or Lean Software Development preferred.

- This candidate will have an outstanding track record of developing highly scalable and distributed software applications with excellent quality.