Vice President - Engineering - IT

Job requirement:

- Bachelors in Engineering

- 12+ years of relevant work experience

- Should have managed large high quality technology team directly or through hierarchy

- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented design and concepts

- Expert knowledge of Java and Web-technologies

- Should have Experience in Artificial intelligence,Big Data skills.

- Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, databases, operating systems, etc.

- Expertise in Java, JVM internals, JMM and GC algorithms

- Experience in designing and implementing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment. Preferably in the ecommerce/Retail systems or mobile software space

- Expertise with more than one of these technologies & frameworks: ESB, API Gateway, Kafka or Similar solutions, Real Time Streaming Solutions - Storm, Spark Streaming, Samza, Cassandra/HBase

- Experience in building SOA based solutions, PAAS, SAAS highly desirable

- Exposure to NOSQL systems, distributed caching, failure detection algorithms & application failover strategies, Internals of Linux or Unix, load balancing schemes & virtualization desirable

Responsibilities:

- Be the technology leader to determine strategic directions for Product Engineering group

- Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, testing and rollout of a product or family of products/solution

- Provide hands-on guidance to the team on software architecture, design and development to solve complex problems. Own the critical modules ( technology and functional aspects)

- Constantly motivate, mentor and guide the engineering team members

- Devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production applications

- Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process