Vice President - Engineering - IT

Desired Skillset:

- 15+ year track record of relevant work experience and a Computer Science or a related technical discipline is required

- Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent developers & analyst in fast paced work environment

- Strong leadership skills & Strong project management skills with experience of delivering high quality projects on time.

- Experience in building, leading & managing large multi-engineer projects and mentoring topnotch engineers in consulting companies

- Development and support experience in Web domain with experience on delivering high performance systems.

- Architecting, developing, implementing and maintaining highly available and highly scalable systems on cloud

- Experience with database modelling and development, data mining and warehousing.

Responsibilities:

A. Business focus

- Handle budget planning, spend and tracking for your area of responsibility.

- Set up the processes and OKRs to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.

B. Delivery

- You would be required to own customer deliverables and ensure, along with project

managers, that the project schedules are in line with the expectations set to the customers.

- Partner with delivery team to collate, analyse and present data and drive clear insights to lead decisions that improve KPIs.

C. People management:

- Team building

- Identify the right talent to build the team to solve customer problems

- Build a training program to help tailor the talent for project success

- Mentorship:

- Mentor & grow Engineering team to lead up the projects.

- Provide guidance and mentorship to less-experienced team members.

D. Technical Focus:

- Management knowledge in data system development, software development, deployment. Ability to dive into details with engineers and distil to a high level for executives, customers and non-technical audience.

- Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.

- Align with Technical leadership to influence, guide & champion adoption of best practices to build scalable architecture though process.

- To be able to perceive technical objectives and be able to clearly articulate them for the team.

- Work with the team members on the detailed architecture of the proposed solution/feature and advise on best practices and direction.

- Must be hands on with a few web technologies, but be aware of the changing landscape to accommodate new ones.