Vice President - Technology

Role - Vice President - Technology

Location : Gurgaon

Summary:

The Vice President - Technology reports to the Leadership Team / Board and is responsible the company's technology strategy and implementation. As a technology leader, the person needs to be able to see IT at macro and micro levels simultaneously within the company. The role necessitates a hands-on approach, with periodic on-call responsibility. Responsibilities highlighted in blue are more appropriate for start-up companies.

Strategic:

- Report to the Leadership Team / Board as an active part of the senior management team.

- Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

- Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

- Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

- Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business' technological vision.

- Work as an industry thought-leader, representing and evangelizing the company at conferences, on-line, off-line and with social media, and through working with and steering relevant industry bodies.

- Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

- Prepare and test disaster recovery plans, and contribute to the broader business continuity plan.

Tactical :

- Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT.

- Where possible reduce operational and capital spending on an ongoing basis, through use of Open Source technology, cost-effective procurement, efficiency gains, and through coordination of activities and resources with parent and group companies

- Manage recruitment, development, retention, and organization of operations, development and IT teams, keeping staff focused, motivated and growing into future technical leaders, whilst satisfying budget and policy.

- Ensure uninterrupted delivery of IT services by defining and managing against external service level agreements with suppliers and internal agreements with end users.

- Where appropriate, patent or secure intellectual property by other means.

- Own and manage the development, operations and IT methodologies, including procurement, backup, email, internal groupware, IT project management, source-code management (SCM), bug tracking, deployment, release management, monitoring & performance, quality assurance (QA), application profiling, coding standards & review, management information (MI), business and web analytics, security, configuration management, architecture, infrastructure & hosting, intellectual property and networking.

- Ensure IT activity falls within applicable laws and regulations (DPA, PCI-DSS, SOX).

- Where developing a new system in a start-up environment, work with the business to develop use cases, user stories, user experience design and wire-frames. Work with others to produce graphic design for prototype. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions.

- Own and manage the internal IT customer support process, and externally where appropriate.

Experience :

- Minimum 15+ Yrs of Experience .

- Five years' experience directing IT; a further five years' software engineering management or operations management experience; and two years' experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment.

- Demonstrable experience of each of the following: data warehousing, enterprise applications, networking & hosting, telecommunications, recruitment, outsourcing,

- IT governance, project management and software engineering.

- Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices.

- Past responsibility for operational and capital budgets in excess of $1M, confidence with budgeting and spend planning.

- Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects.

- Ability to explain to the following technologies, standards and regulations to non-technical staff: AJAX, UNIX, RFC, W3C, HTTP, RDBMS, SCM, SEM, PBX, SEO, P3P, PCI-DSS, DPA, XP.

Personal :

- Entrepreneurial attitude.

- Ability to excel under pressure.

- Ability to prioritize effectively in the face of business uncertainty.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills, for technical and non-technical audiences.

- Strong problem-solving and motivational skills.