Head of Engineering

Job title: Head of Engineering

Department: Information Technology

Location: Goregaon West, Mumbai

Shift timings: General

Reports to: CEO

Works with: Different departments

Key responsibilities:

• Develop, execute and communicate technology strategy and vision with the management, business stakeholders and the team
• Lead strategic planning and prioritization exercise across different functions, resulting in visible milestones and delivery timelines
• Lead, manage and mentor a team of architects, leads, engineers and testers
• Establish transparent risk and governance processes
• Ensure security of organization and clients data and confidential information
• Work closely with architects, leads, engineers and DevOps in establishing standard development and best practices, validate development approach and assumptions that underlie the project and sprint plans
• Build a performance-driven culture and drive it consistently

Required Skills:

• Minimum 15 years of experience in Information technology
• Excellent communication skill
• Knowledge of technological trends in the software development industry
• Experience in AI based transformation, automation
• Hands on experience in working on engineering projects built on Microsoft and Opensource Technologies, AWS cloud a must
• Deep understanding of logical database design and development, especially in Microsoft SQL
• Must have experience in developing mission critical web-based products
• Must be an agile, scrum champion
• Must have thorough understanding of project management methodologies and tools
• Knowledge of open source technologies (PHP/My SQL/Python/Odoo) is preferred
• Must be curious to learn, ambitious to progress, creative to innovate, and the willing to go that extra mile to achieve unprecedented success