Avant Garde - Vice President - IT Infrastructure (18-22 yrs)

The candidate would play a key role in the IT leadership team of the organization and would have the opportunity to contribute to every facet of IT management. Since the role is in the IT Department of a user organization, it offers an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to build/enhance knowledge & skills across domains as well as technical areas like application software lifecycle, IT infrastructure, information/cyber security, BCP/DR as well as other important functions such as governance, risk and compliance for the IT Department.

The core responsibilities of the candidate would be in Application Software Development/ Maintenance and operational and Production Support for a portfolio of applications, which in turn entails the supervision of in-house teams as well as vendor teams. The portfolio of applications would include critical Trading and Settlement Systems.

The candidate would be required to engage with business units and manage the deliveries in the most optimum manner from quality, time & cost perspectives. Thus sound technical capabilities in the application development lifecycle coupled with domain knowledge in the areas of Trading / Risk Management / Settlement Systems would be highly desirable.

Given that the position is part of the IT leadership team, it is expected that the candidate will shoulder wider responsibilities, for which the candidate needs to possess knowledge & experience in areas such as IT governance, IT infrastructure, Information/Cyber Security, BCP/DR process, etc.

Experience :

- Around 20 years of relevant experience in leading the development and management of mission-critical BFSI applications.

- Doman-centric application development experience with Exchanges / Capital Markets Firms / Bank Treasuries or Front Office applications.

- Experience in the design and development of internet-facing applications and web technologies

- Experience in projects involving fresh implementation, large migrations, technology revamp

- Vendor management, contract management

- Interaction with senior executives/ Directors of the Board in a formal environment.

Technology Knowledge/Exposure :

- Mission-critical BFSI applications architecture with complex inter-process communication

- Unix / Linux operating systems

- .Net / Java / C programming languages

- MS SQL / Oracle / PostgreSQL Databases

- Message queue technologies (IBM MQ / Kafka / Others)