Associate Vice President Technology

Position Title - AVP Technology

Location - Mumbai

Reporting to - The CEO (the reporting may change as the company evolves further)

Background to the position

Credility is looking for a AVP Technology to work with us to perform following job duties.

•  Design and solve complex technical challenges by building POC or coding the feature independently.
•  Knowledge and experience in Finance/loan/leasing solution architecture, application management
•  Perform Technical feasibility; drive shaping up the product through its life cycle to ensure scalability, performance, security & compliance standards
•  Experience in setting up Architecture and technology vision and adoption of technology advancements into product delivery and produce design documents.
•  Setting best practices across coding process
•  Define the complete technical infrastructure environment
•  Document current, intermediate, and future state technical architectures that support the products vision and mission.
•  Assist product development teams and project team to provide technical leadership and guidance
•  Drive technical issues to closure with problem solving skills and ready to do hands on work
•  Should be well versed with security, performance, maintenance and usability aspects of product designs
•  Stay updated of new technologies and of changes in technologies that affect back end and front-end web development
•  Support architecture governance through use of effective metrics that informs and influences executive decisions.
•  Effectively communicates and influences others towards moving to future state architectures.
•  Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
•  Promote technical standards, guidelines, best practices and quality control measures for enabling and implementing software systems.
•  Keeping a constant check on the quality and effectiveness of the code so that at no point there is a deviation from the industry standard
•  Monitor the technical competencies of the company by looking for new technology and techniques
•  Ability to solve complex IT issues.
•  Ability to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines

Key Result Areas

•  Helping the development teams about the quality of their code, tuning their development and testing processes
•  Providing technical leadership to the dev and ops teams, solving their problems, clearing technical roadblocks they may face from time to time
•  Exploring, testing, and making production-ready new software packages, technical tools and hardware accessories and plug-ins which the team may never have worked with before
•  Defining release engineering processes to release new versions of the Software

Key Performance Indicators

•  Number of problem escalations resolved
•  Contribution towards new components that are explored and integrated into the system
•  Technical leadership in improving software quality through direct assistance to developers and through setting processes and standards
•  Quality of support & guidance provided to developers in technical challenges

DESIRED PROFILE

Qualification & Experience, skills

•  Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in a technical discipline; a masters degree would be a plus
•  Experience in Fintech (Loan Industry/ LOS) and B2B applications
•  Minimum 15+ Years of working experience as a Technical Architect with 5+ years in PHP Laravel
•  He should be comfortable with coding independently.
•  Experience of database design and best coding practices.
•  Strong technical expertise, experience in Product Engineering and service-oriented architecture (SOA) 
•  Experience with Product-centric Organizations Skills: - PHP, Python, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB), Microservices, Azure/AWS Cloud, ELK Stack, PHP Laravel, Nodejs
•  Excellent communication skills (oral and written) including an ability to communicate effectively at senior levels within organization
•  Ability to work independently toward stated business goals

Key Responsibilities

Product Development & Technology Strategy:

•  Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
•  Define and drive the technology roadmap aligned with business goals and industry best practices.
•  Architect and implement scalable solutions using PHP, Python, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB), and microservices.

Research & Development (R&D):

•  Stay abreast of emerging technologies and evaluate their potential impact on Credility’s product offerings.
•  Drive innovation by experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
•  Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the technology team.

Implementation & Technical Support:

•  Act as a technology guide for the Implementation team, providing support and troubleshooting complex technical issues.
•  Ensure seamless integration of Credility's solutions with client environments.
•  Work closely with cross-functional teams to optimize implementation processes.

Training & Mentorship:

•  Develop and conduct training programs for team leads and engineers to enhance their technical proficiency.
•  Foster knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams to improve overall technical capability.
•  Mentor junior engineers and contribute to career development initiatives.

Cloud & Infrastructure Management:

•  Oversee cloud architecture on Azure/AWS, ensuring high availability and security.
•  Manage infrastructure monitoring using ELK Stack and other observability tools.
•  Optimize performance and cost efficiency of cloud resources.

Technical Leadership & Best Practices:

•  Promote clean coding, software design principles, and best practices for development and deployment.
•  Implement DevOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelines for efficient product releases.
•  Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to align technology initiatives with business objectives.

Must have Competencies (only 4)

•  Tenacity in technical matters
•  Analytical skills
•  Quality consciousness
•  Priority towards fundamentals and depths of a subject

Desirable competencies

•  Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Preferred industry as source of talent

•  International product-oriented technology companies
•  For example: Salesforce