Engineering Vice President - Platform Architecture (10-20 yrs)

Job Opportunity :

The is a senior role which involves leading Fintech and get to work amongst the sharpest of minds in the banking fraternity (Indian and global) in Product and Technology. This is a challenging role which expects the incumbent to work with constant agility with various teams and deliver the best products in the space using effective technology platforms.

As VP of Engineering, you will Lead and build the engineering team, manage product engineering, release and deployment across geographies and work closely with the Product Teams. You will also play an integral role in the evolution of the architecture and product roadmaps in the rapidly growing product suite

- Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision.

- Drive and own multiple technology initiatives for bringing Platform vision to life

- Ensure platforms are designed for scale, availability and performance using microservices architecture and as per API first design principles across geographies

- Review and recommend improvements to operational processes and procedures utilizing automation.

- Responsible for key technical and product decisions.

- Implement best practices to ensure security and availability - devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production applications

- Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, change management and reporting

- Responsible for debugging critical technical issues inside a complex stack involving spring boot microservices, containers, cloud services, etc.

- Work closely with product / project teams as well as clients and help provide relevant inputs from the engineering team.

- Partnering closely with product teams to scope out releases and deliver high quality output.

- Coordinate and direct project execution, detailing plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.

- Collaborating with peers to design and implement new operational capabilities as well as improving existing toolset

- From the technology perspective, mentoring other leads in the organization

- Forge and instill goals and standards for engineering performance

- Implementing best practice engineering methods.

- Mentoring and supporting the team by reinforcing practices such as Test Driven Development, pair programming, refactoring, enhanced observability and documentation

- Present technical solutions, problem areas, proof of concepts to the team or wider audience

- Participate in cross team coordinated development activities

- Create and deliver on the long term road map for engineering efficiency.

- Be the go-to person for non-functional requirements such as scalability, and performance.

- Measure and ensure engineering, and product delivery goals are met, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance

- Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process

- Experience adopting and deploying FOSS tools in production

- Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each engineer system

- Essentially, this role entails combining the best of a project manager AND a technical architect.