Senior VP - Technology

Job Description:

Strategy & Planning

•  In partnership with the company’s founders, lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all products and solutions.

• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s services. 

•  Participate as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization’s resources are used responsibly, particularly in the areas of software development, office networks, and computers, and telecommunications. 

• Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs. 

• Establish a governance process that meets government, partner, and company expectations for customer information privacy.

• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company’s data and servers. 

• Communicate the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders. 

Implementation & Deployment

• Select and set up a software revision control system and repository (in the absence of a system administrator). 

• Select and set up web-based internal communications systems, such as a wiki, blog, chat room, project management, and bug tracking systems (in the absence of a system administrator). 

• Collaborate with the founders and potential customers to develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications that describe the implementation of the company’s services as a web application. 

• Collaborate with a User Experience Designer and potential customers to prepare wireframes or mockups of a prototype of the company’s web application. 

•  Refine the company’s software development methodology. 

• Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen based on user stories and the User Experience design. 

• Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards. 

• Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will implement the application. 

• Establish and supervise the software development process, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the selected software development methodology. 

• Conduct code reviews and specification conformance testing as defined by the selected software development methodology.

•  Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing. 

• Review and approve proposed development releases and manage the release process. 

• Evaluate and select web application hosting providers. 

• Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers. 

•  Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production. 

• Establish a process to integrate customer service and support with the software engineering process to support the resolution of customer issues and improve application usability. 

Operational Management

•  Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely (including reading your peers’ blogs!). 

• Define and communicate company values and standards for acquiring or developing systems, equipment, or software within the company. 

• Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization. 

• Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization’s investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders about the company’s technological vision, opportunities, and challenges. 

• Ensure company technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner. 

• Supervise recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all development staff following the company hiring process, personnel policies, and budget requirements. 

Knowledge & Experience:

• Demonstrated ability to envision web-based services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems. 

• Min. 15 years of experience managing enterprise application development. 

• Hands-on experience coding in more than one currently popular web application framework. 

•  Familiar with more than one software development methodology. 

• Ability to discern user requirements and develop specifications. 

• Has contributed to one or more open-source projects. 

• Skill with CSS, XHTML, one or more Javascript frameworks, and AJAX. 

• Knowledge of web standards. 

• Exposure to server administration and web server configuration. 

Personal Attributes 

• ? Proven leadership ability. 
• ? Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously. 
• ? Excellent written and oral communication skills. 
• ? Excellent interpersonal skills. 
• ? Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• ? Exceptionally self-motivated and directed. 
• ? Keen attention to detail. 
• ? Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities. 
• ? Exceptional service orientation. 
• ? Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Desired Profile / Criteria / Skills :

Offered Benefits / Facilities :

•  Leading Edtech Firm
• 5 Day week
• All benefits available like Medical Insurance etc.