Chief Technology Officer leads the Technology and software development department and is responsible for overseeing all the Company’s development projects.
Responsibilities
- Manage 50+ simultaneous projects on different tech stacks and is aware of all the nuances
- Deal with projects as stand-alone and sometimes conflicting start-ups
- Successfully manage development risks (going over budget against meeting deadlines, etc.)
- Implement the principles of building scalable, fault tolerant, resilient architectures and distributed platforms
- Maintain technical debt under pressure of product/business owners
- Implement full development life cycle throughout the company projects
- Act as liaison between business executives and development; act as an advocate for development teams
- Understand and implement cyber security processes
Requirements & Qualifications
- Experience with Big Data
- Leading high-load projects
- Extended knowledge of Amazon services
- Hands-on data science knowledge and collaborating on marketing initiatives
- Hands-on experience of IT infrastructure cost optimization
- Knowledge of structural transformation and decomposition of projects, expertise to select technical processes and stacks to maintain the timeframes and budget
- P&L ownership experience
- Experience of leading e-commerce project development
- Experience of working with multiple offshore development offices
- Familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, Iterative Waterfall methodologies
- Web and Mobile software development background
- Skilled and persuasive negotiator
- Charismatic leader