Report To: VP Engineering
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Key Responsibilities:
1. A leadership role primarily responsible for leading software engineering group engaged in the development of high availability, fault tolerant, redundant, secure, clustered, and mission critical financial applications with a global customer base including fortune 500 companies
2. Provides technology leadership, initiating programs for research, evaluation, deployment and adoption of tools, technologies and systems aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the development organization
3. Employs technology as a strategic tool to leverage organizational resources, aligned with business goals and strategies and for steering organization wide change initiatives
4. Leads software engineering process initiatives that effectively meet business requirements, cut cost (including time to deliver) and enhance quality and productivity
5. Constantly refines the design and engineering practices, adopting approaches, methodologies, and frameworks that maximize reusability, configurability, maintainability, scalability, security etc.
6. Strives to employ industry standards and best practices
7. Responsible for coaching, training and developing architects and engineers, encouraging innovative design approaches for software problems and challenges
8. Constantly strives to raise the internal benchmarks of quality, engineering and performance
9. Leads by example, actively working to instill a professional and healthy team culture, inspiring team members to learn and grow continuously
10. Liaise with top managers and key business stakeholders including customers for matters related to technology and engineering
11. Develops mechanisms and channels that provide visibility to the management regarding engineering processes, opportunities, risks, programs and initiatives
Qualifications and Competencies:
A degree in Information Technology or related discipline
15+ years in software engineering or information technology with proven record in similar leadership role
Hands-on skills and proven record in designing and deploying complex, high performance, secure, high-availability and fault-tolerant systems with J2EE and relevant frameworks
Excellent grasp on cutting edge tools and technologies with experience of successfully employing technology throughout SDLC
Excellent knowledge and skills of software engineering, processes and quality frameworks
Good project management and change management skills
Proven leadership and team skills
Ability to see the big picture with strong problem solving and analytical skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Drive for accomplishment in a challenging work context
Domain knowledge of electronic transaction processing or stored value cards would be an added plus
Only candidates matching above criteria should forward their resumes at careers@i2cinc.com .
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