Position: Director/VP of Technology (Global Practice Head)
Experience: 20+ Years
Location: Bangalore / Remote
Job Description:
The Director will own the design, and implementation/migration of large & complex applications. This is an exciting technical leadership position in charge of designing & building cloud infrastructure , DevOps, Data, App Dev, Automation, Quality Engineering Practices. The role is not only to be a trusted advisor to our clients for driving the next generation innovation but also a leader in advancing the group's capabilities into the future. Lead the creation of value proposition and USP in Practice capability / CoE. Provide thought leadership on the domain & mentorship to team. Lead innovation & ideation by leveraging evolving technologies to identify opportunities of efficiencies in driving business excellence.
The role is critical and a core building block to our core market offerings in Media Communication, Healthcare, Technology consulting and digital transformation. As an evangelist for these practices, you will collaborate with leaders in various divisions, industries and geographies, in developing & implementing solutions for our clients.
Our environment and culture fosters growth and presents exciting opportunities to hone your skills in the industries that we support, and in business problem-solving. You will be responsible for software from ideas to codes and from tests to operations. You will make an impact on our clients and their businesses directly through your work and will see your ideas become realities. You will sharpen your technical skills, expand your collaborative methods, and develop a flair for leadership.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Pre-sales head for Technology business: speaking with the customers in understanding their problem statement, translating them into solutions, constructing proposals including commercials and presenting to the Clients. Desired technology areas: Cloud and Digital transformation with the abilities around Integration with Enterprise software.
- Practice head experienced in practice building that involves deciding on GTM services, developing differentiators including re-usable accelerators, competency building with people, establishing product partnerships with product companies etc. Desired technology areas: Cloud and Digital transformation/Engineering
- Leadership: Lead a team of Practice Heads and Architects across Cloud, Data, Digital Engineering and Automation
- Lead generation and conversion: Experienced in generating new opportunities through multiple methods, carrying revenue targets and proposal conversion targets
- Rich Experience in managing and building practices around cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Data, App Dev, Automation, Quality Engineering and IOT.
- Strategizing, designing and implementing highly efficient solution on Cloud (Amazon Web Services, Azure or GCP) for security, resilience, performant, networking, availability, Blue-green deployments in context of business application.
- Data Driven and automation solutions.
- Security hardening of cloud infrastructure application/web server against known/unknown vulnerabilities.
- Assess client needs and requirements to ensure appropriate approach to solve client challenges
- Recommend right Technological tools required for the solution
- Expert in Planning Design, cost and effort estimations and Profitability of practices within the organization.
- Expert in proposal conversion by right Technological offerings.
- Experience in cloud comparison & recommendation
- Experience in Cloud (Public & Private) cost optimization
- Designing and set up automated backup and restoration of application/web servers/databases/datalakes to object storage like S3.
- Deliver best in class operations tooling & practices, including CI, CD, chatops, RBA, and RPA
- Writing infrastructure as code for public or private clouds and implement modern cloud Integration architecture using
- Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible )
- SCM (TFS or GIT)
- CI tools (Jenkins or Bamboo)
- Azure Resource Manager, Cloud formation or Google Cloud Deployment Manager
- Scripting language: Python, Bash and Shell
- Container services like ECS, ACS, GCE or Kubernetes
- Architecting and implementing end to end monitoring solution in cloud (Nagios, Zabbix, AppD, CWatch etc) including billing
- Understands compliance, safe harbor and law of land
- Design for failover, high availability, MTTR , MTTF and MTBF
- Must have understanding of SDLC
- Designing and implementing software engineering processes, improve efficiency
- Implementing shift left strategy
- Monitor application, systems and infrastructure health
- Report on business and processes metrics
- Balance governance, ownership and freedom against reliability
- Evaluate the undifferentiated heavy lifting of operating in house solutions versus adopting cloud native services (Public vs. Private)
- Deliver best in class operations tooling & practices, including CI, CD and chatops
- Work closely with Security Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and SRE
Qualifications:
- Overall experience of 18+ years with major understanding into Data, Cloud, Infrastructure, DevOps, Automation and Digital transformation.
- 5+ years of working in Cloud (Public, & Private) with extensive knowledge on one or more Public Cloud.
- Bachelor or Master degree (Science or Engineering preferred)
- Experience in DevOps transformation and implemented methodologies in enterprise and/or projects
- Delivery experience in solutioning, implementing or migrating a large CMS / E-commerce / Enterprise/Custom workload to Cloud.
- Proven ability to plan and execute change on an enterprise scale, with outcomes that fulfil the original business case
- Can look through lenses of business, functional, and technology.
- Can manage multiple practices and projects simultaneously; able to evaluate progress or mitigate risks.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies, various platforms, tools and products and their respective applications
- Have worked in a client-facing role or at a client location
- Awareness of industry trends and directions and its impact on IT services
- Total knowledge of delivery management, various delivery models etc.
- Delivery, stakeholder & client management
- Develop, motivate, empower, and evaluate individual contributors and grow their professional, leadership, and technical skills
- Provide thought leadership for the development of Cloud COE agenda and COE management.
- Grow the COE team in India, through internal and external hiring.
- Establish relationships with key stakeholders across Global delivery organization to strengthen these practices.
- Experience in building/supporting/testing/operating IaaS platforms
