Head of Technology - Mintoak

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 Head of Technology, 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

Team Management:

● Manage multiple technology delivery teams

● Lead engineering team(s) to ship high-quality software on predictable

schedules.

● Managing a team of bright engineers, each of whom is building a

production-ready system for various clients

● Augment skills and capability of the engineering team by recruiting and

training the members across levels

● Responsible for coaching, developing, motivating & retaining team

members