Svp Engineering Job in Knoldus Inc

Job Description

The senior vice president of engineering sits at the top of a company along with other executives. Their primary duty is to oversee and direct engineering development teams, ensuring that projects are done on time, design requirements are met, and company standards are upheld.

As the second-in-command of the engineering sector of the company, a senior vice president of engineering makes a bulk of the decisions in the development process. They may also recommend improvements to increase efficiency, participate in recruitment activities, and prepare budgets. Aside from that, they report directly to the CEO or president of the department regarding developments, issues, recommendations, and other relevant matters.

Description

Do you have deep experience in large-scale software development? Can you look at complex software development processes and find ways to simplify? Do you still love the technology, even though you are an executive now?

The most important pillar of our company is software engineering. Most companies engineer software product-by-product, inevitably delivering different quality results for each product. We have built a software engineering platform that delivers the same high-quality standards for every product, with a release every week.

This job is all about designing and improving the way we develop software, which naturally improves the quality of every product we make.

What you will be doing

• Deep-Diving into our software development platform, analyzing quality failures and improvement opportunities all the way to the technical root cause. Sometimes you will do your own deep-dive analysis. More often, you will be reviewing the analysis done by less experienced executives, looking for patterns and providing coaching to improve the quality of your team s work.

• Making important technical decisions that improve the quality of every product in our portfolio. You ll start with deep analysis of specific product issues, then look for platform-wide opportunities to fix the issue not just once, but permanently and for every product.

What you will NOT be doing

• You will not be doing project management. We create clear roles, structure the work, and leverage automation to eliminate project management overhead.

• You will not be doing HR and administrative management. We have systematized the work activities of every role, so you can focus on the execution of your important decisions. You ll be amazed at how effectively the Engineering team carries out your direction!

• You will not be overseeing steady-state operations. This is a continuous improvement role. You ll never stop making the platform better!

Key Responsibilities

• Review and approve deep dive analyses from less experienced executives

• Provide coaching to the executive team, to improve the quality of their analysis

• Make important technical decisions to improve the quality of the entire software development platform

Candidate Requirements

• Technical/quantitative university degree

• Hands-on software development experience and still super technical

• Executive experience running enterprise software development

Nice to have

• Experience in a shared-services or centralized environment

About Company

Knoldus engineers digital systems with a product mindset to deliver an objective competitive advantage to the business. We modernize enterprises through cutting-edge digital engineering by leveraging Functional Programming (Scala, Rust, Java) and Fast Data (Spark, Flink) ecosystems.

Our mission is to provide reactive and streaming fast data solutions that are message-driven, elastic, resilient, and responsive to build High-Performance Systems. Knoldus is fortified by an expansive network of certified strategic partners like Lightbend (Scala ecosystem), IBM, Datastax(Cassandra and Graph ecosystem) , Confluent(Kafka ecosystem), and Databricks(Spark in the Big Data space); helps enterprise clients including many Fortune 500 companies to create the next-generation capabilities that set them apart and create new opportunities. With a team of 175+ seasoned experts,

Knoldus is headquartered in Canada with delivery centers in Chicago, New Delhi, Noida, and Singapore Some of our marquee clients include Google, HPE, EY, Elsevier, BoA, Cisco, VMWare, Huawei, Philips and quite a few silicon valley startups which have gone from being 2 people companies to 50 million dollars + companies Our process focus: Strongly Agile. Knoldus software development model called Knolway is based upon the best Agile practices built on the combination of Scrum and XP where concepts such as Domain Driven Design, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, and Pair Programming are used extensively.