Urgent: Director, eCommerce Engineering

Job Description

Title: Director, eCommerce Engineering

Location: Chennai

Type: Full Time/Hybrid

We are looking for a Director, eCommerce Engineering to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of next-generation eCommerce platforms. The person will be responsible to build an entire team for the purpose.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver innovative, complex features and enhancements for the eCommerce platform working
- cross functionally with product management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, operations, and other
- product development teams.
- Provide an architectural strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals by collaborating with
- product management, enterprise architecture, and business partners.
- Focus on providing eCommerce, system integration, and related technology expertise and
- thought leadership on design, architecture, and platform build out of the customer facing as well
- as backend solutions.
- Develop micro services for eCommerce platform public cloud and integrate third party solutions to
- build a composable architecture.
- Lead managers and engineers and interacts with other cross functional teams like Product
- Management, Project Management, and Operations teams etc. to develop innovative solutions
- that meet eCommerce market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability,
- reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals and
- principles.
- Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of
- the functional area, business strategies and the company's goals in addition to industry
- knowledge.
- Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, performance, resilience, security, etc.) in your
- team and for the entire organization.
- Drive the definition and adoption of world class engineering, software development automation,
- testing and deployment processes.
- Build a customer focused, data driven innovation mindset cross-functional. Strong interpersonal
- skills to drive positive change.
- Bring new ideas, trends and ways of working to enable technological transformation.
- Develop AI-based solutions to enhance customer experience and conversion.

Requirements:

- Strong technical depth and vision for ecommerce into developing the next generation platforms
- for scalability/reliability.
- Strong analytical, data-driven decision making and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Ability to coordinate multiple product and technical teams by removing roadblocks and solving
- complex problems collaboratively.
- Ability to navigate large organizations, develop strong business partner relationships and build
- networks.
- Outstanding influencing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated success working within cross-functional teams, effective project management &
- analytical/decision-making skills.
- Experience with open-source technologies, public/private cloud technologies.
- Self-starter, high-energy, with the ability to execute business objectives.
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills are important.
- Visionary executive with solid experience overseeing a team of leaders who manage managers.

Basic Qualifications needed:

- 15+ years of experience in a related field OR a master's degree & 12+ years of experience in a related field.
- 10+ years of experience building and leading a high performing organization.
- Previous experience building and scaling large ecommerce systems.
- Front-end and back-end experience in building and scaling high performing ecommerce systems.
- JAVA, REACT, event driven methodology, no-sql databases technology skills.
- Exposure to AI-based technologies is a plus.

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