Avp - Technology

**Location -**Mumbai

**Reporting to -**The CEO (the reporting may change as the company evolves further)

**Background to the position**

Credility is looking for a **AVP Technology** to work with us to perform following job duties.
- Design and solve complex technical challenges by building POC or coding the feature independently.
- Perform Technical feasibility; drive shaping up the product through its life cycle to ensure scalability, performance, security & compliance standards
- Experience in setting up Architecture and technology vision and adoption of technology advancements into product delivery and produce design documents.
- Setting best practices across coding process
- Define the complete technical infrastructure environment
- Document current, intermediate, and future state technical architectures that support the product’s vision and mission.
- Assist product development teams and project team to provide technical leadership and guidance
- Drive technical issues to closure with problem solving skills and ready to do hands on work
- Should be well versed with security, performance, maintenance and usability aspects of product designs
- Stay updated of new technologies and of changes in technologies that affect back end and front-end web development
- Support architecture governance through use of effective metrics that informs and influences executive decisions.
- Effectively communicates and influences others towards moving to future state architectures.
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
- Promote technical standards, guidelines, best practices and quality control measures for enabling and implementing software systems.
- Keeping a constant check on the quality and effectiveness of the code so that at no point there is a deviation from the industry standard
- Monitor the technical competencies of the company by looking for new technology and techniques
- Ability to solve complex IT issues.
- Ability to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines

**Key Result Areas**
- Helping the development teams about the quality of their code, tuning their development and testing processes
- Providing technical leadership to the dev and ops teams, solving their problems, clearing technical roadblocks they may face from time to time
- Exploring, testing, and making production-ready new software packages, technical tools and hardware accessories and plug-ins which the team may never have worked with before
- Defining release engineering processes to release new versions of the Software

**Key Performance Indicators**

- Number of problem escalations resolved
- Contribution towards new components that are explored and integrated into the system
- Technical leadership in improving software quality through direct assistance to developers and through setting processes and standards
- Quality of support & guidance provided to developers in technical challenges

**DESIRED PROFILE**

**Qualification & Experience, skills**
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a technical discipline; a master’s degree would be a plus
- Minimum 15+ Years of working experience as a Technical Architect with 5+ years in PHP Laravel
- He should be comfortable with coding independently.
- Experience of database design and best coding practices.
- Strong technical expertise, experience in Product Engineering and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Experience with Product-centric Organizations Skills: - PHP, Python, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB), Microservices, Azure/AWS Cloud, ELK Stack, PHP Laravel, Nodejs
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written) including an ability to communicate effectively at senior levels within organization
- Ability to work independently toward stated business goals

**Key Responsibilities**

**Product Development & Technology Strategy**:

- Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
- Define and drive the technology roadmap aligned with business goals and industry best practices.
- Architect and implement scalable solutions using PHP, Python, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB), and microservices.

**Research & Development (R&D)**:

- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and evaluate their potential impact on Credility’s product offerings.
- Drive innovation by experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the technology team.

**Implementation & Technical Support**:

- Act as a technology guide for the Implementation team, providing support and troubleshooting complex technical issues.
- Ensure seamless integration of Credility's solutions with client environments.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to optimize implementation processes.

**Training & Mentorship**:

- Develop and conduct training programs for team leads and engineers to enhance their technical proficiency.
- Foster knowledge sharing and collabora