Director of Engineering

4 weeks ago

Vaughan ON, Canada TechBlocks India Full time

TechBlocks is a leading global digital product development firm. Weunify strategy, design and technology with continuous growth-centricdigital product engineering solutions for F500 companies and globalbrands including Bell Telecom, Bausch Health (Previously ValeantPharma), Honda Motors, AES Corp, Thomson Reuters Carswell, FirstAmerican and Colliers International.

Our passion is empowering innovators and change-makers at everylevel of the product life-cycle. We specialize in building customizedbusiness apps that allow organizations and enterprises to improvetheir efficiency, collaboration and user experience.

Based in Toronto with offices in U.S., and India we work withclients around the planet. What separates us from the rest is ourability to help businesses transform into a digital business withour consulting, engineering and post go-live, go-to-market services.

If you have a passion for innovation and looking for theopportunity to work on leading-edge projects, then join our team.

Job Description

This is a full-time position for Director – “Architecture and Engineering” specializing in the latest web, mobile and cloud technologies, reporting to CTO and actively working with our global delivery teams in Canada and India. We are looking to hire a Director who can lead development teams (remote and on-site). You are a passionate technologist and geek with solid application design fundamentals for clients, servers and the middle tiers. You love playing with the latest and greatest frameworks and take pride in quality and agility.

What's In It For You?

TechBlocks is headquartered in Toronto, Canada (an open office concept), with additional offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Hyderabad. We offer a great culture, an excellent base salary with bonuses/commissions, full benefits and paid vacations. We welcome you to wear our client-first attitude and have fun, fulfilling business goals with technology solutions. Enjoy the industry's best compensation and work culture. Visit us, Meet us, Let’s check each other out.

Delivery Capability and Key Responsibilities

  • Lead complex design sessions and work closely with customers and business partners to establish requirements to develop a given solution.

  • Identify options for potential solutions and assess them for technical and business suitability.

  • Provide expertise to customers to develop digital solutions to meet identified business needs

  • Support the delivery of solutions by assisting the programmers in their tasks.

  • Understand and give guidance on the implementation of concepts of unit testing, system testing, performance testing, and user acceptance testing.

  • Expert at project management concepts may be responsible for defining software development plans, including scoping, scheduling and implementation.

  • Make key decisions, including determining the most appropriate platform to complete application development requests and code quality assurance for the team.

  • Develop processes and procedures to organize workflow that ensures output quality, precision, and timeliness.

  • Handle multiple demands and competing priorities while ensuring deliverables are met.

  • Prepare accurate estimates for all development-related tasks and can validate estimates of others.

  • Could you provide leadership, including technical mentoring, architecture validation, and support for other team members?

  • Work with HR and Recruitment teams and be a crucial part of talent acquisition, career planning and retention (screening, onboarding, assignments and mentoring).
Leadership.

  • You are a strategic and analytical thought leader.

  • Expertly take a big-picture approach to system and application design based on in-depth business requirements analysis while keeping track of the short and long-term impact.

  • Experience managing projects from end to end, including evaluating vendors and partners, budgeting, resource allocation, setting up deliverables and communicating progress.

  • Results-driven, continuously seeking opportunities to optimize technical performance.

  • Have outstanding decision-making skills and can pivot your approach based on metrics and changing needs.

  • Understand the impact of technology (cost, timing, performance) on business theory, business processes, management, budgeting, and business office operations.
Interpersonal skills.

  • Can inspire and guide the work of a team, providing insights and mentorship to elevate individual performance and group effectiveness.

  • Plan and present strategic recommendations to C-level audiences and effectively communicate with fast-paced, highly cross-functional teams with multiple stakeholders.

  • Research the competitive landscape to determine how to create a differentiated digital solution;

  • Contribute to customer's direction and strategy and influence decision-making based on information gained from deep-dive and ad hoc analysis;
Requirements
  • 15+ Years of experience required for the position

  • Expert knowledge and experience working on MS Azure, AWS or GCP public cloud.

  • Hybrid Workplace

  • Competitive benefits plan

  • Generous paid time off

  • One of the fastest growing companies in N. America means many growth opportunities 

  • Quarterly rewards, Regular team and company events and travel opportunities

  • Company sponsored and promoted thought leaders amongst the community of thought leaders and training opportunities.
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