Head of Engineering

India Site Leader, Head of Engineering, India

Vectra AI is looking for a Director, Engineering to lead our site in India. This role wil manage and lead the engineering teams in India while driving innovation, and ensuring technical strategies align with business goals. As the Head of Engineering in India, you will be responsible for 3 key components: operations, technology and leadership.

Operations

• Responsible for budgets, people development, and operations, including managing and leading teams, coaching and mentoring.

Technology

• Responsible for technical strategy, roadmap planning, and collaboration on product plans.

Leadership

• Responsible for providing vision, leadership, and direction, including collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop technology strategies.
• Recruit and directly manage software development team; initially ~10 application engineers but with the expectation to grow.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Lead the day-to-day operations in India
• Represent Vectra in India for operations, engineering and support.. Build the brand among and attract, develop and retain great employees, who thrive working in innovative, user-focused, fast paced environment.
• Work with product management to help define engineering requirements
• Participate in architecture discussions and guide the technical direction of the team.
• Ensure smooth delivery of software with automated tests in a modern CI toolchain
• Ensure software quality and security through review processes
• Align technical solutions with customer needs and business goals
• Articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and fostering a collaborative environment
• Drive the cost efficiency of the center, maximizing the India team's throughput & productivity and focus on the inclusive culture of the company
• Foster a culture of continuous growth and improvement through coaching, mentoring, feedback and clear measurable outcomes.
• Hold the teams to high standards across multiple disciplines including engineering, support & operations

Attitudes and Behaviors:

• Focus on impact and results; work on the right things and get them done
• Drive and resourcefulness to persevere and overcome obstacles achieving challenging goals
• Exceptional technical judgment. Willingness and ability to take smart risks and fail forward.
• Ability and motivation to roll up the sleeves and dive deep to help the team when needed
• Track record of successfully solving complex and ambiguous problems
• High integrity and ability to positively collaborate with others

Qualifications and Experience

• 10+ years of related industry experience
• 5+ years of technical management experience
• Excellent people, technical and communication skills. Ability to relate across multiple levels and across cultures.
• Business and product mindset. Ability to identify, evaluate and convey engineering and technology choices and trade-offs.
• Ability to understand technology to translate data into key business metrics and decision making.
• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering
• Experience as a scrum master in an Agile environment
• Understanding of architecture and experience with REST APIs, databases, and other common technologies
• Unix/Linux proficiency
• Experience with a source control system, preferably Git
• Strong cloud knowledge, preferably AWS