Job Description
Position: Director of Engineering and Delivery
Exp: 15+ Years
Location: Vaughan, Ontario
About TechBlocks
TechBlocks is a leading global digital product development firm. We unify strategy, design and technology with continuous growth-centric digital product engineering solutions for F500 companies and global brands, including Bell Telecom, Bausch Health (Previously Valeant Pharma), Honda Motors, AES Corp, Thomson Reuters Carswell, First American and Colliers International.
Our passion is empowering innovators and change-makers at every level of the product life cycle. We specialize in building customized business apps that allow organizations and enterprises to improve their efficiency, collaboration and user experience.
Based in Toronto with offices in the U.S. and India, we work with clients around the planet. What separates us from the rest is our ability to help businesses transform into digital businesses with our consulting, engineering and post-go-live, go-to-market services.
Job Overview
This is a full-time position for Director of Engineering and Delivery 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. 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.
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.
- Provide leadership, including technical mentoring, architecture validation, and support for other team members.
- Strong experience in Agile development practices.
- 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
- Graduate in Engineering discipline. MS, MBA preferred.
- 15+ Years of experience required for the position.
- Expert knowledge and experience working on MS Azure, AWS or GCP public cloud.
- Hands-on experience working with Microsoft.NET Stack or Java, Microservices, API, open-source stack, and current leading-edge UI and JavaScript framework.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary & Performance-Based Incentives
- Monthly Rewards & Recognition
- Upskilling & Cross-Skilling Opportunities
- Opportunities to Work on Cutting-Edge Projects
- Personal Client Engagement
- Flexible Work Environment
- Inclusive & Collaborative Culture
- Career Growth & Internal Mobility
