Director of Development

• Reports to: CTO
• Key interactions: Sales Department, MA Department, P&C Department, Operations Department

Job Purpose/Role Description:

We are looking for a Director of Development to provide technical leadership in all aspects of our business. You will communicate with employees, stakeholders and customers to ensure our company’s technologies are used appropriately.

Strategic thinking and strong business acumen are essential in this role. We expect you to be well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts.

Working directly with the CTO, you will act as a technology and business expert, making decisions impacting current and future operations. As the Development Director, you will oversee all technology and technological resources, establish the technology vision, strategies, and growth plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop front end website architecture
• Develop back-end website applications
• Create servers and databases for functionality.
• Design and develop APIs.
• Meet both technical and consumer needs.
• Engage in all aspects of software development, including architecture, documentation, testing, deployment…
• Stay abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
• Improve existing tools, methods, and data strategy by providing feedback and feature enhancement
• Track, analyse and monitor technology performance metrics
• Provide technical leadership at the enterprise level and serve an integral role in operations and business development.
• Develop objectives and strategies for the implementation of innovative solutions while optimizing existing systems, applications and information
• Lead the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of the software
• Work on team empowerment to grow team leads and enhance their skills for a better delivery in quantity, timeline and quality
• Ensure tight collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps
• Participate to committee’s meetings when necessary

Qualifications And Experience

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent
• Proven experience as a Research & Development Director or similar leadership role

Key Attributes/Main Competencies

• Strong programming skills
• Proficiency with modern software engineering concepts like agile development, version control, unit testing, test driven development etc.
• Proficiency with web applications using Web Services, HTML5, CSS, Java Script and modern UI frameworks such as Angular JS etc.
• Experience developing applications with cloud technologies such as AWS
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Strategic Thinking and Planning
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Strong business sense and industry expertise.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver against tight deadlines
• Excellent mentoring, coaching and people management skills

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