Director of Development

The R&D Director should have professional qualifications with extensive work experience and advanced people management/interpersonal skills. This is a leadership position, with high accountability, responsible for identifying its function’s linkages across the organization and developing appropriate processes and road maps for the function. S/he should be an expert in Agile Product development with in-depth knowledge of multiple products and able to evaluate, choose and implement processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile development group while reporting to our VP R&D
• Contribute to system architecture and product roadmap
• Mentoring and supporting Scrum team leaders and developers with their day-to-day work
• Manage outsourcing and communication with technology partners

Requirements 

• BSc in Engineering/Computer Science
• At least 8 years of Scrum development management track record through all phases of development, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• At least 5 years of training and leading Scrum team leaders through all phases of development
• At least 5 years of Experience building customer-facing applications deployed on a cloud environment (AWS, Google, or similar)
• Passionate about new technologies
• Excellent collaborative, team building, relationship skills
• Strategic and thought leadership, problem-solving, decision-making skills
• Self–motivated and driven to succeed, focused on results, and passionate about the job