Position: VP Engineering / CTO
Company: Datagrok
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

In this position you will be accountable for the delivery and implementation of Datagrok products, developing fit-for-purpose applications, fostering productive relationships with customers, facilitating communications with partner organizations, and developing and driving improvement plans.

**Delivery Responsibilities**

●  Partner with stakeholders to design solutions that deliver the optimal balance of the product vision, cost, time-to-value, and complexity to maintain and support
●  Coordinate delivery of multiple projects, either internal or customer-facing
●  Partner with DevOps to automate the deployment for infrastructure and application components
●  Build and drive the strategy and vision of the Delivery Team. Ensure availability of appropriate resources for systems support and project-based work

**Product Responsibilities**

●  Distill third party feedback and coordinate cross-functionally to develop product features
●  Be involved in all aspects of the product development cycle, including product definition, usability testing, UX/UI, backlog management, documentation, release planning, and project schedule management
●  Develop training materials
●  Optional :) Oversee the development of some of the core platform capabilities, such as AI/ML, high-performance computing, interactive visualizations, AI-based drug design & discovery

**People Responsibilities**

●  Build, coach, mentor, and grow the Delivery Team
●  Appropriately structure the delivery teams in a manner that optimally delivers on the product roadmap, customer support, and customer projects
●  Enable and support a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, team, execution, and continuous improvement

**Requirements:**

●  Must have deep knowledge of software engineering principles and practices; technical proficiency in multiple software engineering domains 
●  Strong product instinct: you intuitively understand why product ideas will be effective
●  Must be able to quickly understand complex systems such as existing custom applications and integrations, and 3rd party partner systems
●  Must be able to develop and manage technology roadmaps
●  Excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills to produce design documents and live solution presentations to customers and partners. Fluent English is a must
●  Proactive and possess strong interpersonal, customer service, and organizational skills, able to build relationships and influence outcomes
●  Able to handle multiple priorities and manage available resources accordingly in a fast-paced environment
●  Must be a leader that leads through setting an example
●  Must be an enabler and coach to empower and grow a team of software developers and architects
●  Excellent analytical skills

**Qualifications**

●  Minimum 10 years of I.T. related experience in a corporate setting
●  Minimum 5 years of IT Management experience specifically in Software Development and Delivery
●  At least a B.S. in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM). Commensurate work experience will be considered in lieu of degree. Experience with biopharma and life sciences preferred
●  5 or more years of architecting, developing, and deploying scalable enterprise data solutions (Enterprise Data Warehouses, Data Marts, ETL/ELT workloads, etc.)
●  1 or more years’ experience in data visualization with technologies such as (Tableau, PowerBI, D3, SAS, R and/or Python visualization libraries)
●  Demonstrated ability to communicate highly technical concepts in business terms and articulate underlying business value
●  Demonstrated ability to build strong teams 
●  Demonstrated success leading remote cross-functional teams
●  Demonstrated experience in overseeing the concurrent delivery of multiple programs across multiple functions and business groups

**We offer:**
● Fully remote work;
● Flexible working hours;
● Unlimited vacations / PTO;
● Excellent growth opportunities in a highly dynamic, unique product company;
● Zero bureaucracy;
● Paid trainings and certifications;
● Competitive compensation.