Head of IT Development & Projects Required in Dubai - Dubai

Head of IT Development & Projects Required in Dubai

Job Overview

We need an enthusiastic and accomplished individual who can accelerate technological transformation in IT without alienating staff who have got a great understanding of our business. Our new head will be seen as a respected expert on a wide range of IT technologies and will be able to evangelize them to both IT staff and nontechnical business peers. We’re looking for the head to bring new ideas and have a strong vision about the future opportunities for IT while being diplomatic enough to implement change without alienating staff.

This role is a technology visionary and change agent for IT, providing leadership to groups that include innovation managers, expert technology specialists, and professionals in shared IT services. The role will also be head of architecture, guiding the architectural impact of IT innovations.

This role drives technology innovation and transformation in IT and leads Agile/DevOps teams. This individual often leads cloud transformation initiatives and brings newer technologies, such as APIs, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes, into IT.

As an IT innovator this role is responsible for the enterprise technology strategy, including application modernization, to transform and innovate IT operations

As a business enabler this role is responsible for optimizing business operations to support the current business model.

Success will be measured in four primary ways: (1) adoption of new development tools and service-oriented architectures; (2) improving IT performance in terms of operational cost and agility; (3) agility in delivering new software releases (software/release velocity) and new products; and (4) customer (i.e., business user) satisfaction.

Job Description

Lead technology innovation to explore how these emerging technologies can transform the business.
Leverage trendspotting to anticipate how technological and non-technological trends could help the organization prepare for and navigate change and disruption.
Decide which technologies to invest in and procure, including making the business case.
Evolve the architecture to support the introduction of new technologies to enable the digital business strategy.
Assess the potential risk of bringing new and emerging technologies into the organization and determine how to mitigate it.
Manage technology vendors for the software and hardware procured.
Can work with business executives to identify, rationalize, and roadmap new digital business models and capabilities, and how technology can enable them
Leading the organizations that drive innovative and strategic thinking for the company such as enterprise architecture, innovation management, and R&D, while supporting other innovation efforts throughout the business.
Working with business functions to understand customer and market requirements in order to translate them into products and services that enable new business models and drive strategic business outcomes
Serving as the central point for technology innovation within IT
Leading a team of software engineers, who have adopted an agile, DevOps-orientated approach
Becoming involved in piloting and building business platforms
Infrastructure modernization, including hybrid multi-cloud, edge computing, containerization, and automated, programmable infrastructure

Business Enabler

Establishing and communicating requirements in acquiring technology applications, services, systems and equipment; negotiating and managing vendor contracts to cost, safety and performance standards
Ensuring that the appropriate risk assessments are made when introducing new information and operational technology into the organization

Role Specifications

Educational Qualifications

MBA or master's in technology related discipline
Technical Certificate required PMP required
Optional Certification SAFe Agile

Skills/Personal Attributes

Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
Excellent organizational and time-management skills and resource planning and task scheduling skills
Effective negotiation and vendor management skills
Organization and time management skills to keep projects on track and within budget
Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with team members and management and explain technical issues
Project management and leadership skills for managing projects and the teams involved with them
Proactive problem solver
Attention to detail

Work Experience

10+ years’ experience in similar field
Must have experience working in a large, private-sector IT organization
Strong knowledge of the Azur, consumer-facing mobile app design, development, and support using principles such as design thinking.
Identification and successful deployment of new IT technologies and development processes in a medium to large IT organization
Staff management, ideally running a department of 10 or more individuals with an annual budget of more than $1 million.
A wide understanding of IT technology and vendors combined with the ability to evangelize new developments to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong business acumen.
Management of vendor relationships and negotiating with vendors.
Business capability modeling and customer journey mapping techniques.

Work Experience

Business and Information

Mapping technologies to business vision, strategy and roadmap
Digital business literacy
Strategic planning and budgeting
Knowledge of customer behaviors, needs and expectations
Broad network of business relationships
Trendspotting
Expertise in relationships, dependencies and flows of information

Behavioral

Communicating, public speaker, listening and information gathering
Results Orientation
Emotional Intelligence
Decisiveness
Accountability
Coaching, delegating and developing
Influential and persuasive
Collaboration/teamwork
Out-of-the-box thinking
Creative Solution-Building

Technical

Understanding technologies, relevant vendors and product knowledge
Designing and guiding solution development
Applying lean startup/agile methods
Integrating solutions
EA methodologies
Digital product development and management
Configuration management systems
Designing modular architectures
Web application knowledge
Database knowledge
Programming languages, frameworks and tools

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