IT Director - Enterprise Data Management (15-20 Yrs) Anywhere In India/Multiple Locations (Systems/Product Software)

IT Director - India Position Title : IT Director About the position : - We are looking for an experienced IT Director to oversee India regional IT functions. The role reports to the Global BioUrja CTO.
-You will be in charge of a team of IT developers and manage the companys technology operations and the implementation of new IT systems.
-The IT Director role is to plan, organize, and manage people, process and technology to effectively and efficiently deliver innovative solutions in a 24x7 energy trading operations supporting India and North America. We are seeking a candidate to immediately deliver results leveraging relevant industry and technical experiences.
-The perfect candidate will demonstrate 10 years of experience leading application and development teams for major gas and power energy trading companies. About BioUrja and BioUrja Power Trading Team : The BioUrja Group spans the globe with facilities in China, India, Singapore, Mexico and 25 locations across the United States. BioUrja supplies and trades physical commodities, including biofuels, petroleum products, crude oil, natural gas, electric power, metal alloys, grains and animal feed products. We are among the four largest privately held companies in Huston, Texas and are built upon the entrepreneurial spirit of our hundreds of employees and the creativity and deep experience of our management team. BioUrja Power is a Power Marketer active across North American physical and financial markets, with an emphasis on congestion management, asset management and trading. BioUrja Power features an experienced team that has navigated the last 25 years of exceptional reform and market evolution with success, integrity and a culture of compliance. The members of the team are alumni from the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, State University of New York at Suny Buffalo, IIMs, IITs and NITs. Currently the power team is based in Houston, United States and Indore, India. Key Responsibilities of the IT Director : - Lead the execution of application services technology strategy, build and manage the application services team, anticipate and react to major technology changes, and establish technical standards - Build partnering relationships with the business and key vendors, and identify opportunities to expand and improve current services.
-Manages operational applications lifecycle of all projects.
-Provides leadership and motivates operations team to achieve high uptime success - Leverage industry standard technologies, principles, best practices and processes to deliver innovative, scalable solutions - Leverage agile methodologies to rapidly deliver incremental solutions - Leverage human and technical assets to deliver optimal results - Demonstrate continuous improvement: process, people and technology.
-Build, motivate and mentor teams - Demonstrate the highest standards of ethical behavior.
-Inspire creativity and innovation.
-Develop a cross training and rotational program.
-Codify standards and processes on the intranet.
-Continuously review and optimize resource task assignment and status to assure project success.
-Assure smooth transition of solutions to the application support team - Architect real-time, high risk systems for high availability The Successful Candidate will demonstrate : - Previous experience in data warehousing and datamarts, enterprise data management, data quality, big data, data supply chain, ETL process.
-Operational experience with the Microsoft stack (Windows, SQL Server) including Microsoft Azure.
-Technical expert in delivering custom solutions leveraging Microsoft tool and technologies. Demonstrated hands on experience required.
-Demonstrated - hands-on- coding and architecture skills. Credibility with coders dependent on the ability to lead by example and the ability to provide direct code guidance.
-Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where priorities may shift rapidly - Ten years of upper level management in software development with extensive knowledge of software development methodologies including development life cycles, requirements, research and definition, functional specification and design documentation, project planning and software test planning.
-Skilled in resource allocation, optimization and portfolio/project management leveraging Microsofts Suite of Project Management Tools.
-Has significant career experience at all levels of software development including hands on development, architecture and project management.
-Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences and has the ability to achieve results through influence and persuasion. Must demonstrate ability to create and present cohesive, innovative strategic plan.
Required Skills : English