Strategic Digital Operations Lead

18 hours ago


Kuwait City, Al Asimah HealthCare Dynamics Gen. Trading Company W.L.L Full time
Job Description:

The role of Strategic Digital Operations Lead is crucial in leading a team of developers for the operations and support of existing digital initiatives (website, mobile app) and future digital initiatives (in-store kiosk marketplace etc.).

As the primary responsibility, this individual will perform continuous assessment on the systems and improvise to address the gaps where applicable. They will introduce and maintain operational processes to address business pain points, ensuring that applications are secure throughout and ongoing issues are addressed.

This role will be based in Kuwait, managing the local team & development partners. The ideal candidate should have experience in leading commerce development projects with a good understanding of retail business frameworks, technical architecture, deployment of commerce software, and integration of the online store to any other systems.

**Key Responsibilities**:
• Work in partnership with the business unit as a member of the management team to fully understand key business drivers, processes, and needs of current challenges as well as future strategic initiatives and objectives.
• Setup and follow the process for operational support to Business and Customers.
• Strategize the operational tools and systems required to be in place for better control and monitoring of systems.
• Collaborate with IT and the business, utilizing business intelligence and analysis to integrate technology differentiators into the business and Program planning cycle.
• Collaborate with Infra, Security team for identifying operational improvements and execute the improvements.
• Set up practices for security assessments with Security team and address the gaps.
• Provide integrated IT support to the business unit senior management team.
• Fully participate in wider business projects with an IT focus.
• Review, define, and challenge existing IT policies and practices with appropriate IT specialists and seek to continuously improve the services provided to the business.
• Active participation & knowledge contribution in Solution designs of every individual feature to better shape the design for scalability.
• Source, negotiate & manage 3rd Party suppliers & partners and forge partnerships with them for new technologies from a long-term perspective.
• Lead aspects of applications selection and implementation from IT perspective.
• Evaluating and introducing new technologies.
• Continuous improvement of systems reliability and performance.
• Involvement in the development activities when necessary.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate should possess a bachelor's degree in engineering/science/IT coupled with solid technology background in web/software development. A minimum of 8 years of experience in Retail/E-commerce industry is required, along with a minimum of 5 years of experience in leading the team(s) to drive and deliver the projects. Experience in leading development teams to deliver multiple projects in parallel is essential. Additionally, the candidate should have strong experience in one of the frontend frameworks like Angular, React, or Next JS. Working experience in implementation and architecture preparation of Microservices is also necessary. A good understanding of retail business framework, technical architecture, deployment of commerce software, and integration of the online store to third-party systems is essential. Strong solution architecting skills with a minimum of 5 years of experience, including application architecture, object and data modeling, database design, etc. are required. The candidate should have grown in the technical career path with hands-on experience in web development, coding, and solution design. Knowledge of Agile Software development methodology is also necessary. Excellent knowledge of Cloud administration (AWS or GCP or Azure), database administration, Social Media integration, SEO, SEM, Google Analytics, and strong business analysis and modeling techniques are required. Strong leadership qualities, clear & concise communication competency, consistency of thought process, adaptable, versatile, and ability to work at all levels are also necessary.

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