Interim Global Head of Technology and Engineering – Danish tech scale-up

Copenhagen/India

4-6 months

Our client is a Danish tech scale-up with +120 employees and HQ in Copenhagen. Global present with 8 sales offices and backed by international investors.
The product/platform are deeply integrated into our client’s customers offering. The platform includes payments and e-commerce.

Our client is scaling, and seeks to ensure quality follows, in all aspects of the product delivery.

The IGHT&E will lead several teams totaling 35-40 FTE’s, 75% of them being based in India so monthly travel will be expected.

Solid international management experience and strong commercial mindset mixed with technology skills is needed for this role

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leadership of Tech & Engineering organization and major stakeholders, including founders.
  • Strengthen collaboration between team, geographic locations and cultures.
  • High focus on QA in both software product and delivery, ensuring high customer product satisfaction.
  • Ensuring corporation and alignment between teams and product organization is smooth & solution oriented.
  • Deliver strategic input on future Tech & Engineering organization and implementing this.
  • Enough on-site presence in India to ensure quality, efficiency and resource management.
  • Bringing a commercial mindset to the Tech & Engineering organization, recognizing time-to-market is crucial.

Technology skills and understanding within:

  • Cloud and infrastructure
  • Software engineering (Java, Php, Android, IoS)
  • Enterprise architecture (code structure)

Workplace
Copenhagen with regularly trips to India