Halifax-based wearable technologies company Aycoutay is looking for a Vice-President of Information Technology.

The posting – which is our Job of the Week – comes from a young company that is developing hardware and software to help users achieve better health through nutrition, exercise and lifestyle. The hardware is a wearable device that captures data on the user’s body and the software analyzes the data to provide a holistic assessment of the user’s health.

The Job of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.

Here is an excerpt from the headline posting this week:

Halifax

Aycoutay.com

Vice-President of Information Technology

Aycoutay Technologies Inc., located at 1592 Barrington Street 5th floor, Halifax NS B3J 0C7, creates technology for tracking the body’s well-being. The technology allows its users to gather and analyze data regarding the 7 main body systems, and provide recommendations on how to improve systems balance. Aycoutay is part of a group of companies that form an “Ecosystem” of companies founded and managed by the same CEO.

Aycoutay is hiring a 30 hour per week permanent Vice President Information Technology who will create strategies to ensure the security of the Ecosystem electronic information and build structures and processes to ensure safe capture, storage and transmission of this data. The role will also support technology product development across the Ecosystem. While employed by Aycoutay, this position will be assigned to support and work out of the other Ecosystem companies throughout the course of employment with Aycoutay.

Responsibilities:

Ecosystem 10%

Create the vision and strategy for management of Ecosystem company electronic data that are both aligned with industry best practices and the Ecosystem values.

Infrastructure 70%

Aycoutay Specific:

Support on-going product development including hardware, software including external service providers.

Support and contribute to user testing process.

All Ecosystem:

Investigate and implement electronic document management system - research, present options to leadership team and implement selected options including security for R&D, lab, production etc.

Create strategy and systems for company data Infrastructure:

  • Developer data
  • HR data
  • Controlling / Finance data
  • Marketing data
  • Authorization structure
  • Secure communication
  • Collaboration platforms, shared document platform
  • Create strategy and systems for IoT Devices:
  • Device to smartphone - smartphone to server
  • Storage of all collected data adhering to all applicable data security laws
  • Secure encrypted connection (data in motion)
  • Storage data encryption (data in rest)
  • Scale out / scale up structure within the software
  • Create software strategy and tools:
  • Store of different software versions (version management)
  • Software delivery
  • Penetration / security testing
  • Smoke tests / approval tests
  • DevOps Infrastructure and / or DevOps culture
  • Establish service desk strategy and plan including:
  • 1st to 3rd level including workflows
  • Service level agreements
  • Customer ticket system
  • Problem and incident management
  • Languages aligned with company sales and marketing strategy
  • Follow the sun support
  • Solution knowledge bases
  • Create hosting / hardware systems:
  • SSL encrypted connections
  • Scale out / scale up architectures
  • Service level agreements
  • Service level objectives
  • 3 tier application security architectures
  • Customer data handling
  • Datacenter security or cloud computing security
  • Using multi-cloud services
  • Create Contingency/Emergency planning including:
  • back-up
  • other data loss situations

Today’s Growth 10%

As part of the leadership team, contribute to revenue strategy and delivery as applicable.

Human Dynamics 10%

Mentor Ecosystem team members in IT strategy and tools.

Use values as a decision making tool.

Build healthy and prosperous relationships within IT team (when built) as well as all Ecosystem team members and with external partners . . .

Read the full job posting here.