Description:

Location: Hyderabad

Mode of work: On-site (5 days a week)

Timings: 12pm - 9pm

Position Overview:

The Vice President of Product Engineering is responsible for the end-to-end engineering strategy, execution, and delivery of the companys product portfolio.

This role leads engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, and operations to ensure high-quality, scalable, and secure products.

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering & Product Development Leadership:

- Lead the full engineering lifecycle from concept design development testing deployment support.

- Partner with Product Management to translate product vision, requirements, and roadmaps into engineering plans.

- Drive architecture decisions, technical design reviews, and engineering standards.

- Ensure products meet strict criteria for performance, scalability, reliability, usability, and security.

Team Leadership & Talent Development:

- Hire, develop, and mentor a world-class engineering team.

- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

- Establish best practices for performance reviews, succession planning, and skill development.

- Promote collaboration between product, design, engineering, QA, DevOps, and security teams.

Engineering Operations & Delivery Excellence:

- Implement industry-standard methodologiesAgile, CI/CD, DevSecOps, TDD, automated QA, observability, SRE principles.

- Oversee sprint planning, release management, velocity reporting, and delivery metrics.

- Optimize engineering processes for predictability, quality, and faster time-to-market.

Technology, Architecture & Innovation:

- Evaluate and modernize technology stacks, tools, and cloud infrastructure.

- Make build-vs-buy decisions based on long-term ROI.

- Ensure strong system architecture guidelines, API standards, and data governance practices.

- Drive innovation initiatives in AI/ML, automation, integrations, and cloud modernization.

Security, Compliance & Risk Management:

- Work with security teams to integrate DevSecOps and ensure products meet compliance requirements (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, etc., as applicable).

- Oversee incident response, SLAs, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.

- Build secure-by-design engineering frameworks.

Stakeholder & Executive Collaboration:

- Act as the primary voice of engineering to the C-suite, board, and cross-functional leaders.

- Present engineering roadmap, progress, risks, staffing needs, and budget recommendations.

- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Support to ensure customer-centric releases and ongoing reliability.

Required Qualifications:

- 12+ years of software engineering experience

- 6+ years leading engineering/product engineering teams

- Strong technical background in cloud, API, DevOps, distributed systems

- Proven success delivering enterprise-grade software at scale

- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional alignment skills

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in regulated industries (healthcare, life sciences, fintech, SaaS)

- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity and compliance frameworks

- Experience modernizing architecture and scaling engineering teams

KPIs for Success:

- On-time delivery & roadmap execution

- System uptime, reliability, quality, and performance

- Security posture and compliance readiness

- Team velocity, productivity, and retention

- Cost efficiency & resource optimization

- Customer satisfaction and business impact