Description:

Role Overview:

The Director of Engineering will provide strategic, technical, and people leadership across multiple product engineering teams. This role involves driving end-to-end delivery excellence, fostering a high-performance culture, and ensuring seamless collaboration between engineering, product, and business stakeholders. The candidate must have a strong background in technology leadership, product engineering, team management, and operational oversight.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Engineering Management:

- Lead and manage day-to-day development activities across 23 product-based Scrum teams.

- Collaborate with Tech Leads, Product Managers, and Business Analysts to create and execute product roadmaps.

- Ensure adherence to best practices in SDLC, quality assurance, cloud, DevOps, security, and code governance.

- Oversee and drive the release management lifecycle for all assigned products and platforms.

- Proactively assess engineering risks, dependencies, and delivery bottlenecks and provide actionable solutions.

- Monitor and optimize team velocity, sprint health, and long-term technical sustainability.

- Act as the primary escalation point for engineering concerns, ensuring quick resolution and customer satisfaction.

- Ensure documentation, architecture diagrams, and knowledge base are consistently updated.

2. People & Leadership:

- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, creating a high-trust, high-performance work environment.

- Act as the go-to leader for all engineering talent in the Jaipur DC.

- Foster a strong culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and process excellence.

- Recommend and implement improvements to engineering processes and development workflows.

- Encourage continuous improvement, conduct performance reviews, and provide constructive feedback.

3. Operations & Coordination (Approx. 5% involvement):

- Align with central operations and accounts teams to identify facility requirements, procurement needs, and resource planning for the Jaipur DC.

- Support budgeting for engineering tools, infrastructure, and local operational needs.

- Ensure compliance with organizational operational standards and help execute location-specific initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

- 15+ years of hands-on experience in software development and engineering leadership roles.

- Proven experience managing multiple Scrum teams in a product-based environment.

- Strong knowledge of modern engineering practices: cloud platforms, microservices, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, testing frameworks, design principles, and scalable architectures.

- Excellent stakeholder management skills with ability to communicate effectively across teams, leadership, and clients.

- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict-resolution abilities.

- Experience handling escalations, release cycles, technical risk management, and delivery governance.

- Ability to influence technical direction and inspire engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Prior experience in a Director/Associate Director/Engineering Manager role.

- Exposure to US-based clients or global delivery models.

- Certification in Scrum, Agile, or Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) is a plus.

- Experience working in a rapidly scaling product or technology organization.