Engineering Head

Role & responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy and technology roadmap in alignment with the organization's business objectives.
• Lead and manage engineering teams across software development, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and quality assurance.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software systems.
• Establish engineering standards, software architecture principles, coding guidelines, and best practices across teams.
• Drive end-to-end product and platform delivery, ensuring quality, reliability, security, and timely execution.
• Collaborate with product management, business leadership, data science, security, and operations teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Build and scale high-performing engineering teams through recruitment, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Define engineering KPIs, delivery metrics, productivity measures, and operational goals to monitor team and organizational performance.
• Drive cloud adoption, DevOps automation, CI/CD improvements, platform modernization, and infrastructure scalability.
• Manage engineering budgets, resource allocation, technology investments, and vendor relationships to optimize costs and productivity.
• Establish practices for application security, reliability engineering, incident management, disaster recovery, and technical risk mitigation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches to improve development efficiency and product capabilities.
• Identify and reduce technical debt while maintaining a balance between innovation, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Lead cross-functional technical discussions, architecture reviews, and critical incident resolution.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.
• Communicate engineering progress, risks, resource requirements, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in software engineering, application development, platform engineering, or related technology roles, with substantial technical leadership experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, and scalable application development.
• Hands-on experience with modern development technologies, programming languages, frameworks, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams, managing delivery commitments, mentoring engineers, and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, containerization, and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of application security, performance optimization, reliability engineering, observability, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans.
• Experience managing project priorities, engineering capacity, delivery risks, technical debt, and resource allocation.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to business leaders and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining engineering talent while establishing effective performance evaluation and feedback processes.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, product development lifecycles, quality assurance, and continuous improvement practices.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical guidance with people management, strategic planning, and operational accountability.
• A track record of delivering reliable software products, improving engineering productivity, and demonstrating measurable business outcomes.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations, managing budgets, and reporting to executive leadership is an advantage.