Associate Director - Software Engineering

About the role

The Associate Director - Software Engineering is a technical leader responsible for the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of software and data engineering solutions, with a solid foundation in software and data engineering concepts and a proven track record of leading engineering teams. This role combines deep hands-on technical expertise with people leadership to set direction, grow talent, and deliver scalable, high-quality systems.

What you'll do

• Own the technical vision and architecture for software and data engineering initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and built to a high engineering bar
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software and data engineers, drawing on prior experience leading an engineering team; build a culture of ownership, craftsmanship
• Track emerging technologies and industry trends, and translate them into a forward-looking roadmap for the team's tools, architecture, and capabilities
• Champion the use of AI in day-to-day engineering work coding assistants, automated testing, intelligent monitoring
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices code review, CI/CD, testing, observability, and security across the team

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• Data modelling
• CI/CD
• ETL
• Warehouse operations
• MLOps
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• Machine learning
• SOX
• Test automation