Director of Engineering

As the Director of Engineering at SIDGS, you will be responsible for leading a high-performing global engineering team structured around PODs and shared service towers. You will play a crucial role in scaling delivery across complex, multi-disciplinary teams including App Dev, Web Dev, DevSecOps, Cloud, SRE, Data & AI, and Solution Architecture. Your strategic leadership in a professional services environment will be essential for ensuring engineering excellence, process governance, talent growth, and technical innovation across our portfolio of client engagements. Your key responsibilities will include leading a matrixed engineering organization, driving alignment across functional engineering towers and shared services, mentoring Engineering Leads, promoting continuous technical and leadership development, and owning end-to-end accountability for engineering deliverables. You will ensure adherence to engineering standards, secure coding practices, and audit readiness, oversee operational metrics, DevSecOps pipelines, SRE operations, and cloud infra governance, and collaborate with Solution Engineering and Sales to support pre-sales, estimation, and proposal development. Additionally, you will champion the adoption of emerging technologies such as GenAI, Vertex AI, and LangChain into client solutions, promote reusable reference architectures, knowledge sharing via COPs, lead Engineering Process Governance & Audit (PG&A), set and monitor KPIs for engineering productivity, code quality, CI/CD performance, and uptime, ensure security compliance, including CVE remediation and DAST/SAST implementation, and partner with internal R&D teams to pilot new technologies and integrate them into practice. You will also promote certification tracks, hackathons, and experimentation in modern cloud-native and AI-based architectures. To qualify for this role, you should have 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in leadership roles, a proven track record managing geographically distributed engineering teams in a services or consulting firm, and a deep understanding of cloud platforms, CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE tools, full-stack engineering, and AI/ML platforms. Strong program/project management acumen with a bias for execution, demonstrated experience in solution architecture and client delivery management, and certifications in cloud, DevSecOps, or AI/ML are a plus. A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field is preferred.,