Engineering Manager/Director - SaaS Architecture

Role Overview: As an experienced Engineering Manager/Director, you will be responsible for leading and scaling the engineering organization. Your expertise in SaaS architectures, AI/ML integration, and agile practices, along with strong people leadership and business alignment skills, will be crucial in guiding teams to deliver high-quality, AI-enabled software at speed. You will foster a culture of ownership, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: - Drive cloud-native SaaS architecture and distributed systems design. - Champion CI/CD pipelines for safe, automated, and rapid delivery. - Guide teams on AI/ML workflows: data pipelines, model training, deployment. - Promote story slicing into small, testable increments to maximize flow. - Scale agile practices across teams while balancing autonomy and alignment. - Coach engineers to own delivery, experiment, and continuously improve. - Mentor technical leads in software engineering and AI/ML best practices. - Ensure release reliability through monitoring, observability, and automated rollback. - Align engineering throughput with product roadmaps and business outcomes. - Translate complex engineering and AI concepts into business value for executives and customers. - Lead cultural change toward always deployable software and responsible AI integration. Qualifications Required: - Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field. - 10 to 15+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles. - Proven track record of leading teams in SaaS, cloud-native, and AI/ML-powered products. - Strong knowledge of CI/CD, distributed systems, MLOps, and agile scaling. - Excellent people leadership, coaching, and communication skills. - Ability to align engineering strategy with business goals.,