Executive Vice President-Trade Supply Chain Finance

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Role Overview

senior engineering and delivery leader

technology + product + global delivery

Key Responsibilities

1. Engineering & Architecture Leadership

• Lead and mentor large high-performing engineering teams across Backend, Frontend, DevOps, QA, SRE, Data & Cloud.
• Review and guide architecture decisions, high-risk code areas, and performance bottlenecks.
• Institutionalize engineering excellence — clean code, DevSecOps, SRE, observability, performance, scalability, and VAPT.

2. Product & Platform Ownership

• Own the technology roadmap for the Trade Finance stack —

  SCF, LC/BG, Documentary Collections, Open Account, Trade Operations, and Digital Trade Ecosystems

  .
• Architect microservices-based, event-driven, API-first platforms designed for configurability and scale.
• Build solutions adhering to strict

  risk, compliance, and security

  benchmarks of global banks.

3. Delivery Governance & Client Success

• End-to-end delivery responsibility across multiple programs and global markets.
• Define predictable delivery governance — release cadence, velocity, throughput, defect density, and production stability.
• Act as a senior delivery escalation and decision-making authority with CXO/client leadership.

4. Platform Modernization & Transformation

• Lead migrations from legacy Trade core systems to

  cloud-native microservices and containerized deployments

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• Deep experience in

  core banking, lending, payments, SWIFT connectivity, and trade document workflows

  .
• Re-engineer flows to improve STP, digitization, operational efficiency, and integration readiness.

5. AI-Enabled Engineering & Productivity

• Implement

  GenAI-enabled engineering frameworks

  (Copilot, Cursor, Tabnine, ChatGPT etc.) to accelerate development and automation.
• Promote AI-assisted testing, documentation, code reviews, and regression.
• Integrate

  ML/AI models

  for anomaly detection, compliance validation, invoice risk evaluation, automated underwriting, and supply-chain risk scoring.

Qualifications & Experience

• 23+ years in product engineering

  , with

  10+ years leading large technology and delivery organizations in BFSI / Trade Finance

  .
• Demonstrated success building

  mission-critical, scalable, low-latency banking platforms

  .
• Deep hands-on experience in

  Java + microservices + distributed systems

  . Exposure to Python/C++ preferred.
• Proven platform modernization experience — cloud, Kubernetes/Docker, streaming (Kafka/Pulsar), event sourcing.
• Strong domain depth in

  Trade Finance, SCF, Open Account, LC/BG, Payments & Transaction Banking

  .
• Managed engineering ecosystems of

  500+ directly or through matrix org structures

  .
• Strong stakeholder management with

  Product, Business, Risk, Operations & Global Client Leaders

  .

Leadership Attributes

• High-ownership execution leader with

  predictable delivery and strong rigor

  .
• Ability to

  scale teams, processes and platforms during rapid growth and transformation

  .
• Operates with

  urgency, hands-on problem solving and extreme accountability

  .
• Clear, transparent communicator who builds trust and alignment across global teams.

Why this role is critical

platform innovation + engineering excellence + enterprise delivery governance