Description
Location : HyderabadMode of work : On-site (5 days a week)Timings : 12pm - 9pm
Position Overview
The Vice President of Product Engineering is responsible for the end-to-end engineering strategy, execution, and delivery of the companys product portfolio. This role leads engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, and operations to ensure high-quality, scalable, and secure products.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineering & Product Development Leadership :
- Lead the full engineering lifecycle from concept design development testing deployment support.
- Partner with Product Management to translate product vision, requirements, and roadmaps into engineering plans.
- Drive architecture decisions, technical design reviews, and engineering standards.
- Ensure products meet strict criteria for performance, scalability, reliability, usability, and security.
- Team Leadership & Talent Development :
- Hire, develop, and mentor a world-class engineering team.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
- Establish best practices for performance reviews, succession planning, and skill development.
- Promote collaboration between product, design, engineering, QA, DevOps, and security teams.
- Engineering Operations & Delivery Excellence :
- Implement industry-standard methodologiesAgile, CI/CD, DevSecOps, TDD, automated QA, observability, SRE principles.
- Oversee sprint planning, release management, velocity reporting, and delivery metrics.
- Optimize engineering processes for predictability, quality, and faster time-to-market.
- Technology, Architecture & Innovation :
- Evaluate and modernize technology stacks, tools, and cloud infrastructure.
- Make build-vs-buy decisions based on long-term ROI.
- Ensure strong system architecture guidelines, API standards, and data governance practices.
- Drive innovation initiatives in AI/ML, automation, integrations, and cloud modernization.
- Security, Compliance & Risk Management :
- Work with security teams to integrate DevSecOps and ensure products meet compliance requirements (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, etc., as applicable).
- Oversee incident response, SLAs, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
- Build secure-by-design engineering frameworks.
- Stakeholder & Executive Collaboration :
- Act as the primary voice of engineering to the C-suite, board, and cross-functional leaders.
- Present engineering roadmap, progress, risks, staffing needs, and budget recommendations.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Support to ensure customer-centric releases and ongoing reliability.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- 6+ years leading engineering/product engineering teams
- Strong technical background in cloud, API, DevOps, distributed systems
- Proven success delivering enterprise-grade software at scale
- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional alignment skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in regulated industries (healthcare, life sciences, fintech, SaaS)
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity and compliance frameworks
- Experience modernizing architecture and scaling engineering teams
KPIs For Success
- On-time delivery & roadmap execution
- System uptime, reliability, quality, and performance
- Security posture and compliance readiness
- Team velocity, productivity, and retention
- Cost efficiency & resource optimization
- Customer satisfaction and business impact
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