Vice President Product Engineering

Location: Hyderabad

Mode 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 company’s product portfolio. This role leads engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, and operations to ensure high-quality, scalable, and secure products.

Key Responsibilities:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Engineering Operations & Delivery Excellence

• Implement industry-standard methodologies—Agile, 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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