Vice President Software Engineering

One of India’s fastest-growing Treasury & FinTech platform providers is looking for a seasoned technology leader to drive execution excellence across product development and large-scale client implementations.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who combines deep engineering expertise with strong delivery discipline. Exposure to Treasury, Banking, or Financial Markets will be a significant advantage.

Role Overview

As Vice President – Engineering & Delivery, you will own end-to-end technology delivery — leading product development as well as customer implementations. You will lead a team of architects, engineering managers, developers, testers, and implementation specialists while working closely with Product, Business, Client Services, and senior leadership.

You will bring a strong builder mindset, the ability to simplify complex problems, and proven experience delivering enterprise-grade platforms in multi-stakeholder environments.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Delivery Leadership

• Own delivery across all product development, enhancements, maintenance, and client implementation programs
• Build and enforce strong project governance, milestone tracking, risk management, and stakeholder communication frameworks
• Drive predictable, high-quality, and on-time delivery with clear accountability

Technology Oversight

• Guide architecture and design decisions focusing on scalability, performance, resilience, and seamless integrations
• Review critical designs, database models, APIs, and integration strategies
• Promote reusability, standardization, and modern engineering practices (Microservices, Cloud, DevOps)

Team & Capability Building

• Mentor and develop engineering managers, architects, and senior technical talent
• Build a high-performance engineering culture rooted in ownership, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement
• Partner with HR to attract, retain, and grow top engineering talent

Stakeholder & Domain Leadership

• Collaborate closely with Product, Business, and Client teams to align delivery priorities
• Engage directly with key customers during implementations, escalations, and strategic initiatives
• Apply strong domain understanding of treasury workflows, financial instruments, banking interfaces, and compliance requirements

Process Excellence

• Strengthen Agile/Scrum execution with real-world delivery rigor
• Institutionalize key metrics — velocity, defect rates, deployment reliability, and release cadence
• Bring discipline to estimation, capacity planning, documentation, and quality assurance

Requirements

• 15–20 years of experience in enterprise software delivery or product engineering
• Proven experience leading large, multi-team delivery programs at Director / AVP / VP or equivalent level
• Strong full-stack engineering understanding (UI, APIs, databases, integrations, and cloud architectures)
• Hands-on exposure to .NET, Java, Python, or similar scalable enterprise technology stacks
• Solid experience with relational databases, PL/SQL, and performance tuning
• Treasury, Banking, Financial Markets, Payments, or ERP domain experience is a strong advantage
• Excellent leadership presence, communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills

Why This Role?

• Play a pivotal role in building mission-critical financial technology platforms
• Lead engineering and delivery at scale in a fast-growing FinTech environment
• Significant opportunity to shape technical strategy and engineering culture