Director, Application Engineer

Overview

Director, Application Engineering leads architecture, engineering strategy, and delivery for enterprise-scale platforms supporting global post-trade operations.

What you'll do

• Define and drive technology strategy, target-state architecture, and engineering direction across application and data platforms.
• Provide technical leadership for distributed application, integration, and data platforms.
• Translate business priorities into executable technology roadmaps and lead modernization initiatives.
• Establish engineering standards for quality, resilience, security, operational excellence, and governance.
• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate trade-offs, manage dependencies, and maximize business outcomes.
• Develop senior engineering talent and foster accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities and intelligent automation with appropriate risk controls.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in enterprise-scale software engineering environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Expertise in modern application architecture, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong technical depth in enterprise application development and data architecture, including performance optimization and best practices.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale application and data platforms using modern messaging, caching, and distributed processing.
• Experience defining technology strategy and leading complex multi-team initiatives while balancing modernization with delivery.
• Experience in leadership, communication, decision-making, risk management, reliability, security, and operational excellence.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.
• Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.
• Some business groups may require more time in the office.