Director - Software Engineering

Overview

Lead a full-stack DevOps organization delivering in-house products that help scientists move from discovery to delivery, based in Chennai, and guide a high-performing, multi-functional team.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with collaborators to validate requirements, prioritize features, and define timelines and achievements that deliver clear business outcomes.
• Lead the full product lifecycle from planning and build through development, testing, launch and operations, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Give to build and code reviews; act as a senior developer on sophisticated features to unlock velocity and uphold engineering excellence.
• Drive an agile POD to deliver sophisticated enterprise systems; embed enterprise standards focused on maintaining quality, security, and conformity; foster continuous integration and delivery.
• Supervise product performance, analyze metrics, and implement improvements using robust logging, monitoring and alerting to raise availability and user experience.
• Mentor engineers, promote cross-team teamwork, and evangelize modern, AI-augmented software practices and rigors.
• Develop talent; handle performance, hiring, pay and training decisions; shape a diverse, high-trust team environment that scales.
• Align engineering roadmaps with business priorities; communicate progress and risks clearly; remove obstacles to delivery.
• Uphold security-by-design, identity and access guidelines, and supervised ways of working appropriate to R&D contexts.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of IT experience.
• Experience in crafting and implementing Cloud Native applications.
• 5+ years working with administrating cloud infrastructure, e.g., Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.
• 5+ years within Linux and Network administration.
• Experience in Identification/Access Management such as SAML and OAuth.
• Experience working with Database administration, i.e. MongoDB.
• Software development skills in Python, SQL.
• Should have worked in distributed agile model and continuous integration.
• Analytical skills with attention to detail in quality.
• Experiences in CI/CD pipeline implementation.
• Demonstrate ability to apply technical knowledge to multiple systems and support multiple business groups and applications.
• Superb communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work with global teams to achieve objectives, phenomenal teammate.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent degree is helpful.

Nice to have

• Regulatory knowledge, i.e. GxP.
• Proven leadership of full-stack product teams delivering enterprise systems at scale.
• Experience in life sciences domain or R&D workflows.
• Expertise with microservices, event-driven architectures, and API design.
• Strong observability practice (logging, metrics, tracing) with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• SRE and operational excellence experience, including reliability patterns and on-call leadership.
• Cost optimization and managing prioritisation in public cloud environments.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular) and Python frameworks (FastAPI, Django).
• Familiarity with data privacy, security by design, and regulated environments (GxP).

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• Work mode: In-person working, on average a minimum of three days per week from the office.