Engineering Director

Overview

Lead the Hyderabad delivery organisation for Two Circles, a sports and entertainment marketing business, managing a team of around 50 engineers, QA and delivery specialists across its Data and Digital Products & CRM practices.

What you'll do

• Lead, grow and retain the India team, including recruitment, onboarding and development of new team members.
• Co-own the culture of the Hyderabad office with the HR Lead and act as a role model of the Two Circles spirit.
• Build an India leadership layer of Engineering Managers, QA leadership and delivery leadership, embedding progression frameworks, career pathways and regular, structured feedback.
• Own the software delivery lifecycle across India projects, with consistent processes that drive quality and predictability.
• Oversee QA and release management standards across India builds, aligned with global standards.
• Stay close to the work: attend key governance forums, review delivery health weekly, and step in when projects need support.
• Work with Tech Leads to ensure technical standards and architectural approaches are followed, in line with direction set by the Engineering Directors for Data and Digital Products & CRM.
• Embed and drive adoption of the agentic engineering practices being rolled out across global teams in India.
• Help the India team take increasing ownership of outcomes end-to-end, including design, and reduce reliance on other regions to unblock problems.
• Create and run a monthly governance process and health report covering hiring, onboarding, attrition, utilisation, quality and performance, and progress on major initiatives.
• Own delivery, quality and team health metrics, including code quality, production defects and time to resolve issues, and track ratings from project leaders in other regions.
• Own utilisation and cost efficiency across India delivery, and propose the India hiring plan.
• Work with Delivery Directors globally on resource planning and hotspots.
• Work with Directors in Melbourne, London and Vancouver to develop operating models for smooth cross-region work.
• Help Hyderabad become a knowledge hub by bringing in effective practices from other regions and feeding Hyderabad innovations back to the business.

What you'll need

• 15+ years' experience, including senior leadership of an organisation of 50+ people across engineering, QA and delivery, and experience managing managers.
• Direct leadership of engineering and QA teams, ideally having started your career as an engineer.
• Ability to contribute credibly to architecture and code-quality discussions across both data engineering and digital product engineering.
• Senior client-facing experience in a services, agency or consultancy business.
• Experience working within a multi-region or global delivery model.
• Hands-on ownership of the software delivery lifecycle, delivery processes, resourcing and talent management.
• Strong emotional intelligence and resilience, and the ability to influence senior peers and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to lead and inspire teams and engage a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• An interest in AI-enabled development practices and the drive to lead their adoption.
• Eligibility to work in India.
• Able to travel regularly to Vancouver, London and Melbourne.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the platforms built on (CMS, identity, video, CRM and e-commerce) and modern cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with sports and entertainment.
• Experience building or leading a Global Capability Centre or an India-based global delivery hub.
• Experience in both startup-style and enterprise-scale environments.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Reports to the APAC Managing Director, with a dotted line to the Engineering Directors for Data and for Digital Products & CRM.
• Travel regularly to Vancouver, London and Melbourne.