Engineering Executive Manager - Everyday Banking

Overview

Lead the Everyday Banking engineering organisation in Bengaluru, a senior technology and people leadership role responsible for approximately 150 engineers across levels.

What you'll do

• Translate Everyday Banking priorities into clear engineering outcomes and stay engaged from intent through execution and measurable value.
• Build, lead and inspire an engaged organisation of approximately 150 engineers, establishing clear expectations, strong leadership layers and an environment of accountability, psychological safety and continuous improvement.
• Bring credible technical judgement to domain conversations, understanding architecture, technology health and engineering constraints, and partner with CTLs and senior technical leaders to improve technology direction and execution.
• Create engineering systems that improve flow, quality and safe speed, championing DevSecOps, full-cycle engineering, automation, continuous delivery, observability, reliability, resilience, security and production ownership.
• Make technical debt, obsolescence, operational risk and engineering friction visible, and work with technology and product leaders to prioritise remediation and simplify the estate.
• Establish clear guardrails and decision rights so teams and senior engineers can make sound decisions close to the work.
• Build a strong pipeline of Engineering Managers, Principal/Staff Engineers and future technology leaders through candid coaching, development and succession plans.
• Build trusted relationships across Bengaluru and Australia, influencing without relying on hierarchy and creating shared accountability with Product, Business and Technology partners.
• Where you carry delivery accountability, translate priorities into executable plans, manage material dependencies and risks, and deliver predictably while protecting quality and long-term technology health.
• Drive responsible adoption of AI across the software engineering lifecycle where it improves developer effectiveness, quality, operational efficiency or customer outcomes.
• Ensure teams understand and own the technology they build and run, strengthening service health, incident learning, vulnerability management, production readiness and compliance with security, privacy, resilience and risk expectations.
• Partner with domain and India leadership on workforce composition, location strategy, critical skills, hiring and capability investment.
• Contribute beyond Everyday Banking by sharing practices, developing talent and helping Retail Technology India become a distinctive engineering advantage for the Bank.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering.
• Experience leading large, complex engineering organisations through other leaders, ideally at 100+ engineer scale.
• Strong people leadership combined with credible technology and engineering depth, able to operate from executive strategy and organisational design through to meaningful architecture and engineering discussions.
• Experience building high-performing engineering organisations with strong DevSecOps, continuous delivery, automated quality, observability, reliability, resilience, security and operational ownership practices.
• Ability to translate customer and business priorities into engineering outcomes, measures and pragmatic technology choices.
• Experience leading technology modernisation and simplification in complex estates, including technical-debt reduction, platform evolution, integration simplification and legacy constraints.
• Understanding of modern software architecture, APIs and integration, cloud and platform engineering, distributed systems, data, security, privacy and resilience sufficient to challenge and guide senior engineers and architects.
• Track record of building engineering leaders, creating succession and lifting capability at organisational scale, including managing under-performance and giving clear, actionable feedback.
• Ability to influence senior Product, Business and Technology stakeholders through genuine disagreement, making trade-offs visible and maintaining constructive relationships under delivery pressure.
• Comfort operating in a global, matrixed organisation with split functional and local accountabilities, creating clarity where formal authority is distributed.
• Use of data and engineering measures to improve flow, quality, reliability, developer experience, technology health and customer value.
• Ability to make difficult prioritisation and investment trade-offs, balancing near-term outcomes with sustainable engineering and total cost of ownership.
• Curiosity and pragmatism about AI and emerging technology, able to turn experimentation into responsible, measurable engineering value.
• Leadership with humility, courage and accountability, inviting challenge, learning from setbacks and willing to change own leadership behaviour as the organisation evolves.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.
• Functional reporting to the Everyday Banking Domain Tech Lead / Technology General Manager; local reporting to the General Manager, Retail Technology India.
• The role may carry direct delivery accountability for selected outcomes or portfolios.
• Advertising end date: 24/11/2026.