(PnP) VP Engineering

Overview

Senior engineering leader owning engineering excellence and standards for the global product development organisation, with Hyderabad as the primary hub for the India superhub.

What you'll do

• Set and enforce global standards for engineering practice and Secure SDLC, deciding what ships, what gets blocked, and how quality and predictability are measured across product teams.
• Raise the local hiring and performance bar in Hyderabad, build Staff+ talent density, and make the hub a visible benchmark for craft and accountability across Engineering.
• Own the engineering career framework and learning paths with engineering leadership so progression, calibration, and technical depth are consistent worldwide.
• Advise product engineering leaders on architecture, quality, and delivery, and escalate or stop work when standards, security, or craft are at risk.
• Partner with Engineering Operations on developer experience, CI/CD, and AI-assisted workflows so tooling reinforces the bar.
• Scale excellence through chapters, mentorship, and targeted enablement where it hardens standards and talent.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of engineering leadership.
• Proven record raising standards across organisations of 500+ engineers in multiple locations.
• Track record of hard resets on hiring bar, performance calibration, architecture/quality gates, and holding delivery pressure accountable to craft.
• Hands-on enough to pair in code and credible across web, mobile, and backend when guiding engineers and architects.
• Strong product sense: UX, business logic, and non-functionals.
• Demonstrated ownership of career frameworks, engineering standards, and Secure SDLC in financial services or other regulated environments.
• Experience building or transforming a major engineering hub (or equivalent multi-site centre of excellence), attracting senior talent.
• Driven AI adoption in real product development, with judgment about where it raises quality and where it does not.
• A clear communicator who can set a vision, say no with reasons, and rally leaders around shared standards and commitments.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India (primary stage for the role).