Senior Director, Software Engineering

Overview

The Senior Director, Software Engineering is the enterprise technical leader for modern software engineering, partnering with the Senior Director, Software Development Practices Transformation and the Enterprise AI R&D Product Director to unify engineering, practices, and AI-enablement into a consistent, scalable, and compliant approach.

What you'll do

• Define and maintain enterprise software engineering patterns and reference approaches for services, data, UI, and platform components that embed security, quality, and compliance.
• Guide adoption of reliability-focused engineering, including service-level indicators, incident learning, and modern operational practices.
• Ensure engineering teams can apply standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 14971, IEC 82304-1, and AAMI TIR45 in a lightweight, iterative way.
• Develop and sequence a multi-quarter roadmap of engineering capabilities, tools, and skills.
• Align AI-enabled engineering tools with DevSecOps, validation, and QMS expectations.
• Define and deploy metrics for flow, quality, security, and reliability, linking engineering work to business outcomes such as cycle time and EBIT impact.
• Advance consistent development, build, test, and release workflows with secure dependency management and automated evidence generation.
• Provide coaching, design reviews, and technical guidance that raise engineering maturity and consistency.
• Promote consistent interface patterns, API standards, and shared services that minimize duplication.
• Model constructive challenge, data-driven experimentation, and transparent communication.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience with significant time in regulated health software.
• Deep software engineering background across cloud, data, embedded, or platform systems.
• Fluency with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and secure development practices.
• Strong understanding of applying IEC, ISO, and AAMI standards in regulated environments.
• Proven technical leadership experience at scale in architecture, reliability, or platform engineering.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts and influence cross-functional engineering decisions.
• Strong ability to influence outcomes across engineering, quality, regulatory, and product teams.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• Recognized technical expert with a reputation for pragmatic, scalable engineering solutions.
• Experienced mentor of engineering talent and technical leaders.
• Strong business acumen linking engineering choices to customer and financial outcomes.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India (EPIP 122 Phase II).
• Relocation assistance: not provided.