Technical Engineering - Director

Overview

Lead a large engineering organization delivering tax technology applications and AI/ML solutions for PwC's US clients, working within the Acceleration Center India as a Technical Engineering Director.

What you'll do

• Lead an initial team of 30+ engineers across multiple tax technology applications, with scope to grow
• Design and implement end-to-end solution architectures for large-scale platforms
• Stay close enough to the work to guide architecture, review critical designs and code paths, troubleshoot high-severity issues, and pair with engineers on the most complex problems
• Own technical decisions locally, including architecture, tooling, patterns, and trade-offs
• Drive engineering quality in partnership with US colleagues: code review standards, testing practices, deployment reliability
• Partner with US portfolio leadership (Directors, Senior Managers) on roadmap execution
• Mentor and develop senior engineers and managers on your team
• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and scalability gaps
• Own operational excellence for your portfolio: uptime, incident response, release reliability, and support burden reduction
• Establish and maintain regular operational reporting (production health, delivery velocity, quality metrics, technical debt) for US leadership
• Champion modern engineering practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability
• Drive AI adoption across your team: AI-assisted development workflows, LLM integration, agentic automation
• Evaluate and implement AI/ML capabilities that improve delivery speed, accuracy, or client outcomes
• Build your team's fluency with AI tools (coding assistants, test generation, automated review)

What you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 18+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership
• Proven ability to lead teams of 30+ engineers across multiple workstreams
• Strong hands-on skills: you can still architect, code, debug, and deploy
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable)
• Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, and API design
• Experience with .NET/C#, modern JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python at enterprise scale
• Track record of improving engineering quality, velocity, and team capability
• Excellent communication with both technical teams and business stakeholders
• Experience working in distributed/global team models (US + India collaboration)

Nice to have

• Experience building or integrating AI/ML systems in production (LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, embeddings)
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows
• Experience in financial services, tax technology, or regulatory compliance domains
• Experience transforming teams from staff-augmentation to autonomous delivery
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, agile delivery practices at scale

Details

• Location: Kolkata, India