Associate Director Engineering

ESP Engineered; Pune District; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance (Employee + Family)

Hybrid working

PF and Gratuity

Job summary

Academian is seeking an Associate Director Engineering to lead and scale our Pune-based engineering function. This role focuses on technology execution, people leadership, and engineering excellence while partnering with Product, Business, and Customer Success teams to deliver reliable, scalable enterprise-grade solutions for the US EdTech market.

You will shape the technical roadmap, build high-performing teams, and mentor front-line managers to accelerate time-to-market and maintain high

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• 15+ years of experience in software development.
• 5+ years in a leadership role directing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership across engineering, AI, and product initiatives.
• Define and execute the AI roadmap and establish the AI Centre of Excellence.
• Build and lead multiple agile/scrum teams delivering critical product components.
• Collaborate with Presales/Sales/Solution Architects/Customers on technical designs.
• Ensure on-time delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Technical leadership

AI roadmap

Architecture

Agile/Scrum teams

Mentoring

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Job description

Job Title: Associate Director Engineering

No. of Openings: 01

Total Experience: 15+ Years

Qualification: B.E/B. Tech

Job Location: Pune/Hybrid

Reporting To: Executive Vice President

We are seeking a seasoned Associate Director of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering department as we grow our US B2B EdTech Business. This role is responsible for technology execution, people leadership, and engineering excellence while partnering closely with Product, Business, and Customer Success teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.

You will play a critical role in shaping our technical roadmap, building high-performing teams, and ensuring our products meet the expectations of enterprise customers in the US market.

Key Responsibilities

· Provide strategic and technical leadership across engineering, AI, and product initiatives.

· Define and execute the AI roadmap, including architecture, platforms, and enterprise AI adoption.

· Establish, scale, and govern the AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), driving best practices, innovation, and reuse.

· Build and lead multiple agile/scrum teams of top-notch engineers to own, drive & deliver critical parts of our products.

· Work closely with Presales/Sales/Solution Architects/Customers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.

· Ensure timely delivery of projects with high quality.

· Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.

· Oversee architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.

· Architecting and engineering solutions which can meet the requirement of unknown customer buying off the shelf products

· Engage with delivery management /product management teams to drive the functionality, usability, and other non-functional requirements

· Ensure on time launches by managing design, development, and integration efforts according to a standard or customized project plan

· Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement.

· Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long-term vision.

· Be responsible for mentoring and developing front line managers and engineers.

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.

Must Have skills

· 14+ years of work experience in software development and 5+ years as a leadership role.

· Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies.Preferably from EdTech Background

· Experience in building and running distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale.

· Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems

· Experience working on solutions/proposals and estimation

· Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.

· Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.

· Strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

· Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.

· Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience. Engaging and influencing peers and executives.

· A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.

· Being a strong leader, team player, mentor, and people manager.

Our Offerings for Employee Benefits

· Health Insurance for Employee+ Spouse+ Two Children +Parents

· Hybrid working

· Compliance – PF and Gratuity

About Academian

Academian is a carve out of an existing IT services company – Intraedge Inc.

We are a service, products and learning development company in the education domain with a current headcount of 500+ team members. We are targeting a headcount of 1000 in the next 3 years as we are working on a pipeline for additional business expanding our footprint across services, products, and learning.