Director of Software Engineering

Alchemy Job; Hyderabad; Presencial; INR 4.500.000 - 7.500.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Alchemy Job is seeking an seasoned Director of Software Engineering to lead and scale AI-first software products and cloud platforms. This role combines engineering leadership, product ownership, and architectural strategy to drive measurable business outcomes.

You will guide multiple engineering teams, drive modernization initiatives, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure engineering excellence and impact.

Formación

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading large engineering organizations (60–150 engineers).
• Experience migrating monoliths to SaaS in high-trust domains.
• Strong technical leadership and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management.

Responsabilidades

• Lead engineering organizations through managers and senior tech leaders.
• Build, develop, and retain high-performing teams with leadership pipelines.
• Drive cloud modernization, platform scalability, and reliability.
• Lead AI-first transformation across product development and operations.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Data, Design, and Business teams to deliver outcomes.
• Establish engineering practices to improve delivery quality and productivity.
• Influence technology strategy, architecture decisions, and long-term investments.
• Guide organizational growth and align with global engineering strategy.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Architectural design

Executive communication

Educación

Bachelor's/Master's in Engineering or CS

Herramientas

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

SQL/NoSQL

Snowflake

Java/Spring Boot

C#/.NET

Python (AI)

Descripción del empleo

We're Hiring: Director of Software Engineering – AI-First Products & Platforms

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead and scale high-performing engineering organizations responsible for next-generation AI-first software products and cloud platforms.

This role combines engineering leadership, product ownership, technical strategy, organizational development, and AI-driven transformation. The ideal candidate will have experience building engineering leaders, modernizing enterprise-scale platforms, and delivering measurable business and customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering organizations through engineering managers, architects, principal engineers, and senior technical leaders.
• Build, develop, and retain high-performing engineering teams, with a strong leadership and succession pipeline.
• Drive cloud modernization, platform scalability, reliability, maintainability, and engineering excellence.
• Lead AI-first transformation across software product development and engineering operations.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Data, Design, and Business teams to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Establish strong engineering practices to improve delivery predictability, quality, productivity, and accountability.
• Influence technology strategy, architecture decisions, and long-term platform investments.
• Lead organizational growth and contribute to global engineering strategy.

Required Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading large engineering organizations, ideally involving 60–150 engineers through engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Experience leading monolith-to-SaaS migration in high-trust domains such as tax, payments, banking, or ERP.
• Strong technical expertise in Java/Spring Boot or C#/.NET, with Python experience for AI.
• Hands-on understanding of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps, Terraform, SQL/NoSQL, and Snowflake.
• Strong knowledge of system design, architectural patterns, object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms.
• Understanding of multithreading, asynchronous programming, synchronization, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled products and implementing AI-first engineering practices.
• Strong business acumen, executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.