Head - Application Delivery

Digit Insurance; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Digit Insurance in Bengaluru, a leading digital insurer, is seeking a Head of Application Delivery & Engineering to define and execute the engineering strategy and to scale high-performing teams. You will lead multi-disciplinary groups and partner with Product, Business, and Executive Leadership to deliver scalable technology platforms.

The role emphasizes ownership, innovation, and operational excellence, guiding architecture, security, and delivery across all engineering domains in a

Qualifications

• 12–18 years of software engineering experience.
• Minimum 5 years in senior engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience building scalable, customer-facing systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, APIs, and databases.
• Experience with modern engineering environments using cloud tech, microservices, DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering vision, technology roadmap, and long-term architecture strategy.
• Lead and scale engineering teams across backend, frontend, mobile, platform, integration, and data engineering.
• Drive high-quality, predictable delivery aligned with business priorities.
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, availability, and security.
• Champion microservices, cloud-native architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, and SRE.
• Translate strategic objectives into executable technology roadmaps with Product and Business.
• Build, mentor, and develop engineering leaders and senior technical talent.
• Establish architecture governance and drive technical debt reduction.
• Ensure data security, regulatory compliance, and risk controls.
• Evaluate, select, and manage technology vendors and strategic investments.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on innovation and operational excellence.

Skills

Software architecture

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Microservices

DevOps & CI/CD

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Job description

Head of Application Delivery & Engineering
Location: Bengaluru
Function: Technology
Level: Senior Leadership
Work Mode: All 5 Days work from Office

About Digit Insurance

Digit is built by technologists and problem-solvers who believe insurance should be simple, fast, and human. Technology is at the core of our differentiation, enabling us to build flexible, scalable products across all lines of business while delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced technology leader to head our Application Delivery & Engineering function. This role will be responsible for defining and executing Digit's engineering strategy, scaling high-performing engineering teams, and ensuring delivery excellence across all technology platforms. The incumbent will work closely with Product, Business, and Executive Leadership to build scalable, resilient, secure, and future-ready technology solutions while fostering a strong engineering culture driven by ownership, innovation, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering vision, technology roadmap, and long-term architecture strategy.
• Lead and scale engineering teams across backend, frontend, mobile, platform, integration, and data engineering functions.
• Drive high-quality and predictable delivery aligned with business and product priorities.
• Ensure platform scalability, system reliability, performance, availability, and security.
• Champion modern engineering practices including Microservices, Cloud-Native Architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Partner with Product and Business teams to translate strategic objectives into executable technology roadmaps.
• Build, mentor, and develop engineering leaders and senior technical talent.
• Establish architecture governance and drive technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Ensure adherence to data security standards, regulatory requirements, risk controls, and compliance frameworks.
• Evaluate, select, and manage technology vendors, partners, and strategic engineering investments.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on innovation, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 12 to 18 years of overall software engineering experience.
• Minimum 5 years in senior engineering leadership roles managing large engineering teams.
• Proven experience building and scaling highly available, distributed, customer-facing systems.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), APIs, databases, and enterprise application delivery.
• Demonstrated experience in modern engineering environments leveraging cloud technologies, microservices, DevOps, and CI/CD frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
• Exceptional people leadership skills with a track record of building high-performing engineering organizations.
• Mandatory experience in the Insurance domain.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in General Insurance, Life Insurance, InsurTech, or FinTech organizations.
• Exposure to Data Platforms, Event-Driven Architectures, AI/ML-enabled systems, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience managing geographically distributed or multi-location engineering teams.
• Familiarity with operating within highly regulated environments.

Desired Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Thinking
• Execution Excellence
• Engineering Leadership
• Enterprise Architecture Mindset
• Business Acumen
• Change Management
• Stakeholder Influence
• Talent Development
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Why Join Digit?

• Opportunity to shape the technology vision of one of India's leading digital insurance companies.
• Lead enterprise-scale engineering transformation initiatives.
• Work closely with executive leadership and business stakeholders.
• Build and scale next-generation digital insurance platforms that serve millions of customers.