Lead - Engineering & Delivery

Digit Insurance; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Go Digit General Insurance Limited is seeking a technical engineering leader to own architecture, solution delivery, and platform modernization initiatives. You will provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and drive scalable enterprise applications and automation platforms.

Responsibilities include defining architecture standards, leading teams, driving backend systems, API and microservices design, and ensuring delivery readiness with risk management and architectural

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering or technology delivery experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in Python and backend engineering.
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and SQL.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Platforms, and CI/CD.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale software applications.
• Strong stakeholder management and technical decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture standards and engineering roadmaps.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through technical leadership.
• Architect scalable backend systems, automation platforms, and enterprise integration solutions.
• Drive adoption of reusable services, frameworks, and engineering standards.
• Own delivery planning, execution, dependency management, risk mitigation, and release readiness.
• Conduct architecture reviews and critical code reviews.
• Establish standards for security, reliability, performance, observability, and cost optimization.
• Partner with business teams to prioritize technology initiatives.
• Mentor engineering leaders through coaching and technical guidance.
• Drive platform modernization and engineering excellence initiatives.

Skills

Python

Backend engineering

APIs & microservices

Distributed systems

SQL

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud Platforms

Job description

We are looking for a technical engineering leader to own architecture, solution delivery, and platform modernization initiatives. The role will provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and drive the development of scalable enterprise applications and automation platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Define architecture standards and engineering roadmaps.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through technical leadership.
• Architect scalable backend systems, automation platforms, and enterprise integration solutions.
• Drive adoption of reusable services, frameworks, and engineering standards.
• Own delivery planning, execution, dependency management, risk mitigation, and release readiness.
• Conduct architecture reviews and critical code reviews.
• Establish standards for security, reliability, performance, observability, and cost optimization.
• Partner with business teams to prioritize technology initiatives.
• Mentor engineering leaders through coaching and technical guidance.
• Drive platform modernization and engineering excellence initiatives.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering or technology delivery experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in Python and backend engineering.
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and SQL.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Platforms, and CI/CD.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale software applications.
• Strong stakeholder management and technical decision-making abilities.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in Insurance, BFSI, FinTech, or other regulated industries.
• Exposure to workflow automation, search platforms, knowledge management systems, or intelligent business applications.