SVP- Tech

Michael Page; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to impact millions of businesses

Chance to shape product and technology from the ground up

Job summary

A leading technology firm in India is looking for a senior tech leader to drive innovation in a new digital commerce platform. This role involves leading engineering teams, designing scalable architectures, and enhancing technology with AI. Candidates should have over 15 years of tech leadership experience, particularly in building distributed systems. This is a unique opportunity to impact millions of small businesses and consumers across the country by shaping the future of online commerce.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of total technology leadership experience.
• 3+ years in senior tech leadership roles.
• Proven experience in building and scaling complex distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of microservices and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience working with multi-stakeholder ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering, product technology, infrastructure, DevOps and QA.
• Conceptualise and design micro-service framework.
• Instil an AI-first approach to enhance the tech stack.
• Instil an AI-first approach to enhance the existing tech stack.
• Ensure reliability, security, resilience, and performance at scale.
• Build and lead high-performance engineering teams.
• Governance, standards, and best practices in engineering.
• Collaborate with product, business, ecosystem partners and govt/industry stakeholders.
• Drive innovation, prototyping and platform evolution.
• Manage budgets, vendor strategy and tech roadmap outcomes.

Skills

Technology leadership

Microservices

Cloud-native architecture

Product thinking

People leadership

Product thinking

People leadership

Architecture strategy

Job description

• The role offers a chance to solve meaningful challenges and build products
• Work on scale

About Our Client

Our client is a newly established entity within India's open digital commerce ecosystem, focused on enabling inclusive and accessible online commerce for small businesses, artisans, and farmers. Backed by a large national digital commerce initiative, the organization is building platforms that allow sellers across the country to participate seamlessly in the digital economy.

The team is currently developing a buyer-facing application aimed at simplifying discovery and purchasing from local sellers while ensuring interoperability across multiple commerce platforms. The platform is already seeing strong early traction and aspires to become a widely adopted solution that democratizes digital commerce in India.

Job Description

• Lead platform engineering, product technology, infrastructure, DevOps and QA functions
• Conceptualise and design micro-service framework; build micro-services from platform perspective
• Develop long-term scalable architecture designed for interoperability and network effects
• Instil an AI-first approach to enhance the existing tech stack and future-proof the platform
• Ensure reliability, security, resilience, and performance for population-scale usage
• Build and lead high-performance engineering teams and attract top tech talent
• Operationalise engineering governance, standards, and best practices
• Collaborate with product, business, ecosystem partners, and govt/industry stakeholders
• Drive innovation, experimentation, rapid prototyping and platform evolution
• Manage technology budgets, vendor strategy and tech roadmap outcomes

The Successful Applicant

• 15+ years of total technology leadership experience with 3+ years in senior tech leadership roles
• Proven experience in building and scaling complex distributed systems & platforms
• Deep understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, APIs, event-driven systems
• Exposure to digital commerce / public digital infrastructure / large-scale networks preferred
• Strong first principles + product thinking orientation
• Strong people leadership - building high-performing engineering culture
• Ability to drive architecture + business outcome thinking simultaneously
• Experience working with multi-stakeholder ecosystems

What's on Offer

Opportunity to work on a nation-scale digital commerce platform impacting millions of small businesses and consumers across India.

Chance to be part of a high-impact, early-stage team shaping product, technology, and strategy from the ground up.