Vice President - Engineering Development for Life Insurance Projects

Sapiens; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapiens is seeking a VP of Development for Life Projects to lead global engineering delivery from Bengaluru. This executive role drives strategy, governance, and multi-site teams across complex enterprise-scale programs in Life software.

You will own the vision, champion Agile and AI-driven engineering, and partner with leadership to scale a high-performing field development function while maintaining delivery excellence for customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 20+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years in senior engineering leadership roles.
• Experience leading large, global, multi-site teams and delivering enterprise-scale projects.
• Strong track record building and scaling AI usage in engineering and design.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap across Life delivery engineering.
• Build, lead, and scale a global, multi-site engineering organization.
• Own the engineering governance framework: standards, policies, metrics, KPIs, and reporting.
• Champion Agile, SAFe, and iterative delivery with high quality; adopt AI-augmented practices.
• Drive engineering excellence: coding standards, design patterns, technical debt reduction, and release governance.

Skills

Executive leadership

Global teams

System design

AI in engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Job description

VP, Development, Life Projects

Sapiens is on the lookout for a VP Developement to become a key player in our Bangalore team. If you're a seasoned Executive and ready to take your career to new heights with an established, globally successful company, this role could be the perfect fit.

Location: Bangalore

Working Model: Our flexible work arrangement combines both remote and in-office work, optimizing flexibility and productivity.

This position will be part of Sapiens Life & Pension division, for more information about it, click here: https://sapiens.com/solutions/life-and-pension-software/

Description

The VP, Field Development, Life Delivery owns the vision, strategy, and execution of engineering delivery across the complex, high-performance, enterprise-scale projects based on Sapiens' global Life product suite.

The role spans the global organization of Architects, Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, and developers embedded in customer implementation, SaaS migration and SaaS support programs.

The owner sets enterprise-wide delivery engineering standards and governance, and partners with delivery leadership to enhance engineering quality across the insurance platform.

The role combines strategic leadership, organizational and budget ownership, process and AI-led automation modernization, of field development engineering to scale a high-performing, accountable global field development function.

Key Responsibilities

Define and own the strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap across engineering for all Life delivery projects. Build, lead, and scale a global, multi-site engineering organization, including Technical Architects, Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, and developers. Own the engineering governance framework for development on Life projects, including standards, policies, metrics, KPIs, and executive-level reporting on engineering status, risk, and release readiness across all Life products and releases. Champion Agile, SAFE and iterative delivery practices across the delivery organization, ensuring engineering delivers in an iterative way and with high quality. Define and govern enterprise-wide adoption of AI-augmented engineering practices, including AI-assisted code generation, defect and failure analysis, predictive development insights, and responsible-AI usage standards. Drive engineering excellence across the delivery organization: coding standards, design patterns, code review discipline, technical debt reduction, non-functional requirements, and release governance. Build organizational capability through hiring, org design, career pathing, succession planning, and development of Managers and future leaders. Drive continuous improvement in engineering culture and practices.

Must Have Skills & Qualifications

Experience & Background

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 20+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior engineering leadership (VP, Senior Director, or Head of Engineering) roles managing large, global, multi-site teams. Proven experience leading scaled and skilled development organizations, across engineering for functional and non-functional engineering functions across multiple geographies. Strong track record of building and scaling AI usage in engineering and design, AI-assisted coding, automated unit testing, documentation, and release agents. Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare or other complex, regulated enterprise software domains is strongly preferred.

Technical & Functional Skills

Deep technical grounding in Object-Oriented Programming, relational databases, design patterns, and system design fundamentals, with the credibility to engage at a hands-on level when needed. Proven track record architecting, delivering, and owning complex, high-performance, enterprise-scale components and platforms. Strong command of delivery engineering governance frameworks appropriate for enterprise-scale delivery. Expert-level understanding of relational databases and SQL, enterprise integration layers, and performance-critical systems at scale. Strong orientation toward performance optimization and reliability, including identifying and resolving bottlenecks across applications, databases, and integrations at an organization level.

Communication & Executive Leadership

Executive-level communication and influencing skills, with the ability to represent engineering strategy, risk, and platform modernization progress clear to senior leadership, clients, and the board when required. Strong people-leadership capability, including building high-performing global engineering teams, mentoring senior technical leaders, and developing future engineering executives. Clear, confident communicator in cross-functional and global environments, comfortable engaging directly with enterprise clients on strategic technical matters. Demonstrated change-management and organizational-transformation experience, with the ability to align diverse global stakeholders around a shared technical vision.

Personal Attributes

Strategic technical leader with strong ownership and accountability for global engineering outcomes, platform health, and organizational scale. Decisive under ambiguity, resilient under pressure, and comfortable balancing rigor, speed, and practicality across a large, global organization. Change-oriented mindset with readiness to be hands-on when needed.

About Sapiens

Sapiens is a global leader in the insurance industry, delivering its award-winning, cloud-based SaaS insurance platform to over 600 customers in more than 30 countries. Sapiens' platform offers pre-integrated, low-code capabilities to accelerate customers’ digital transformation. With more than 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens has a highly professional team of over 5,000 employees globally. For More information visit us on www.sapiens.com.

Sapiens is an equal opportunity employer.

We value diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment that embraces individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Experience Level

Executive Level