About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 13

Director, Engineering Execution & Quality Enablement

Experience: 15+ years; Level: Director (L13)

Role Summary

As a Director, Engineering Execution & Quality Enablement, you will lead large-scale execution focused initiatives that deliver automation, platform reliability, and consistently high customer outcomes across a complex engineering portfolio. This role is not a traditional Quality Engineering leadership position. Instead, you will act as a hands‑on execution leader who ensures that automation, engineering excellence, and quality outcomes are actually delivered on the ground, not just defined in strategy decks.

You will bring deep experience in getting large automation and engineering initiatives done, working shoulder‑to‑shoulder with teams, removing friction, accelerating delivery, and improving the lived experience of engineers and quality practitioners. Your success will be measured by outcomes: working automation, faster feedback, predictable delivery, improved customer experience, and highly engaged engineering teams.

This role blends execution, people leadership, and pragmatic engineering judgment, with a solid bias toward action, simplification, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Execution-First Automation & Engineering Outcomes

- Own and drive end‑to‑end execution of automation and quality‑enabling initiatives across multiple teams and platforms.

- Ensure automation efforts move beyond pilots and POCs into scaled, adopted, and value‑producing solutions.

- Work directly with teams to unblock delivery issues, reduce complexity, and accelerate time to value.

- Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to embed quality and automation naturally into day‑to‑day engineering workflows rather than as a separate function.

- Drive practical use of AI‑enabled automation where it clearly improves speed, quality, or cost, with a strong focus on delivery results.

Quality Enablement (Not Policing)

- Shift the organization from quality as a gate to quality as an enabling capability owned by teams.

- Ensure teams have the tools, frameworks, data, and guidance they need to build quality in from the start.

- Champion fast feedback loops, risk‑based testing, and automation that meaningfully improves customer and business outcomes.

- Focus on defect prevention, early detection, and operational resilience, rather than post‑hoc defect reporting.

Engineering & Automation Evolution

- Lead pragmatic evolution of automation and testing approaches across teams with different maturity levels, meeting teams where they are.

- Drive consistent adoption of engineering fundamentals such as:

- Automation‑first thinking





- CI/CD‑integrated validation

- Shift‑left practices

- Testability and observability in system design

- Influence architecture and platform decisions to improve automation feasibility, reliability, and maintainability.

- Balance modern practices with the realities of regulated, market‑critical systems.

Delivery, Accountability & Metrics

- Own delivery outcomes across a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring predictable execution, transparency, and accountability.

- Use data to continuously assess:

- Effectiveness of automation

- Cost of quality

- Delivery throughput and bottlenecks

- Make clear trade‑offs between speed, risk, quality and compliance in day‑to‑day execution decisions.

- Ensure teams focus on outcomes over activity.

People Leadership & Team Experience

- Lead and develop a large, distributed organization of engineers, automation practitioners, and quality professionals (200+).

- Be a visible, accessible, and trusted leader on the ground, actively engaging with teams.

- Strongly focus on improving the day‑to‑day experience of quality engineers and developers:

- Reducing toil and frustration

- Improving tooling and clarity

- Supporting growth and career progression

- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Lead teams confidently through change, ambiguity, and evolving expectations.

Stakeholder & Partner Leadership

- Act as a trusted execution partner to Product, Engineering, Data, Risk, and Compliance leaders.

- Translate delivery progress, risks, and trade‑offs into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.

- Influence without relying on formal authority, using credibility, data, and delivery results.

- Represent execution and quality outcomes—not just functions—in governance and leadership forums.

Qualifications

- 15+ years of experience in engineering, automation, platform delivery, or quality enablement leadership.

- Proven track record of getting complex automation or engineering transformation initiatives delivered at scale.

- Strong hands‑on background in automation frameworks, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices (not necessarily from a traditional QE career path).

- Demonstrated ability to lead large, diverse teams with a robust execution and people‑first mindset.

- Experience operating in complex, regulated,



or high‑risk environments with real delivery accountability.

- Highly pragmatic, data‑driven decision maker with excellent stakeholder and executive communication skills.

Why This Role

- Lead execution at the intersection of Engineering, Automation, Quality, and AI, with a clear mandate to get things done.

- Make a visible, tangible impact on how teams deliver, experience their work, and serve customers.

- Shape a culture where quality is engineered into products, not enforced after the fact.

- Play a critical role in delivering high‑confidence, high‑availability platforms in a data‑intensive, regulated environment.

Benefits

- Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

- Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

- Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

- Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company‑matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

- Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P; Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best‑in class benefits for families.

- Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P; Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

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Job ID: 328416

Posted On: 2026-05-04

Location: Hyderabad, Telangāna, India

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📌 Director, Engineering Execution & Quality Enablement (Hyderabad)
🏢 S&P Global
📍 Hyderabad