The Head of Digital Engineering, India is ADM’s India execution and scale leader, accountable for engineering delivery capacity, velocity, and quality across Digital & Technology.This role builds and runs ADM’s India digital hub as a global execution engine—delivering Finance products, AI capabilities, and enterprise digital engineering at scale—while acting as site leader for talent attraction, retention, and leadership development.

Your Responsibilities

India as a Global Execution Engine

- Own end‑to‑end engineering execution from India across Finance products, AI platforms, and priority enterprise digital products.
- Scale India from ~80 to ~160 engineers by 2026 with predictable delivery, high quality, and strong bench strength.
- Ensure India contributes materially to ADM’s digital outcomes—not supplemental capacity.

Finance &

• AI Product Delivery

- Build and scale 2–3 core Finance products in partnership with Product leaders.
- Lead India’s contribution to AI build across GT and the business, including data pipelines, ML engineering enablement, and applied AI use cases.
- Ensure delivery meets enterprise standards, security expectations, and measurable business outcomes.

Engineering Quality, Speed, and Accountability
- Enforce engineering standards, delivery discipline, and quality bars across India teams.
- Own staffing decisions for squads, delivery commitments, and engineering performance.
- Actively remove delivery friction, skills gaps, and underperformance.

Talent, Leadership &

• Site Ownership

- Serve as India site leader for Digital &

• Technology.

- Build a strong leadership layer (Directors, Senior Managers, Chapter Leads).
- Own talent attraction, retention, engagement, and succession for India engineering.
- Partner with HR on early-career pipelines, lateral hiring, and leadership development.

Enterprise Partnership
- Partner closely with VP Product, VP Digital Factory,



VP Data &

• AI, Enterprise Architecture, Tech Ops, and CISO.

- Represent India delivery transparently with US and global leaders—clear commitments, transparent risks, no surprises.

Your Interfaces & Scope

Primary Partners

Product, Digital Factory, Data & AI, Enterprise Architecture, Tech Ops, CISO, D&T; Value Office

Operating Model:

- Product owns what and why
- Digital Factory owns global engineering model and tooling
- This role owns India execution, talent, and delivery outcomes

Capabilities Owned
- AI &

• Applied Engineering Delivery

- Test Engineering &

• Quality Assurance

- Automation &

• RPA Development

- Software Engineering (Full Stack Development, API and Integration development)
- Engineering Leadership &

• Talent Management (India)

- Squad Staffing &

• Delivery Accountability

- India Hub Operations (delivery-facing only)

Success Measures (12–18 Months)

- India scale: 160 engineers with stable leadership and low regretted attrition
- Delivery: 2–3 Finance products live with adoption and business ownership
- AI impact: Measurable GT and business AI capabilities delivered from India
- Velocity & quality: Improved cycle time, fewer escaped defects, predictable delivery
- Talent: Strong leadership bench; India viewed as a destination hub, not a cost center

Your Profile

- 15+ years leading large‑scale digital or software engineering teams
- Proven experience scaling technology hubs in India
- Strong delivery background across enterprise platforms and digital products




- Senior‑level stakeholder management with global teams
- Deep people leadership and talent‑building experience
- Finance product or enterprise systems experience
- AI / data‑enabled product delivery exposure
- Experience operating in a product‑led engineering model
- Multi‑region enterprise delivery environments

About ADM

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