Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Strategy

- Lead
NSDC's Engineering & Delivery function, providing strategic direction
for software engineering, platform engineering, site reliability
engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, quality engineering, and enterprise
application delivery.

- Establish
engineering strategies, standards, and governance frameworks that deliver
secure, scalable, resilient, and high -performing digital platforms aligned
with organizational objectives.


Engineering Governance

- Define
and enforce engineering standards, software development lifecycle (SDLC),
architecture compliance, coding practices, quality gates, and technology
governance across all engineering teams and delivery partners.

- Drive
engineering excellence through metrics, continuous improvement, technical
debt management, and adoption of industry best practices.


Platform Delivery

- Own
end -to -end engineering delivery for NSDC's Digital Public Infrastructure
(DPI), Government Scheme Platform (SIDH), Digital Business applications,
and enterprise systems.

- Ensure
solutions are delivered on time, meet business requirements, and comply
with security, performance, accessibility, and regulatory standards.


DevSecOps, Reliability & Operations

- Lead
DevSecOps, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), production
operations, incident management, disaster recovery, and observability
practices to ensure high platform availability and operational resilience.

- Establish
engineering practices that embed security, automation, reliability, and
operational excellence throughout the software development lifecycle.






Quality & Compliance

- Govern
quality assurance, testing, performance engineering, accessibility, and
application security to ensure all technology solutions meet
organisational and regulatory requirements.

- Ensure
compliance with applicable Government standards, cybersecurity policies,
and data protection regulations through secure engineering practices.

Architecture & Technology

- Partner
with Architecture teams to ensure engineering implementation aligns with
approved enterprise architecture, technology standards, and
interoperability requirements.

- Drive
adoption of up-to-date engineering practices, cloud technologies, automation,
API governance, and reusable platform capabilities.


Vendor & Delivery Management

- Govern
engineering delivery by internal teams and external technology partners,
ensuring adherence to engineering standards, contractual commitments,
quality expectations, and knowledge transfer requirements.

- Monitor
engineering performance, delivery risks, and vendor effectiveness through
defined governance and performance metrics.


Engineering Capability

- Build
a high -performing engineering organisation by attracting, developing,
mentoring,



and retaining technical talent while fostering collaboration,
innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

- Develop
internal engineering capabilities and reduce dependency on external
vendors in strategic technology domains.


Stakeholder Management

- Collaborate
with Product, Architecture, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Data,
Programme Management, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless
delivery of strategic technology initiatives.

- Provide
regular updates to the CTO and executive leadership on engineering
performance, risks, delivery progress, and continuous improvement
initiatives.


Continuous Improvement

- Drive
continuous improvement across engineering processes, delivery practices,
platform reliability, automation, and operational efficiency to support
NSDC's long -term digital transformation goals.