The Job in Short
The Engineering Director runs engineering for the region, leading a group of engineering managers and the teams that deliver and customise our product for customers. You raise the bar through technical credibility rather than headcount, and you partner closely with technical and architecture leaders to make sure how we build matches what we build.
You are a technologist first, accountable for engineering quality and how AI and automation reshape our delivery.

Meet the Job
Engineering Direction: Set the direction for how engineering is run in the region, with a focus on integrating AI and agentic workflows into how teams deliver, customise, and extend the product for customers.
You translate global technical standards into regional execution; your managers carry it into the teams.
Technical Partnership: Work closely with technical leadership, governance, and architecture peers to ensure engineering practices and solution decisions in the region align with the broader technical direction.




Partner with technical leads and architects so the right decisions get made close to the work, within the established guardrails, and escalate cross-cutting trade-offs through the right channels.
Engineering Excellence: Own how engineering operates across the region. You set the standards for quality, velocity, and ways of working that hold across every customer engagement; your managers operationalise them inside their teams. You work as an equal partner to delivery and technical leadership, jointly accountable for customer success.
Lead by Example: Stay close enough to the stack to remain credible. You are the leader engineers bring their hardest problems to, and the one who unblocks the team by diving into complex customer issues, integration challenges, or proving out current solution patterns.
Agentic Ways of Working: Champion the regional rollout of our agentic engineering operating model. This is a fundamental shift in how engineering gets done, and you are accou

📌 Engineering Director (Hyderabad)
🏢 Backbase
📍 Hyderabad