This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 15000000 - Rs 20000000 (ie INR 150 - 200 LPA)

Min Experience: 15+ years

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

JobType: full-time

We are seeking an accomplished Senior Director – Engineering with 15–27 years of experience to provide strategic and technical leadership across engineering teams, products, and large-scale technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of building high-performing engineering organizations, delivering complex and scalable platforms, and driving technology strategy aligned with business objectives.

This role requires a senior technology leader who can operate at both strategic and technical levels, mentor engineering leaders, establish strong engineering practices, and champion innovation. Exposure to Agentic AI and modern AI-driven engineering approaches will be a strong advantage.

Key Responsibilities

Define and execute the engineering strategy, architecture roadmap, and technology vision in alignment with organizational goals.

Lead multiple engineering teams and senior technical leaders, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Oversee the design, development, deployment, and scalability of highly reliable, secure, and high-performance technology platforms.

Establish engineering standards, development methodologies, architecture principles, and best practices across teams.

Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, Operations, and Business leadership to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.

Drive modernization initiatives, platform transformation, cloud adoption, automation, and engineering productivity improvements.

Build and maintain robust technical leadership pipelines through mentoring, coaching, hiring, and succession planning.

Own engineering execution, delivery quality, technical risks, resource planning, and organizational capacity.





Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve products, engineering workflows, and operational efficiency.

Encourage experimentation and adoption of Agentic AI, AI-powered automation, intelligent workflows, and autonomous systems where appropriate.

Establish metrics and governance mechanisms to monitor engineering productivity, reliability, quality, delivery, and business impact.

Ensure engineering practices meet high standards for security, scalability, performance, compliance, and reliability.

Required Qualifications

15–27 years of overall experience in software engineering, technology, or engineering leadership.

Significant experience leading large, distributed, or multi-disciplinary engineering organizations.

Proven experience managing senior engineering managers, architects, principal engineers, and technical leaders.

Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, databases, and modern engineering practices.

Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, business-critical technology platforms and products.

Strong organizational, stakeholder-management, communication, and strategic planning abilities.

Experience driving engineering transformation, process optimization, and technology modernization initiatives.

Good-to-Have Skills

Agentic AI

Generative AI and LLM-based applications

AI agents, autonomous workflows, and multi-agent systems

AI-driven developer productivity and automation

Cloud-native architecture and AI/ML infrastructure

Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise products

Leadership Attributes The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and strong people leader who can balance long-term technology vision with execution. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing senior stakeholders, making high-impact technical decisions, and building organizations capable of delivering innovative products at scale.

📌 Senior Director - Engineering (Chennai)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Chennai