Company Description

Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. We help organisations solve complex business challenges by combining deep domain understanding with up-to-date data and AI capabilities. Our teams work across strategy, analytics, engineering, and product delivery to create scalable, high-value solutions that improve decision-making, efficiency, and growth.

Job Description

Blend is seeking an Associate Director to lead the Platform Engineering workstream on a global product delivery. This is a senior, client-facing leadership role. The individual will own the platform engineering workstream end-to-end, act as the primary escalation point to the Delivery Leads, make key technical decisions in partnership with the client, and actively develop junior members of the platform team.
Responsibilities
- Lead on project delivery and governance for the Platform Engineering workstream.
- Support and develop Platform Engineers across the engagement,



providing technical direction and day-to-day guidance.
- Build and maintain a scalable, secure, and reliable cloud platform on Microsoft Azure, covering infrastructure, networking, identity, and environment strategy.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and environment automation for engineering and data workloads.
- Define and promote best practices for infrastructure as code, security, monitoring, and observability across the team.
- Act as the primary escalation point to Delivery Leads for platform risks, blockers, and issues bringing context and recommended options, not just problems.
- Operate as Blend's senior technical for representative platform engineering in client-facing settings, building trusted relationships with client engineering and architecture stakeholders.
- Own key platform engineering decisions when working alongside the client, translating technical trade-offs into clear, busines

📌 Associate Director (Hyderabad)
🏢 Blend360
📍 Hyderabad