Location - Bengaluru, India

Scope - 400–600 engineers across multiple delivery towers, leading through directors and delivery leads

Engagement - Multi-year core platform program for a Fortune 50 hi-tech client

The Role

Ascendion is looking for an engineering leader to own the build of the core platforms behind a Fortune 50 hi-tech client's product line, the software that ships inside and alongside the products their customers buy.

This is a builder's job, not a rollout job. You will run a 400–600 person engineering organization across software engineering, quality engineering, data platform, and firmware-adjacent delivery, and you will be accountable for what that organization ships: architecture, code quality, release predictability, and production stability. The client measures you on working software in their products, not on program artifacts.

You will do it in an AI-native delivery model. Ascendion builds with agentic AI and AI-assisted engineering embedded in the SDLC,



and this role owns the hard part of that making it produce measurable throughput and quality gains across hundreds of engineers, in the client's own toolchain, under the client's own engineering standards. The engaging problem here is not whether AI can write code. It is what an engineering organization looks like when it does.

What You'll Own

The engineering organization. End-to-end accountability for 400–600 engineers across multiple delivery towers structure, leadership bench, capability, and performance. You will lead through directors and delivery leads, not individual contributors.
Technical outcomes. Architecture decisions, engineering standards, code quality, test strategy, release readiness and production stability across the platforms in scope. You own the technical bar, and you defend it.
Delivery predictability. Sprint-level commitment reliability, release cadence, defect and escape rates, and time-to-productivity for new engineers. The client runs a metrics-driven governa

📌 Head of Application Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ascendion
📍 Bengaluru