Key Responsibilities:Engineering delivery

● Own the delivery performance of the engineering organisation — predictable releases, credible estimates, and commitments that are met.

● Lead multiple engineering teams across platform, product and integration domains through their line managers, typically 80–150 engineers.

● Set and enforce engineering standards: architecture governance, code review,

CI/CD, observability, security-by-design and technical documentation.

● Partner with Product, Operations and Commercial leadership to translate business priorities into a sequenced, resourced engineering plan.

● Manage the engineering budget, vendor and partner relationships, and workforce planning within agreed financial parameters.

Quality engineering

● Own the quality strategy across the estate — test automation, workplace and test data management, performance and resilience testing, and release assurance.

● Drive measurable improvement in defect escape rate, production incident volume,

mean time to recovery and change failure rate.

● Embed quality accountability within delivery teams rather than at a downstream gate, while maintaining independent assurance where regulation or client contracts require it.

● Ensure engineering practice satisfies our obligations under ISO 27001, GDPR and the data protection regimes of the jurisdictions we operate in.

Innovation

● Run a small, deliberately scoped innovation function that evaluates emerging technology — particularly applied AI, intelligent document processing and automation — against real verification problems.

● Take a disciplined approach to experimentation: clear hypotheses, time-boxed proofs of concept, honest kill decisions, and a defined route from prototype into production.

● Advise the CTO and Executive Committee on technology direction, build-versus-buy decisions and modernisation of legacy components.





Leadership

● Build, develop and retain a high-calibre leadership bench; grow engineering managers and principal engineers into their next role.

● Represent Technology credibly with executive stakeholders, regulators, auditors and enterprise clients.

● Deputise for the CTO on operational and governance matters as required.

Experience & Qualifications

Essential

● 18+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years leading engineering organisations of 50+ people through subordinate managers.

● Demonstrable track record of turning delivery predictability and software quality around, evidenced by metrics rather than assertion.

● Deep hands-on grounding in modern engineering practice — cloud-native architecture, microservices, API design, DevSecOps and test automation —

sufficient to hold architects and principal engineers to account.

● Experience operating in a regulated, data-sensitive or compliance-driven environment.

● Proven ability to run an engineering budget and manage third-party delivery partners.

● A knack for turning information into knowledge to report on success and to drive change.

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

● Excellent written and spoken English, with the presence to hold an executive room.

Desirable

● Experience in background screening, digital identity, FinTech, GovTech or HRTech.

● Exposure to applied AI or machine learning in a production setting,



especially with regards to Quality Assurance and automated delivery

● Experience working across a multi-site, multi-time-zone organisation, ideally with a

Middle East or global client base.

● Master's degree or MBA.

Competencies In this role we would be looking for the following traits to shine through in order to seal your successful career development:

● Ownership — treats delivery commitments as personal commitments.

● Judgement — makes sound calls with incomplete information and explains the reasoning.

● Candour — surfaces bad news early and accurately.

● Talent builder — measured by the strength of the leaders they develop.

● Commercial literacy — connects engineering choices to client outcomes and cost.

● Care — leads with empathy and holds a high bar at the same time.

Success in the First 12 Months

● A clear, evidenced baseline of delivery and quality performance, and a published improvement plan against it.

● Measurable reduction in defect escape rate and production incidents.

● Release predictability materially improved against committed dates.

● A strengthened leadership team with succession identified for every critical engineering role.

● At least two innovation initiatives progressed from concept to a production decision.

What We Offer

● A senior leadership seat with genuine scope, executive visibility and a explicit route for further progression.

● Competitive base salary and performance-related bonus, benchmarked to the upper quartile of the Delhi NCR market, plus comprehensive benefits.

● The opportunity to lead engineering for a global business whose work protects the public in more than 200 countries and territories.

● Working from our Noida office with occasional work-from-home arrangements.

● Occasional international travel.

📌 Senior Director of Software Engineering (Noida)
🏢 Nastech Consulting
📍 Noida