Key Responsibilities

Organizational & People Leadership

• Own the leadership, structure, and outcome of multiple engineering teams delivering Infinia S3, POSIX, and NFS offerings, with teams located in India and internationally.
• Build and scale an agile, high-performing engineering organization: strong technical bar, high accountability, and a culture where teams take genuine ownership of what they ship.
• Recruit, develop, and retain strong engineering managers and engineers; build a durable leadership bench across all sites.
• Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and run rigorous, fair performance and career development processes for the org.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture across a geographically distributed team, ensuring engineers everywhere feel equally informed, included, and empowered.
• Champion developer experience across the organization: streamlined onboarding, clear documentation, and low-friction tooling, so engineers at every site can ramp quickly and stay productive.

End-to-End Execution & Delivery Ownership





• Own execution end to end for the S3, POSIX, and NFS offerings, from planning and prioritization through delivery, quality, and production readiness.
• Define and continuously improve the engineering processes, release practices, and quality gates that let distributed teams ship enterprise-grade software predictably.
• Track delivery against commitments; proactively surface risks, trade-offs, and blockers to stakeholders and drive them to resolution.
• Ensure consistent engineering standards and practices across all teams and locations, so quality and velocity don't vary by geography.
• Drive adoption of up-to-date engineering practices and AI-assisted development tools as a standard part of how the organization works.
• Continuously invest in engineering productivity: build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling, to reduce cycle time and maximize the org's shipping velocity.

Technical Leadership

• Bring a strong

📌 Senior Director, Data Platform Services (India)
🏢 DDN
📍 India