Head of Engineering & Application Delivery – General Insurance
Location: Bengaluru(On-site) |
Function: Technology | Level: Senior Leadership
Role Overview
Lead engineering and application delivery across Digit’s General Insurance technology portfolio, translating business priorities into scalable, resilient and high-quality solutions. This hands-on leadership role owns architecture, engineering standards, program execution, release governance and delivery excellence, while partnering with Product, Business, Infrastructure, Security and Executive Leadership.

Key Responsibilities
• Own end-to-end engineering and application delivery—from architecture and design through build, release and production—for strategic business programs.
• Set architecture direction for high-volume, scalable, resilient systems; review designs and resolve critical production, performance and scalability issues.
• Build configuration-driven, reusable platforms that accelerate launches for products, partners and regulatory changes.
• Drive predictable delivery through portfolio planning, milestone tracking,



risk management, escalation and senior stakeholder communication.
• Embed engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, observability, SRE and measurable DORA outcomes.
• Coordinate dependencies across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Business; ensure frequent, stable releases.
• Ensure compliance with data security, IRDAI norms and internal controls. • Build and mentor high-performing engineering, delivery and program teams with explicit accountability, lean structures and cost discipline.
Experience & Capabilities
• 15–18 years in software engineering or technology delivery, including senior leadership roles and a strong hands-on engineering foundation.
• Mandatory: General Insurance domain experience and proven leadership of large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering and delivery organizations of 100+ em

📌 Head of Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Go Digit General Insurance
📍 Bengaluru