Vice President – Engineering

Educational Qualification
B.Tech./B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline (Must have)
M.Tech./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred
Certifications (Desirable): Cloud/architecture professional (AWS/Azure/GCP), TOGAF, or programme-management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe)
Experience
15+ years of experience in software engineering, platform, or product engineering, with a substantial record of senior technical and organisational leadership
Proven experience leading the design, delivery, and operation of large-scale, high-availability software platforms in production
Extensive people-leadership experience, having led multi-disciplinary engineering organisations, including engineering managers and technical leads
Track record of delivering large, multi-workstream technology programmes to schedule and budget, with accountability for outcomes, quality, reliability, and cost
Demonstrated experience owning technology strategy and architecture for an enterprise or platform operating at scale
Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, including talent acquisition, capability development, and the management of delivery partners and vendors
Strong, current technical grounding in modern software architecture and engineering practice, with the standing to set technical direction and make architecture decisions
Prior Government/PSU experience is not essential; the ability to operate within public-sector requirements for data protection, sovereign infrastructure, procurement, and audit is expected
Key Responsibilities
Programme Leadership & Strategy
Set the vision, strategy, and delivery roadmap for engineering services across Digital India platforms and cross-ministerial systems
Lead the end-to-end delivery of the programme’s portfolio of engineering initiatives across the capability teams, ensuring timely, high-quality, and measurable outcomes
Establish and run programme governance — planning, prioritisation, risk management, and delivery reporting — and present progress and outcomes to NeGD leadership
Own the programme budget and cost governance, ensuring efficient use of infrastructure, tooling, and manpower against the approved envelope
Technical & Architectural Direction
Own the engineering technical strategy and target-state architecture across capability teams — Platform Engineering; Application Development; API & Integration Services; Data & Analytics Engineering; DevOps & Site Reliability; and Quality Engineering
Set standards for technology selection and build-versus-buy decisions, including the use of open-source components, cloud-native services, and sovereign infrastructure
Act as the design authority for the programme, approving reference architectures, integration standards, engineering frameworks, and deployment patterns
Ensure reusable engineering components — APIs, SDKs, shared libraries, and templates — are produced to a common standard and published for cross-ministry reuse
Organisation & Delivery
Mentor the engineering teams and the capability-pod leadership, scaling the organisation in line with validated demand
Direct and coordinate the programme’s functional and technical resources as a single, integrated delivery organisation
Establish the operating model, engineering standards, and delivery culture for a fast-growing national engineering capability
Establish DevOps/SRE practices — CI/CD, release management, monitoring for reliability and performance, and cost-effective operations at production scale
Empanelment, Procurement & Partnerships
Govern the engagement of empanelled agencies at the discovered L1 rate card across resource, project, and turnkey modes — including agency selection, performance management, acceptance, and service levels
Manage relationships with technology, cloud, and infrastructure providers, including commercial terms, performance, and risk
Governance, Security & Compliance
Ensure all engineering systems are delivered in line with applicable governance frameworks — risk assessment, change management, quality assurance, and audit
Ensure security and data protection by design across the programme, in line with MeitY security standards, CERT-In directions, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
Ensure the appropriate use of sovereign infrastructure and coordinate with other MeitY agencies where relevant
Technical Competencies
Software Engineering & Architecture: Strong command of modern software engineering — distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, and full-stack application development
DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, release management, monitoring, and reliable production operations at scale
Solution & Platform Architecture: Microservices, event-driven and API-based design, service gateways, and multi-cloud, on-premise, and sovereign deployment patterns
Quality Engineering & Testing: Automated testing frameworks, performance testing, and quality assurance practices across the software development lifecycle
Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud architecture, identity and access management, scalability and reliability, and observability
Cost Governance: Unit economics and cost management for compute, storage, and infrastructure, and forecasting against a programme budget
Programme & Delivery Management: Programme governance, portfolio prioritisation, budgeting, risk management, and multi-workstream delivery
Security, Data Protection & Compliance: Access control, encryption, audit, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, CERT-In directions, and MeitY security standards
Organisational Leadership: Organisation design, hiring and capability development, performance management, and the management of delivery partners and vendors
Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Executive communication of strategy, progress, and risk; leading technical reviews; and building alignment across technical and functional teams

Work arrangement
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