Job Title : Director / Head of Engineering
Location : Hyderabad, IN
Type : Full-Time | Leadership | IT Professional Services
About the Role :
SIDGS is seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Engineering to lead a high-performing, global engineering team structured around PODs and shared service towers. This role demands a strategic leader who thrives in a professional services environment and can scale delivery across complex, multi-disciplinary teams including App Dev, Web Dev, DevSecOps, Cloud, SRE, Data & AI, and Solution Architecture.
The Director will be accountable for engineering excellence, process governance, talent growth, and technical innovation across our portfolio of client engagements.
Key Responsibilities :
- Leadership & Team Management :
- Lead a matrixed engineering organization comprised of multiple PODs and shared services.
- Drive alignment across functional engineering towers and shared services (R&D, DevSecOps, Cloud, InfoSec, etc.).
- Mentor Engineering Leads and promote continuous technical and leadership development.
- Delivery Oversight :
- Own end-to-end accountability for engineering deliverables, including build, deployment, SRE, and support functions.
- Ensure adherence to engineering standards, secure coding practices, and audit readiness.
- Oversee operational metrics, DevSecOps pipelines, SRE operations, and cloud infra governance.
- Strategic Execution :
- Collaborate with Solution Engineering and Sales to support pre-sales, estimation, and proposal development.
- Drive the adoption of emerging technologies such as GenAI, Vertex AI, and LangChain into client solutions.
- Champion reusable reference architectures and knowledge sharing via COPs.
- Governance and Quality :
- Lead Engineering Process Governance & Audit (PG&A).
- Set and monitor KPIs for engineering productivity, code quality, CI / CD performance, and uptime.
- Ensure security compliance, including CVE remediation and DAST / SAST implementation.
- Innovation and R&D :
- Partner with internal R&D teams to pilot new technologies and integrate them into practice.
- Promote certification tracks, hackathons, and experimentation in modern cloud-native and AI-based architectures.
Key Qualifications :
12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.Proven track record managing geographically distributed engineering teams in a services or consulting firm.Deep understanding of :Cloud platforms (GCP++, AWS, Azure)CI / CD, DevSecOps (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD, etc.)SRE tools (GCP Ops Suite, DataDog, Dynatrace)Full-stack engineering (React, Flutter, SpringBoot, Kubernetes)AI / ML and GenAI platforms (Vertex AI, LangChain, Vector DBs)Strong program / project management acumen with a bias for execution.Demonstrated experience in solution architecture and client delivery management.Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science or related field preferred.Certifications in cloud (GCP, AWS), DevSecOps, or AI / ML are a plus.