Head of Engineering

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 :