Vice President Software Engineering
Experience: 18+ yrs
Location: Bengaluru
Job Type: full-time
One of India's fastest-growing Treasury & FinTech platform providers is looking for a seasoned technology leader to drive execution excellence across product development and large-scale client implementations.
This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who combines deep engineering expertise with strong delivery discipline. Exposure to Treasury, Banking, or Financial Markets will be a significant advantage.
Role Overview
As Vice President - Engineering & Delivery, you will own end-to-end technology delivery - leading product development as well as customer implementations. You will lead a team of architects, engineering managers, developers, testers, and implementation specialists while working closely with Product, Business, Client Services, and senior leadership.
You will bring a strong builder mindset, the ability to simplify complex problems, and proven experience delivering enterprise-grade platforms in multi-stakeholder environments.
Key Responsibilities
Project & Delivery Leadership
- Own delivery across all product development, enhancements, maintenance, and client implementation programs
- Build and enforce strong project governance, milestone tracking, risk management, and stakeholder communication frameworks
- Drive predictable, high-quality, and on-time delivery with clear accountability
Technology Oversight
- Guide architecture and design decisions focusing on scalability, performance, resilience, and seamless integrations
- Review critical designs, database models, APIs, and integration strategies
- Promote reusability, standardization, and modern engineering practices (Microservices, Cloud, DevOps)
Team & Capability Building
- Mentor and develop engineering managers, architects, and senior technical talent
- Build a high-performance engineering culture rooted in ownership, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement
- Partner with HR to attract, retain, and grow top engineering talent
Stakeholder & Domain Leadership
- Collaborate closely with Product, Business, and Client teams to align delivery priorities
- Engage directly with key customers during implementations, escalations, and strategic initiatives
- Apply strong domain understanding of treasury workflows, financial instruments, banking interfaces, and compliance requirements
Process Excellence
- Strengthen Agile/Scrum execution with real-world delivery rigor
- Institutionalize key metrics - velocity, defect rates, deployment reliability, and release cadence
- Bring discipline to estimation, capacity planning, documentation, and quality assurance
Requirements
- 15-20 years of experience in enterprise software delivery or product engineering
- Proven experience leading large, multi-team delivery programs at Director / AVP / VP or equivalent level
- Strong full-stack engineering understanding (UI, APIs, databases, integrations, and cloud architectures)
- Hands-on exposure to .NET, Java, Python, or similar scalable enterprise technology stacks
- Solid experience with relational databases, PL/SQL, and performance tuning
- Treasury, Banking, Financial Markets, Payments, or ERP domain experience is a strong advantage
- Excellent leadership presence, communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills
Why This Role?
- Play a pivotal role in building mission-critical financial technology platforms
- Lead engineering and delivery at scale in a fast-growing FinTech environment
- Significant opportunity to shape technical strategy and engineering culture
