As an Associate Director of Engineering, you will drive technology vision, execution excellence, and organisational capability for a business unit. You will operate at the intersection of strategy and delivery, shaping architecture, scaling teams, and ensuring high-quality product outcomes aligned with business goals.

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions :

Technology Strategy and Architecture :

- Define and own the technology roadmap for multiple products or platforms within the business unit, ensuring alignment with the organisation's long-term technology vision.

- Govern architectural decisions across systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

- Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage.

Execution and Delivery Excellence :

- Oversee end-to-end product delivery, ensuring high-quality releases within defined timelines.

- Establish and optimise engineering processes, development standards, and best practices to improve productivity and predictability.

- Drive data-informed decision-making using engineering metrics (velocity, quality, reliability, cost).

Leadership and Talent Development :

- Build, lead, and scale high-performing engineering teams, including Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders.

- Identify skill gaps and implement structured learning, upskilling, and leadership development programs.

- Mentor Engineering Managers and senior engineers to enhance technical depth and leadership capability.

Cross-functional Collaboration :

- Partner with Product, QA, UX, Operations, and Business stakeholders to ensure effective planning, staffing, and execution of initiatives.

- Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders.

- Align engineering priorities with business outcomes, customer needs, and operational goals.

Requirements :

- Strong expertise in designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems.

- Deep experience with Java ecosystem (e. g., Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA) and modern backend development practices.

- Solid understanding of data architectures, including relational databases and NoSQL/document stores.

- Proven ability in object-oriented design, system design, and architectural patterns.

- Good understanding of web and mobile technology stacks.

- Strong grasp of non-functional requirements and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated testing frameworks.

- Hands-on familiarity with agile methodologies and modern software development practices.

- Experience managing and operating large-scale production systems.

- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant portion in leadership roles managing teams and large-scale systems.

- Proven track record of delivering complex software products from inception to launch and scaling them in production.

- Experience leading multiple teams or large engineering groups in a fast-paced environment.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.