Vice President Software Engineering

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 5000000 - Rs 10000000 (ie INR 50-100 LPA)

Experience: 18+ yrs

Location: Bengaluru

Job Type: Full-Time

We are seeking an experienced Vice President – Engineering & Delivery to lead enterprise-scale product engineering and technology delivery for mission-critical financial platforms. This strategic leadership role is responsible for driving end-to-end execution across product development, customer implementations, and engineering operations while ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality technology solutions.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of engineering expertise, delivery leadership, and stakeholder management, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence technical strategy, and foster a high-performance engineering culture. Experience in Treasury, Banking, Financial Markets, Payments, or enterprise financial systems will be highly advantageous.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of product development, enhancements, maintenance, and enterprise implementation programs.
• Establish strong project governance, delivery frameworks, milestone tracking, risk management, and stakeholder communication processes.
• Drive predictable, high-quality, and timely software delivery while ensuring accountability across engineering teams.
• Provide technical leadership by reviewing architecture, application design, APIs, database models, and integration strategies.
• Promote modern engineering practices including microservices, cloud architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, and scalable software design.
• Mentor engineering managers, architects, and technical leaders while building a collaborative, high-performance engineering organization.
• Partner with Product, Business, Client Services, and executive leadership to align engineering priorities with business objectives.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers during implementations, escalations, and strategic technology initiatives.
• Strengthen Agile delivery processes through effective sprint planning, capacity management, estimation, quality assurance, and release management.
• Monitor and improve engineering KPIs such as delivery velocity, deployment reliability, release cadence, software quality, and defect management.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on engineering excellence, operational efficiency, and technology innovation.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 15–20 years of experience leading enterprise software engineering, product development, or large-scale technology delivery programs.
• Proven success in leadership roles such as Director, AVP, VP, or equivalent, managing multiple engineering and delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture, full-stack engineering, APIs, databases, integrations, and cloud technologies.
• Hands-on exposure to enterprise technology stacks such as Java, .NET, Python, or similar platforms.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases, PL/SQL, application performance optimization, and scalable system design.
• Experience delivering complex enterprise solutions within Treasury, Banking, Financial Markets, Payments, ERP, or related domains is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of software delivery methodologies, Agile practices, DevOps, and modern engineering frameworks.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to build high-performing engineering teams, mentor technical leaders, and drive organizational growth.
• Experience with Asset & Liability Management (ALM), Liquidity Management, Cash Management, or Treasury platforms will be an added advantage.