Engineering Lead

Job Description

Engineering Lead

Business Unit Engineering / Technology – Centre of Excellence India

Job Family Management

Job Role Engineering / Delivery

Reports To Head of Delivery / Global Engineering Leadership

Team Size To be built initial charter covers setup and scaling of the India engineering

team

Scope Country (India)

Status Draft for internal review

1. Job Mission

Set up build and lead the engineering function for India combining hands-on technical leadership with end-to-

end team management. The Engineering Lead is accountable for standing up the India engineering team hiring

structure and ways of working and for the technical consistency quality and delivery of the solutions the team

builds in support of global technical requirements.

2. Purpose of the Job

Establish and scale the engineering team in India including team structure hiring plan and onboarding.

Define and implement engineering delivery processes quality standards and governance for the India team.

Provide technical leadership across development teams ensuring architectural consistency and adoption of best

practices.

Own delivery execution: planning resource allocation budget adherence and SLA/deadline compliance for India-based

engineering work.

Build trusted working relationships with global Architecture Product and Delivery stakeholders.

Develop technical and managerial capability within the team through coaching mentoring and structured knowledge

transfer.

Contribute to engineering strategy technology roadmap platform modernization initiatives and continuous

improvement programs aligned with global objectives.

Act as the primary engineering representative for India influencing decisions and collaborating with senior global

stakeholders across Product Architecture Delivery Operations and Business functions.

Ensure compliance with organizational risk security audit and regulatory requirements. Proactively identify assess and

mitigate delivery and operational risks.

Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural patterns sponsor proof-of-concepts and drive innovation initiatives

that improve scalability resilience and engineering efficiency.

3. Key Responsibilities

Team Setup & Capability Building

Define the India engineering team structure and role profiles in line with global technical requirements.

Drive hiring interviewing and onboarding of engineers; build a scalable internal capability pipeline.

Establish onboarding training and career development pathways for team members.

Identify and develop future technical leads as the team scales.

Technical & Cross-Team Leadership

Provide technical leadership across development teams working closely with global Architecture on key decisions.

Define promote and ensure adoption of technical standards best practices and engineering guidelines.

Supervise and validate implementation choices to ensure alignment with target architecture.

Take end-to-end ownership of critical components from design through production deployment and operations.

Delivery Management & Governance

Adapt and implement delivery strategy processes and governance for the India engineering function.

Establish and manage the delivery budget; ensure compliance with budgets deadlines and SLAs.

Plan allocate resources and track execution across projects and support work.

Define KPIs and monitor individual and team performance.

Report on delivery status risks and capability metrics to global leadership.

Quality Security & Robustness

Ensure development complies with software quality and security requirements.

Oversee and validate code reviews and pull requests.

Promote a strong automated testing culture (unit integration regression) integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

Participate in software security audits and define remediation actions.

Coaching & Knowledge Sharing

Mentor engineers across the team; support technical growth and career development.

Prepare and lead workshops training sessions and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Drive knowledge transfer and adoption of best practices across the team and with global counterparts.

Stakeholder & Client Support

Support pre-sales and technical assessment phases where India-based expertise is relevant.

Provide technical guidance to Product Payment Services and Sales teams on request.

Organize and participate in steering/governance forums with global stakeholders as needed.

4. Cross-Functional Requirements

Strong awareness of application security topics (authentication authorization encryption secrets management).

Solid understanding of distributed systems and data consistency challenges.

Ability to design and oversee solutions capable of handling high volumes and high availability.

Strong technical leadership and mentoring mindset comfortable operating across multiple teams.

Rigorous quality- and performance-focused approach to engineering delivery.

5. Required Competencies

Technical Skills

Skill Target Level (1-4)

Interne / Internal

Experience in Cards & Payments ISO 8583 Issuing/Acquiring/Switch 3

Java Spring Boot Microservices architectures 4

Oracle & PL/SQL PostgreSQL 3

AWS Kafka Docker Kubernetes 4

DevOps & CI/CD (Jenkins Maven NPM Docker) 4

UNIX environments 3

Testing methodologies and automation 3

Angular HTML TypeScript 2

Managerial & Business Skills

Team Management & Strategy/Leadership

Program / multi-project management and Budget Management

Performance Management and KPI definition

Client Focus and Compliance Management

Delivery process design and continuous improvement

Behavioral Skills

Communication Negotiation & Influence

Presentation skills

Conflict Management

Initiative and anticipation of problems

English fluency

6. Profile

At least 10-15 years of experience in software development/engineering including proven experience in a Tech Lead

Engineering Manager or equivalent leadership role.

Track record of building or scaling an engineering team ideally within a GCC shared-services or similar setup.

Strong expertise in Java / Spring / Spring Boot and microservices architectures.

Experience with PostgreSQL/Oracle; exposure to Kafka Kubernetes AWS and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch/Redis

strongly appreciated.

Comfortable working in complex mission-critical environments (banking payments finance).

Knowledge of banking or payment systems is a plus but not mandatory domain onboarding and training will be

provided.

7. KPIs

Team build-out: hiring plan achievement and time-to-fill for open engineering roles.

Delivery schedule adherence and quality of deliverables.

Budget adherence.

Engineering quality metrics (defect rates code review coverage test automation coverage).

Team retention and capability growth.

8. Job Dimension

Interne / Internal

Team Size: To be built out (initial charter targets a multi-engineer team scaling over time).

Portfolio: All relevant business units/product pods supported by India engineering.

Scope: Country (India).

9. Relational Sphere

Internal

Global Architecture team

Product teams

Payment Services

Global Delivery leadership

Recruitment/HR for hiring and capability building