Senior Engineering Transformation Leader

Senior Engineering Transformation Leader

Position Details

Location: Bangalore India (Hybrid model-min 3 days a week WFO)
Client: Reputed and Leading Global Alternative Asset Management Firm

This role is aligned to one of Wipros strategic GCC partnerships supporting the technology transformation of a global investment management organization.

About the Role

This is an opportunity to become one of the founding Engineering Transformation Leaders supporting the evolution of a strategic Bangalore GCC a very reputed and leading global alternate asset management firm. The leader will own one or more business technology domains under the Finance & Operations Technology business unit and help establish AI-first engineering end-to-end ownership and engineering excellence. The role combines engineering leadership business partnership people development and organizational transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own engineering strategy delivery and transformation for an assigned business technology domain.
• Drive AI-first engineering practices using modern developer tooling and automation.
• Partner with business product and global technology leadership to increase Bangalore ownership of strategic platforms.
• Build mentor and grow high-performing engineering teams and future engineering leaders.
• Lead capability assessments andworkforce planning.
• Champion engineering excellence architecture governance quality and operational resilience.

Technical & Functional Expertise

• Strong background in AWS/GCP Java Python C# React APIs Microservices SQL Snowflake DynamoDB and cloud-native engineering.
• Good to have Exposure to Anaplan Appian Tableau Coupa Concur
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering (GitHub Copilot Claude Cursor or similar) DevSecOps CI/CD and modern SDLC practices.
• Functional exposure to Finance Treasury Legal Entity Management Procurement to Pay Fund Accounting General Ledger Financial Reporting Regulatory Risk Credit Tax Operations and Business Analysis.

Leadership Expectations

• 15 years of progressive experience in software engineering technology delivery and engineering leadership
• Lead engineering organizations of 30-50 engineers.
• Develop engineering maturity succession plans and leadership capability.
• Influence senior business and technology stakeholders across global locations.
• Create a culture of ownership accountability innovation and continuous learning.

Success Measures

• Business domains transitioned to an ownership-based engineering model.
• Measurable improvement in AI adoption productivity and engineering quality.
• Increased Bangalore ownership of strategic platforms.
• Strong pipeline of future engineering leaders.