Director of Software Engineering
Director of Software Engineering
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Job Description
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The Role
Reporting to the Sr. Director Software Engineering the Director of Software Engineering will lead multiple teams (and managers) building Experians D2C platforms and consumer experiences. You will blend engineering leadership platform strategy excellence with a mobile-first AI-native mindset. You will scale people platforms and processes from Hyderabad while partnering with US stakeholders.
What Youll Do
Leadership & Strategy
- Promote the multi-year engineering strategy OKRs and investment roadmap for a domain within D2C business line in consideration of product outcomes and business growth.
- Lead teams (managers architects engineers) across Hyderabad establishing a practice of excellence accountability and inclusion.
- Manage headcount planning hiring bar vendor strategy and budget; build a engineering leadership bench.
- Bridge the gap in the product and technology efforts between US and India teams within your domain
- Promote platformization and leverageprioritize reusable frameworks automation and internal tooling to accelerate delivery across teams.
- Work with your counterparts in US while driving the OKRs (business and technology).
Architecture & Platform Direction
- Guide end-to-end architecture with emphasis on scalability maintainability and rapid experimentation.
- Champion modern patterns: micro frontends server-driven UI (SDUI) BFF serverless API design and AWS-native systems.
- Shape the platform owned by teams in Hyderabad while promoting the AI-first mindset and latest trends in agentic system design.
Delivery & Operational Excellence
- Establish engineering fundamentals: secure SDLC reliability (SLOs) incident response change management and cost optimization.
- Ensure platforms meet stringent standards for security privacy and compliance; partner with cybersecurity risk and data governance.
- Set bar for code quality architectural reviews design docs and measurable delivery cadences.
- Promote experimentation velocity with safe rollout strategies (feature flags canaries progressive delivery).
- Promote the mindset of using DORA metrics as one of the factors in recognizing trends in development
People Culture & Enablement
- Mentor managers staff/principal engineers and architects; develop clear career paths and succession plans.
- Promote the hybrid and in-person collaboration in our Hyderabad office
- Promote the Product Operating Model experimentation discovery and rapid development
- Promote the Exponential Engineer initiativescale AI-first engineering through reusable agents prompt abstraction and internal enablement platforms.
- Promote adoption of tools like GitHub Copilot Cursor Claude and LLM-integrated workflows; measure impact on lead time and quality.
Collaboration & Influence
- Be a trusted partner to Product Data Design Cybersecurity and SRE to deliver cohesive consumer experiences.
- Coordinate with other D2C engineering leaders to align standards reference architectures and shared services.
- Communicate crisply with executivespresent trade-offs risk and Return on investment; make the data-driven decisions.
Qualifications :
Qualifications
- 15 years in software engineering including 5 years leading managers and multi-team organization
- Build multi-year strategy OKRs budgets and portfolio planning for consumer platforms (mobile & web) with clear delivery outcomes
- Expertise building and scaling engineering teams: hiring bar succession planning performance management and leadership development for managers staff/principal engineers and architects
- Data-driven org leadership using outcome and flow metrics (e.g. availability/latency DORA quality cost/unit economics) to drive continuous improvement
- Hybrid work environment in Hyderabad: Comfortable leading in a hybrid not-remote setup with regular in-office presence; ability to collaborate across US and India time zones
- Platform strategy oversight for microservices micro frontends/BFF serverless and AWSable to review/approve architectures and set reference patterns (not just individual contribution).
Additional Information :
Our uniqueness is that we truly celebrate yours. Experians culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what truly matters; DEI work/life balance development authenticity engagement collaboration wellness reward & recognition volunteering... the list goes on. Experians strong people first approach is award winning; Great Place To Work in 24 countries FORTUNE Best Companies to work and Glassdoor Best Places to Work (globally 4.4 Stars) to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site to understand why.
Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is a critical part of Experians DNA and practices and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work irrespective of their gender ethnicity religion color sexuality physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know at the earliest opportunity.
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Benefits
Experian care for employees work life balance health safety and support of this endeavor we offer best-in-class family well-being benefits enhanced medical benefits and paid time off.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
