Head of Engineering

Duties and Responsibilities Include but are not limited to: Strategic Leadership: • Develop and execute the engineering and applications strategy aligned with the company's overall goals and objectives. • Provide visionary leadership to the engineering team, inspiring and motivating them to achieve excellence in their work. • Drive innovation and identify opportunities to leverage new technologies and methodologies to enhance product development and delivery. Team Management: • Lead a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning. • Set clear goals and expectations for the team, ensuring alignment with business objectives. • Mentor and develop team members, providing guidance and support in their professional growth. Product Development: • Lead the end-to-end product development process, from concept to launch, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and quality assurance, to define product requirements and ensure seamless integration. • Foster a customer-centric approach, gathering feedback and insights to drive product enhancements and innovation. Technical Excellence: • Drive engineering excellence and best practices across the organization, ensuring efficient and scalable development processes. • Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on the company's products and services. • Implement quality assurance measures and continuous improvement initiatives to maintain high standards of software development. • Manage the infrastructure spend (AWS/Azure/GCP cloud costs), software licensing, and other related engineering costs Stakeholder Management: • Collaborate with senior executives, product managers, and other stakeholders to align engineering initiatives with business objectives. • Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, providing updates on project status, timelines, and risks. • Build and maintain strategic relationships with technology partners and vendors. Architecture, Security &Compliance Technical governance: • Making final high-level architectural decisions, managing technical debt, and ensuring systems are scalable and resilient. • Security posture: Overseeing data privacy, cybersecurity protocols, and vulnerability management. • Compliance standards: Ensuring the engineering department adheres to relevant regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 27001) Metrics & Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): • Delivery metrics: Measuring team velocity and efficiency using relevant frameworks (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR, Change Failure Rate). • System metrics: Holding the team accountable for system uptime, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and incident response. Experience • Total experience: 10–12+ years in software engineering or a related technical field. • Leadership experience: 5+ years of direct people management experience, including managing engineering managers or team leads. Required Skill Sets (Non-Negotiable) • Architectural oversight : Deep understanding of modern, distributed system design, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and microservices architecture. • Agile delivery: Expert knowledge of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks. • Strategic translation: Proven ability to translate high-level business goals into concrete technical roadmaps and execution plans. • People development: Strong track record of mentoring team leads, managing low performance, and building healthy, low-attrition team cultures. • Crisis management : Experience leading incident responses (P1/P0 outages) and conducting blameless post-mortems. • Enterprise integration scale: Architecting and scaling robust platforms that seamlessly integrate with complex enterprise client ecosystems (e.g., healthcare systems, ERPs, IAM/SSO providers). Preferred Skills Set (Nice to Have) • Domain expertise: Deep familiarity with Health Tech, AI/ML verticals. • Compliance champion: Hands-on experience securing technical certifications like SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or GDPR. • High-availability architecture: Expertise in designing scalable, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant SaaS architectures with 99.9%+ uptime. • Enterprise security: Deep understanding of application security practices, data encryption, and secure coding standards (OWASP). • Global management: Experience managing remote, hybrid, or geographically distributed teams across different time zones.