Vice President Engineering

Vice President Engineering

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B.Tech./B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline (Must have)2. M.Tech./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred3. Certifications (Desirable): Cloud/architecture professional (AWS/Azure/GCP), TOGAF, or programme-management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe)Experience1. 15+ years of experience in software engineering, platform, or product engineering, with a substantial record of senior technical and organisational leadership2. Proven experience leading the design, delivery, and operation of large-scale, high-availability software platforms in production3. Extensive people-leadership experience, having led multi-disciplinary engineering organisations, including engineering managers and technical leads4. Track record of delivering large, multi-workstream technology programmes to schedule and budget, with accountability for outcomes, quality, reliability, and cost5. Demonstrated experience owning technology strategy and architecture for an enterprise or platform operating at scale6. Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, including talent acquisition, capability development, and the management of delivery partners and vendors7. Strong, current technical grounding in modern software architecture and engineering practice, with the standing to set technical direction and make architecture decisions8. Prior Government/PSU experience is not essential; the ability to operate within public-sector requirements for data protection, sovereign infrastructure, procurement, and audit is expectedKey ResponsibilitiesProgramme Leadership & Strategy1. Set the vision, strategy, and delivery roadmap for engineering services across Digital India platforms and cross-ministerial systems2. Lead the end-to-end delivery of the programmes portfolio of engineering initiatives across the capability teams, ensuring timely, high-quality, and measurable outcomes3. Establish and run programme governance planning, prioritisation, risk management, and delivery reporting and present progress and outcomes to NeGD leadership4. Own the programme budget and cost governance, ensuring efficient use of infrastructure, tooling, and manpower against the approved envelopeTechnical & Architectural Direction1. Own the engineering technical strategy and target-state architecture across capability teams — Platform Engineering; Application Development; API & Integration Services; Data & Analytics Engineering; DevOps & Site Reliability; and Quality Engineering2. Set standards for technology selection and build-versus-buy decisions, including the use of open-source components, cloud-native services, and sovereign infrastructure3. Act as the design authority for the programme, approving reference architectures, integration standards, engineering frameworks, and deployment patterns4. Ensure reusable engineering components — APIs, SDKs, shared libraries, and templates — are produced to a common standard and published for cross-ministry reuseOrganisation & Delivery1. Mentor the engineering teams and the capability-pod leadership, scaling the organisation in line with validated demand2. Direct and coordinate the programme’s functional and technical resources as a single, integrated delivery organisation3. Establish the operating model, engineering standards, and delivery culture for a fast-growing national engineering capability4. Establish DevOps/SRE practices — CI/CD, release management, monitoring for reliability and performance, and cost-effective operations at production scaleEmpanelment, Procurement & Partnerships1. Govern the engagement of empanelled agencies at the discovered L1 rate card across resource, project, and turnkey modes — including agency selection, performance management, acceptance, and service levels2. Manage relationships with technology, cloud, and infrastructure providers, including commercial terms, performance, and riskGovernance, Security & Compliance1. Ensure all engineering systems are delivered in line with applicable governance frameworks — risk assessment, change management, quality assurance, and audit2. Ensure security and data protection by design across the programme, in line with MeitY security standards, CERT-In directions, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 20233. Ensure the appropriate use of sovereign infrastructure and coordinate with other MeitY agencies where relevantTechnical Competencies1. Software Engineering & Architecture: Strong command of modern software engineering — distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, and full-stack application development2. DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, release management, monitoring, and reliable production operations at scale3. Solution & Platform Architecture: Microservices, event-driven and API-based design, service gateways, and multi-cloud, on-premise, and sovereign deployment patterns4. Quality Engineering & Testing: Automated testing frameworks, performance testing, and quality assurance practices across the software development lifecycle5. Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud architecture, identity and access management, scalability and reliability, and observability6. Cost Governance: Unit economics and cost management for compute, storage, and infrastructure, and forecasting against a programme budget7. Programme & Delivery Management: Programme governance, portfolio prioritisation, budgeting, risk management, and multi-workstream delivery8. Security, Data Protection & Compliance: Access control, encryption, audit, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, CERT-In directions, and MeitY security standards9. Organisational Leadership: Organisation design, hiring and capability development, performance management, and the management of delivery partners and vendors10. Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Executive communication of strategy, progress, and risk; leading technical reviews; and building alignment across technical and functional teamsRole: Head - Engineering,Industry Type: Government / Public Administration,Department: Engineering - Software & QA,Employment Type: Full Time, Temporary/ContractualRole Category: Software DevelopmentEducationUG: B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Information TechnologyPG: M.Tech in ComputersKey SkillsSkills highlighted with ‘‘ are preferred keyskillsPlatform ArchitectureProduct EngineeringSoftware EngineeringEngineering ManagementInfrastructure DesignAbout companyThe National e-Governance Division has been set up by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology as an Independent Business Division under the Digital India Corporation {erstwhile Media Lab Asia}. Since 2009, NeGD has been playing a pivotal role in supporting MeitY in Programme Management and implementation of the e-Governance Projects; providing technical and advisory support to Ministries/ Departments, both at Central and State levels along with other Government organizations. NeGDs major operational areas include programme management, project development, technology management, capacity building, awareness and communications-related activities under the flagship Digital India Programme. NeGD has developed and is managing several National Public Digital Platforms such as DigiLocker, UMANG, Rapid Assessment System, OpenForge, API Setu, Poshan Tracker, Academic Bank of Credits, National Academic Depositories, National AI Portal, MyScheme, India Stack Global, Meri Pehchaan, etc.More details can be seen at InfoAddress:4TH FLOOR, 6 CGO COMPLEX, ELECTRONIC NIKETAN, LODI ROAD, LODI ROAD, New Delhi, Delhi, 110003, NEW DELHI, Delhi, IndiaBeware of imposters! 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