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.

Head of Engineering