Engineering & Delivery Lead - Data Services

About the role

We are seeking a highly accomplished, hands-on SVP – Engineering & Delivery Lead (Data Services) to join our technology leadership team in Pune. In this critical engineering role, you will serve as the Platform Tech Lead and take end-to-end ownership of the technical delivery, architectural alignment , and global engineering execution for our strategic Data Services platforms. This is a senior software engineering leadership and technical delivery role designed for a seasoned software/data engineer with a proven track record of managing engineering teams and technically steering agile workstreams. In this role, you will hold direct line management responsibility for distributed agile engineering pods, providing people leadership, talent development, and technical oversight. You will be responsible for driving the technical execution of key initiatives, including modernizing our core data services, scaling our data lakehouse infrastructure, and engineering critical regulatory-driven technology programs, compliance commitments, and enterprise technology mandates. You will own team capacity planning, hiring, talent development, and performance evaluations. A core expectation of this role is an AI-First Thinking Mindset . You will actively champion and drive the adoption of generative AI tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and other developer productivity assistants)

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American investment bank and financial services corporation

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