Vice President/Director - Platform Engineering

You will be joining FundsIndia, one of India's largest wealth advisory and financial-product distribution platforms, as the leader of Platform Engineering. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing Data, DevOps/Infrastructure, Security, and Quality Engineering. Your primary focus will be on setting the technical vision and roadmap for the platform, translating it into achievable plans, and ensuring the platform enables velocity rather than becoming a bottleneck for the engineering organization. Key Responsibilities: - Set the technical vision and 12 to 18 month roadmap for the platform, and translate it into a credible quarter-by-quarter plan. - Treat platform as a product: define how stream teams consume your services, and build for their leverage rather than your ticket queue. - Establish how platform demand from three business verticals is intaked, prioritized, and arbitrated so the platform enables velocity rather than becoming a bottleneck. - Raise the reliability, security, and quality bar across the engineering org through standards, paved paths, and automation not gatekeeping. - Own the engineering side of regulatory cyber compliance (SEBI CSCRF): security controls, VAPT/audit readiness, incident response, and the working relationship with the external empanelled auditor. - Hire, grow, and retain strong team leads and engineers; build a bench so the function does not depend on any single person, including you. - Be hands-on where it matters: design reviews, architecture decisions, incident response, and the occasional prototype. - Partner with product, the business-vertical engineering leads, compliance/risk, and executive leadership. Qualifications Required: - Technical credibility (non-negotiable). - Demonstrable hands-on depth in at least one or two of these domains most likely infrastructure/platform/DevOps earned as a Staff/Principal engineer, architect, or a leader who stayed technical. - Strong systems and architecture judgment at scale: reliability, deployment safety, data architecture, and security-by-design. - Leadership: Experience managing managers/leads and a team in the 15+ range, with a track record of hiring well and growing people. - 12+ years in engineering with several in leadership; experience in a regulated environment (fintech/financial services/wealth/payments) is a strong plus. - Working familiarity with regulatory cyber obligations (SEBI CSCRF or equivalent such as RBI/IRDAI frameworks, ISO 27001, SOC 2) and comfort owning or sponsoring the CISO function. This role requires a strategic thinker who can drive prioritization and alignment across competing business demands while ensuring a strong technical foundation for the organization's growth and compliance requirements. You will be joining FundsIndia, one of India's largest wealth advisory and financial-product distribution platforms, as the leader of Platform Engineering. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing Data, DevOps/Infrastructure, Security, and Quality Engineering. Your primary focus will be on setting the technical vision and roadmap for the platform, translating it into achievable plans, and ensuring the platform enables velocity rather than becoming a bottleneck for the engineering organization. Key Responsibilities: - Set the technical vision and 12 to 18 month roadmap for the platform, and translate it into a credible quarter-by-quarter plan. - Treat platform as a product: define how stream teams consume your services, and build for their leverage rather than your ticket queue. - Establish how platform demand from three business verticals is intaked, prioritized, and arbitrated so the platform enables velocity rather than becoming a bottleneck. - Raise the reliability, security, and quality bar across the engineering org through standards, paved paths, and automation not gatekeeping. - Own the engineering side of regulatory cyber compliance (SEBI CSCRF): security controls, VAPT/audit readiness, incident response, and the working relationship with the external empanelled auditor. - Hire, grow, and retain strong team leads and engineers; build a bench so the function does not depend on any single person, including you. - Be hands-on where it matters: design reviews, architecture decisions, incident response, and the occasional prototype. - Partner with product, the business-vertical engineering leads, compliance/risk, and executive leadership. Qualifications Required: - Technical credibility (non-negotiable). - Demonstrable hands-on depth in at least one or two of these domains most likely infrastructure/platform/DevOps earned as a Staff/Principal engineer, architect, or a leader who stayed technical. - Strong systems and architecture judgment at scale: reliability, deployment safety, data architecture, and security-by-design. - Leadership: Experience managing managers/leads and a team in the 15+ range, with a track record of hiring well and growing people. - 12+