Head of Engineering & Platforms

Responsibilities:

• Build a high-performing software engineering organization with end-to-end accountability for design, build, quality, release, and production operability across digital, core-adjacent, and enterprise technology.
• Own full-stack engineering: frontend, backend, mobile/web, microservices, and core/enterprise engineering.
• Own API, services, integration, and event platform engineering as reusable enterprise capabilities.
• Own quality engineering, automated testing, performance/resilience testing, and engineering quality standards.
• Own developer platform, CI/CD, and DevSecOps engineering in partnership with security and infrastructure.
• Own Release and Engineering Operations, progressively moving from central release coordination toward continuous/progressive delivery.
• Own Technology Service and Application Support: L2 application support, major incident/problem management, and engineering service experience; L3 stays with owning PODs.
• Build captive engineering depth while using partners selectively; establish engineering career paths, communities of practice, and productivity tooling, including AI-assisted engineering.
• Own technical delivery commitments within product PODs and production health of engineered products.

Key interfaces/boundaries:

• Business Technology/Product decides WHAT/WHY and owns business prioritization; Engineering owns HOW and engineering quality.
• Infrastructure owns foundational cloud/network/workplace/SRE platforms; engineering owns application operability and code-level production issues.
• Architecture sets enterprise guardrails; engineering selects implementation patterns within those guardrails.
• Strategic Missions borrow engineering capacity through agreed prioritization; they do not create a parallel engineering team.

Requirements:

• Experience: Typically 20+ years in software/product engineering with significant scale leadership; modern cloud-native, API/microservices, DevSecOps, and platform engineering depth; preferably insurance/BFSI experience and demonstrated build+run ownership.
• Leadership attributes: Builder mindset, technically credible, high standards without bureaucracy, strong talent magnet, data-driven engineering leader, calm under production pressure.