Vice President - Engineering - Financial Services

Position: Vice President - Engineering (Financial Services)

Industry: BFSI / Fintech / Wealth Management

Role Overview

We are seeking a visionary Vice President - Engineering to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade digital platforms and applications for the ecosystem. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, driving innovation across web, mobile, and data platforms.

This role demands hands-on experience in modern application architecture, cloud-native technologies, API integration, and enterprise-scale delivery, with proven success in BFSI, fintech, wealth management, lending, or investment platforms.

Key Responsibilities1. Business & Technology Leadership:

• Partner with business leaders, operations teams, and product stakeholders to define technology roadmaps aligned with strategic goals.

• Drive end-to-end engineering execution - from requirement analysis, architecture design, development, testing, deployment, and production rollout.

• Lead digital transformation initiatives across financial services applications and platforms.

• Ensure technology initiatives align with customer experience, operational efficiency, and compliance objectives.

2. Engineering & Solution Architecture:

• Architect scalable, secure, and high-availability enterprise platforms.

• Lead modernization from monolithic to microservices architectures.

• Drive adoption of cloud-native practices (AWS/GCP), APIs (public/private), automation, and DevOps.

• Implement JWT/OAuth2 authentication and secure coding standards.

• Design and review architecture diagrams for applications, chatbots, and voice AI agents.

• Integrate AI-driven debugging and problem resolution tools for faster delivery.

• Oversee integration with internal systems, third-party financial APIs, and regulatory platforms.

3. Product & Platform Development:

• Lead application development from scratch using React.js, Node.js, and modern frameworks.

• Manage full-stack delivery across iOS, Android, and web platforms.

• Ensure seamless conversion of web apps into mobile-responsive applications.

• Oversee BI/data warehousing pipelines, ensuring robust analytics and reporting capabilities.

• Drive innovation in chatbot and voice AI agent development for internal and external stakeholders.

4. Team Leadership & Delivery Management:

• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams (minimum 10 members) across development, QA, DevOps, and support.