Vice President/Associate Vice President - Engineering - WealthTech

Job location: [{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Any Location","addressCountry":"IN"}}] Work arrangement: Employment type: FULL_TIME Salary: "" Experience requirements: {"monthsOfExperience":120,"educational":{"credentialCategory":"bachelor degree"}} Education requirements: "" About the Opportunity: Our client is a leading WealthTech company transforming the digital investing experience through innovative technology and customer-centric products. As the organization continues its rapid growth, we are looking for an experienced Vice President / Associate Vice President Engineering (Java) to lead engineering teams, drive technical excellence, and build highly scalable platforms powering millions of investment transactions. This is a strategic leadership role for someone passionate about engineering, innovation, and building high-performing technology organizations. Key Responsibilities: Engineering Leadership: - Lead and scale multiple engineering teams across Backend, Platform, and Full Stack development. - Build a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. - Mentor Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Senior Software Engineers while strengthening leadership capability across the organization. Technology & Architecture: - Drive architecture and technical strategy for scalable, secure, and high-performance financial applications. - Lead architectural decisions around Java, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, and Event-Driven Architecture. - Ensure systems are highly available, resilient, and capable of handling high transaction volumes with low latency. Product Delivery: - Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Business teams to deliver customer-centric products. - Drive execution of strategic technology initiatives while maintaining engineering quality, speed, and reliability. - Champion Agile delivery, engineering governance, and continuous improvement. Platform & Engineering Excellence: - Improve platform scalability, observability, reliability, and security. - Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, automation, release management, and engineering productivity. - Establish best practices around code quality, architecture reviews, testing, and secure software development. Stakeholder Management: - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technology strategy with business objectives. - Present engineering roadmaps, delivery updates, technical risks, and platform strategy to executive leadership. What We're Looking For: - 10-15 years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles. - Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Distributed Systems, and REST APIs. - Proven experience leading engineering teams within WealthTech, FinTech, Stock Broking, Capital Markets, Trading Platforms, or Digital Banking. - Strong understanding of scalable system architecture, cloud-native applications, and modern engineering practices. - Experience leading Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and cross-functional engineering teams. - Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with a product-first mindset.