# Senior Director - Engineering

> Weekday AI · Chennai, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-12

**Salary:** INR 15,000,000–20,000,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients**

**Salary range: Rs 15000000 - Rs 20000000 (ie INR 150 - 200 LPA)**

Min Experience: 15+ years

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India  
JobType: full-time

We are seeking an accomplished **Senior Director – Engineering** with **15–27 years of experience** to provide strategic and technical leadership across engineering teams, products, and large-scale technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of building high-performing engineering organizations, delivering complex and scalable platforms, and driving technology strategy aligned with business objectives.

This role requires a senior technology leader who can operate at both strategic and technical levels, mentor engineering leaders, establish strong engineering practices, and champion innovation. Exposure to **Agentic AI** and modern AI-driven engineering approaches will be a strong advantage.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

-   Define and execute the engineering strategy, architecture roadmap, and technology vision in alignment with organizational goals.
-   Lead multiple engineering teams and senior technical leaders, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
-   Oversee the design, development, deployment, and scalability of highly reliable, secure, and high-performance technology platforms.
-   Establish engineering standards, development methodologies, architecture principles, and best practices across teams.
-   Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, Operations, and Business leadership to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
-   Drive modernization initiatives, platform transformation, cloud adoption, automation, and engineering productivity improvements.
-   Build and maintain strong technical leadership pipelines through mentoring, coaching, hiring, and succession planning.
-   Own engineering execution, delivery quality, technical risks, resource planning, and organizational capacity.
-   Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve products, engineering workflows, and operational efficiency.
-   Encourage experimentation and adoption of **Agentic AI**, AI-powered automation, intelligent workflows, and autonomous systems where appropriate.
-   Establish metrics and governance mechanisms to monitor engineering productivity, reliability, quality, delivery, and business impact.
-   Ensure engineering practices meet high standards for security, scalability, performance, compliance, and reliability.

### Required Qualifications

-   **15–27 years of overall experience** in software engineering, technology, or engineering leadership.
-   Significant experience leading large, distributed, or multi-disciplinary engineering organizations.
-   Proven experience managing senior engineering managers, architects, principal engineers, and technical leaders.
-   Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, databases, and modern engineering practices.
-   Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, business-critical technology platforms and products.
-   Strong organizational, stakeholder-management, communication, and strategic planning abilities.
-   Experience driving engineering transformation, process optimization, and technology modernization initiatives.

### Good-to-Have Skills

-   **Agentic AI**
-   Generative AI and LLM-based applications
-   AI agents, autonomous workflows, and multi-agent systems
-   AI-driven developer productivity and automation
-   Cloud-native architecture and AI/ML infrastructure
-   Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise products

### Leadership Attributes

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and strong people leader who can balance long-term technology vision with execution. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing senior stakeholders, making high-impact technical decisions, and building organizations capable of delivering innovative products at scale.

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/3A9A14CBC9/apply)

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