The Role
Leads and scales the engineering organization for a US B2B EdTech business. Responsibilities include defining the AI roadmap, governing an AI Center of Excellence, overseeing architecture and scalable distributed systems, managing agile engineering teams, ensuring quality and timely delivery, establishing engineering best practices and metrics, partnering with product, sales, and customers, and mentoring engineering leaders and staff.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Associate Director Engineering
No. of Openings: 01
Total Experience: 15+ Years
Relevant Experience: 15+ Years
Qualification: B.E/B. Tech
Job Location: Pune/Hybrid
Reporting To: Executive Vice President
Department : Engineering
Role: Associate Director - Engineering
We are seeking a seasoned Associate Director of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering department as we grow our US B2B EdTech Business. This role is responsible for technology execution, people leadership, and engineering excellence while partnering closely with Product, Business, and Customer Success teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.
You will play a critical role in shaping our technical roadmap, building high-performing teams, and ensuring our products meet the expectations of enterprise customers in the US market.
Key Responsibilities
· Provide strategic and technical leadership across engineering, AI, and product initiatives.
· Define and execute the AI roadmap, including architecture, platforms, and enterprise AI adoption.
· Establish, scale, and govern the AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), driving best practices, innovation, and reuse.
· Build and lead multiple agile/scrum teams of top-notch engineers to own, drive & deliver critical parts of our products.
· Work closely with Presales/Sales/Solution Architects/Customers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
· Ensure timely delivery of projects with high quality.
· Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
· Oversee architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
· Architecting and engineering solutions which can meet the requirement of unknown customer buying off the shelf products
· Engage with delivery management /product management teams to drive the functionality, usability, and other non-functional requirements
· Ensure on time launches by managing design, development, and integration efforts according to a standard or customized project plan
· Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement.
· Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long-term vision.
· Be responsible for mentoring and developing front line managers and engineers.
Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
Must Have skills
· 14+ years of work experience in software development and 5+ years as a leadership role.
· Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies. Preferably from EdTech Background
· Experience in building and running distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale.
· Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
· Experience working on solutions/proposals and estimation
· Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
· Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.
· Strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.
· Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
· Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience. Engaging and influencing peers and executives.
· A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.
· Being a strong leader, team player, mentor, and people manager.
Our Offerings for Employee Benefits
· Health Insurance for Employee+ Spouse+ Two Children +Parents
· GPA – For Employee
· Hybrid working
· Compliance – PF and Gratuity
About Academian
Academian is a carve out of an existing IT services company – Intraedge Inc.
Website: www.academian.com
We are a service, products and learning development company in the education domain with a current headcount of 500+ team members. We are targeting a headcount of 1000 in the next 3 years as we are working on a pipeline for additional business expanding our footprint across services, products, and learning.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, preferably B.E. or B.Tech.
- 14+ years of software development experience.
- 5+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role.
- Deep understanding of enterprise-grade technologies.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale.
- Deep expertise with highly transactional, large relational, and complex systems.
- Experience developing solutions, proposals, and estimates.
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
- Experience defining and executing software engineering best practices across the full software development lifecycle.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including using data and metrics to guide decisions.
- Strong problem-solving, issue-resolution, multitasking, and deadline-management abilities.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including influencing peers and executives.
- Leadership, teamwork, mentoring, and people-management capabilities.
- EdTech experience preferred.
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The Company
What We Do
Academian is an education-technology services partner and a creative offshoot of Intraedge. It helps K–12, higher-education, workforce-development, publishers, and corporate clients pursue digital transformation through digital engineering, custom software, learning-experience design, content development, publishing, strategic consulting, and staffing. Its mission is to empower learning through technology by building scalable platforms, impactful digital content, and effective, accessible learning experiences for diverse learners worldwide.
