Practice Lead / Head - Digital Engineering

Job Title : Practice Lead / Head - Digital Engineering

Location : Remote

Duration : / Term : Fulltime

Job Description :

Experience Desired : 13+ Years.

Key required skills

• We are seeking a strategic, client-facing leader to head for our Digital Engineering practice in the US. The ideal candidate will be a compelling technology storyteller and a credible partner to CIOs, CTOs, and Chief Digital Officers, someone who can articulate modernization strategies, own the solution roadmap, and build confidence in our digital engineering capabilities.
• This role blends technical leadership, pre-sales engagement, and practice development. While deep hands-on coding is not expected, the candidate must demonstrate a strong grasp of modern cloud-native engineering principles, understand architectural trade-offs, and confidently lead conversations around application modernization, platform strategy, and transformation at scale.

Key Responsibilities :

Own the growth and positioning of the Digital Engineering practice in the US market, aligning with enterprise digital transformation trends.

Lead CXO-level engagements : shape and present digital modernization roadmaps, cloud migration strategies, and next-gen platform solutions.

Collaborate with client executives to diagnose current-state platforms, define business-aligned technology outcomes, and co-create future-state architectures.

Partner with internal engineering teams to translate client needs into scalable and viable solution architectures, with an emphasis on cloud-native, microservices-based, and event-driven design.

Act as a technical sales leader in RFPs, pursuits, and account expansion efforts ,owning the digital engineering narrative and value proposition.

Support the talent model and capability build-out, ensuring the practice has a modern, scalable bench of architects, engineers, and consultants.

What We're Looking For :

10 15+ years of experience in digital engineering, enterprise architecture, or cloud platform leadership, with significant experience in client-facing roles.

Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture and modernization patterns - including microservices, containerization (Kubernetes / Docker), API-first platforms, event-driven systems, and CI / CD.

Familiarity with Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP and their PaaS offerings, especially as they relate to building resilient, scalable, and distributed applications.

Ability to simplify and communicate complex architecture trade-offs, system design decisions, and modernization priorities to senior client stakeholders.

Proven ability to engage in pre-sales : lead discovery workshops, shape solution proposals, define transformation roadmaps, and influence large deals.

Strong storytelling skills - able to synthesize strategy, architecture, and business impact into a coherent vision.

Previous experience working in or leading digital transformation programs in large enterprises is highly desirable.

Experience across domains such as retail, BFSI, healthcare, or telecom is a plus.

Success in This Role Looks Like :

Winning trust and budget from CIOs and CTOs through credible advisory and solutioning.

Driving repeatable and referenceable wins in digital engineering deals.

Establishing a technically grounded but commercially savvy leadership voice within client accounts and internally across the firm.

Building a scalable and skilled digital engineering team ready to deliver on modernization mandates.

Key Skills :

Digital Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, containerization, Azure