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Associate Director - Engineering
full-time•Pune
About this role
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Additional Information
We are seeking a dynamic Senior Technology leader to lead and drive technology excellence within our organization. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and deliver high-impact technology solutions dealing with Infrastructure and Platform domains. As a strategic technology leader, you will oversee the Foundational Infrastructure and IT Capacity Planning, capability strategy, and value-driven execution, ensuring seamless collaboration across US and India teams. With a strong focus on people leadership, you will nurture talent, foster innovation, and optimize resource allocation to drive operational efficiency and business outcomes. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to create measurable impact, this is the opportunity for you!
Functional
- Engaging in strategic meetings and interactions, influencing enterprise office leadership and stakeholders for developing key roles and transitioning workload impacting enterprise and maturing capabilities in PGS
- Develop and manage departmental budget, objectives, policies, and procedures
- Model a growth mindset and mentor and coach others
- Skilled at driving end-to-end delivery – from strategy and roadmap development to execution and adoption - ensuring scalability, performance, and business alignment.
- Experienced in managing cross-functional teams, navigating complex stakeholder landscapes, and delivering high-impact outcomes within budget and timelines.
- Build strong relationships with US counterparts to enable seamless collaboration and strategic alignment.
- Gain deep insights into Technology strategy, ensure proactive engagement and delivery excellence.
- Stay updated on industry trends, regulations, and plan sponsor/participant expectations to inform strategic decisions and innovation opportunities.
- Drive human capital planning by forecasting talent needs, shaping workforce strategy, and aligning skills with future business and technology demands.
- Implement structured career development plans, succession pipelines, and leadership grooming programs to retain and grow top talent.
- Foster a high-performance culture that promotes accountability, continuous learning, and employee engagement.
- Evaluate and optimize technology investments to maximize business value. Drive cost efficiency and operational excellence through effective resource utilization, automation, and streamlined delivery models.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by enhancing processes, increasing agility, and enabling higher productivity across teams.
Technical
Must Have
- Broad & deep understanding of Datacentre (on-prem & Cloud) landscape
- Experience around Infrastructure and Network/Server/Storage technologies
- Cloud Infra management (preferably AWS) & hybrid networking
- Good knowledge on desired network security posture. Any exposure to Zero-trust framework (e.g. Zscaler) will be preferable.
- Good knowledge on VMware Hypervisor, SAN & NAS storage technologies.
- Proven experience towards adaptation of Orchestration framework for Microsoft/ Linux environments.
Good to Have
Capacity and Usage Tracking, forecast future financials, Projecting
- Software license consumption past, current and projection for growth
- Lifecycle Planning - Submitting GEP (or equivalent)
- Execute New purchase and/or Lifecycle of storage: Bidding, Buying, Approvals, Transition to Service
- Storage Cost analysis - Total Cost, unit cost by type, country, Trends As percentage of service and TCO
Qualifications
Required Years of Experience : 20+ years of work experience in IT. Out of which at least 10 yrs. in senior leadership level.
Educational qualification : Bachelor or Master of Engineering
Additional Information
Required behavioural competencies :
- Align to our shared vision
- Drive results
- Act Strategically
- Make sound business decisions
- Cultivate Talent & build strong teams
- Demonstrate agility
- Lead through change
- Build collaborative relationships
What you'll do
- The Associate Director - Engineering will lead technology excellence in Infrastructure and Platform domains, overseeing IT capacity planning and fostering collaboration between teams in the US and India. This role involves nurturing talent, optimizing resources, and driving operational efficiency to achieve business outcomes.
About Principal Global Services
Principal Global Services is a Global In-house Center, dedicated to supporting Principal Financial Group achieve our common purpose of empowering and enabling our customers across the globe by protecting and advancing their financial well-being through retirement, insurance and asset management solutions. Since our inception in 2006, our continued focus has been to take our services to the next level of providing solutions, which has been further reinforced with stimulating results and a clear strategic direction.
Over the last decade, we have assimilated the right mix of talent and competencies to build a center of excellence that delivers quality, innovation and strategic value. We offer right over best opportunities for a holistic growth, because we believe that engagement is directly proportional to the right opportunities, fostered by cultural pillars of empowerment and enablement. Principal Global Services has offices in Hyderabad (India), Manila (Philippines) and Pune (India). To find out more, visit us at www.principal.com
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