VP Of Engineering(B2C/SaaS)

This role is for one of the Weekday's clientsMin Experience: 15 yearsLocation: Bengaluru, KarnatakaJobType: full-timeAs product adoption rapidly scales, we are consolidating three major engineering domains—Front-End Platform, Data Platform, and Core Infrastructure—under a single leader to drive alignment, reliability, and delivery speed. This role will define the platform vision, guide a cross-functional engineering organization, and own the roadmap spanning developer experience, global scalability, and production reliability. A key initiative will include leading the Data Residency program to ensure customer data remains compliant across geopolitical regions.RequirementsIdeal Candidate ProfileTechnical StrategistYou bring deep experience in modern cloud-native engineering and are able to lead architecture discussions across: Cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc. Data Stack: Warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery), orchestration (Airflow, dbt, Dagster) Frontend Platforms: Understanding of frameworks, build tooling, and DX challenges Product-Minded LeaderTreats platform teams as internal product teams, builds roadmaps, prioritizes based on impact, and communicates clearly with technical and business stakeholders.Exceptional CommunicatorCan translate complex technical vision into executive-level alignment and team-level execution.Key Responsibilities Platform Strategy & Roadmap: Build a 12-18 month strategy enabling engineering velocity across micro-frontends, microservices, infra automation, data pipelines, and multi-region deployments. Front-End Platform Leadership: Create standardized frameworks, reusable component libraries, and developer tooling to improve speed and quality of Vue/TypeScript apps. Data Platform & Residency: Implement data governance, lineage, ingestion standards, and multi-region architecture to fulfill EU, US, and APAC residency requirements. Core Infra & Cloud Ownership: Manage Kubernetes clusters, networking, IaC (Terraform), observability, and cloud cost optimization. Developer Experience & Reliability: Advance CI/CD, progressive delivery, chaos engineering, observability, and SRE best practices. Security & Compliance: Partner with Security and Legal on SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and policy-as-code frameworks. Team Leadership: Grow, coach, and scale platform, SRE, and data engineering teams while fostering a high-trust, ownership-led engineering culture. Executive Communication: Convert platform performance metrics (DORA metrics, MTTR, cost, uptime) into insights for Product, Engineering, and Leadership stakeholders. Requirements 15+ years in engineering, with 5+ years leading Platform, SRE, or Cloud teams at scale in a SaaS environment Proven leadership across frontend platforms, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure Expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and distributed systems Hands-on depth in TypeScript/Node, Terraform, Helm, and event-driven architectures Experience deploying multi-region or data-residency architectures in regulated environments Strong people leadership and ability to scale multi-disciplinary engineering teams Experience operating in compliance-oriented ecosystems (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) Bonus Points Experience leading managers (multi-layer org structure) FinOps / cloud cost optimization expertise Familiarity with modern front-end tooling (Vue, Vite, Monorepos)