Digital Engineering Lead

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We are looking for a Digital Engineering Lead to join our growing team in United States!

Role Overview:
The Digital Engineering Lead - North America will drive technology strategy, solution design, and innovation across digital transformation engagements. This leader will combine deep technical expertise with hands-on experience to architect, propose, and deliver modern digital solutions leveraging cloud-native, AI-infused, and engineering-first approaches. The role requires strong customer engagement skills - translating complex technical concepts into clear business value for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership:

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture and design for complex digital transformation programs across multiple industries.
• Guide teams in building modern, scalable, and resilient applications using microservices, APIs, cloud-native, and event-driven architectures.
• Stay hands-on where needed - driving PoCs, design reviews, and solution validations.

Innovation and Gen AI Adoption:

• Champion AI and Gen AI driven engineering practices, embedding intelligent automation, code acceleration, and AI-based quality improvement across SDLC.
• Foster innovation by incubating new solution accelerators and reusable assets leveraging AI, ML, and automation.

Customer Engagement & Solutioning:

• Lead technical solution design, estimation, and proposal preparation for RFPs, proactive pitches, and client pursuits.
• Present solutions confidently to customer architects, CIOs, and business leaders, demonstrating both technical excellence and business relevance.
• Partner with account and delivery teams to shape digital roadmaps and identify growth opportunities.

Delivery Oversight:

• Oversee architecture governance and ensure technology choices align with customer strategy and enterprise standards.
• Provide thought leadership and mentor delivery teams in applying modern engineering practices (DevSecOps, CI/CD, Cloud-native, API-first, etc.).

Practice & Capability Building:

• Build and scale digital engineering competency across North America - covering full-stack development, cloud modernization, and intelligent automation.
• Collaborate with global innovation and CoE teams to drive reusable frameworks, accelerators, and Gen AI enablers.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 20+ years in software engineering, digital solutioning, and technology leadership roles.
• Proven track record in solution architecture, proposal response, and customer presentations for large digital transformation programs.
• Deep understanding of modern architecture paradigms - microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud-native (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform), containers, and serverless.
• Strong exposure to application modernization, full-stack development, and DevSecOps.
• Experience in Gen AI and AI-assisted engineering - e.g., integrating LLMs, intelligent automation, or AI-based developer productivity tools.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills - able to bridge between business goals and technical implementation.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on, problem-solving approach and the ability to operate in complex, fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in pre-sales or solutioning leadership for digital or application engineering portfolios.
• Exposure to industry-specific digital transformation initiatives (e.g., healthcare, manufacturing, BFSI, or retail).
• Certifications in cloud (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform) and architecture (TOGAF, SAFe, etc.).
• Track record of publishing thought leadership, innovation frameworks, or Gen AI driven solutions.