Director-Orange Innov India

Join us at Orange Business!
We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.
Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

 

 

Role purpose

We are seeking an accomplished and visionary technology leader to head large-scale software engineering and business-critical platform operations in a global and multicultural environment. The role will drive strategic transformation, operational excellence, innovation, and delivery governance across mission-critical digital platforms and engineering portfolios. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in engineering leadership, software delivery, platform operations, AI-driven transformation, organizational scaling, and stakeholder management, with the ability to lead high-performing global teams and deliver measurable business outcomes

 

Key accountabilities

Strategic leadership and engineering management

• Lead and scale large engineering organizations managing mission-critical digital platforms, applications, and cloud-based services.
• Drive technology strategy, operational excellence, and engineering transformation aligned with business priorities and customer expectations.
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle, including architecture, development, deployment, operations, and service reliability.
• Collaborate with international stakeholders, innovation teams, and business units to deliver scalable and secure technology solutions.

Expected outcomes

• Technology strategy aligned to business goals.
• End-to-end ownership of software delivery.
• Scalable, secure, and reliable platform operations.
• Effective leadership of global cross-functional teams.

Product development and operations

• Manage technical delivery and operations of high-scale digital platforms serving millions of users, with strong focus on quality, scalability, security, and resilience.
• Drive modernization and optimization across cloud infrastructure, applications, and engineering processes.
• Enable innovation and acceleration of value-added services through emerging technologies and platform engineering practices.
• Ensure strong governance across delivery execution, vendor management, risk mitigation, and operational performance.

Expected outcomes

• High-scale platforms delivered reliably to millions of users.
• Improved scalability, security, and resilience.
• Successful cloud and application modernization initiatives.
• Strong delivery, vendor, and risk governance.

Financial and operational excellence

• Lead FinOps and optimization initiatives to improve operational efficiency and drive cost avoidance and savings.
• Define and monitor KPIs, operational metrics, and service quality indicators to ensure delivery excellence.
• Drive automation initiatives across software delivery, infrastructure operations, and support functions.

Expected outcomes

• Measurable cost savings through FinOps optimization.
• KPI and service quality tracking frameworks established.
• Improved efficiency through automation.
• Better visibility of performance through metrics governance.

Talent development and leadership

• Build, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering and leadership teams.
• Drive workforce planning, capability development, succession planning, and leadership grooming.
• Champion learning and development across technical, functional, and soft skills.
• Foster a high-performance culture through goal setting, feedback, employee engagement, and career development.

Expected outcomes

• Strong engineering and leadership teams built and scaled.
• Workforce planning and succession pipeline strengthened.
• Structured capability-building and learning programs implemented.
• Higher employee engagement and internal career progression.

Essential knowledge and skills

• Technology and engineering leadership.
• Strategic thinking and execution.
• Digital transformation.
• AI / GenAI and automation.
• Cloud and platform operations.
• Agile / DevOps / SRE.
• Vendor and stakeholder management.
• Financial and operational governance.
• Crisis and incident management.
• Talent development and coaching.
• Change management.
• Cross-functional collaboration.

 

 

Education, qualifications, and experience

Education / certifications

• B.E., B.Tech., MCA, M.Sc. (Computer Science), or equivalent.

Experience

• Over 20 years of experience across the IT spectrum, including at least 7 years in a senior role.
• Exposure to IT market trends and evolving technologies.
• Good understanding of software solutions and infrastructure / architecture fundamentals.
• Experience managing large teams and multiple functional domains.

Career opportunity

This is an exceptional opportunity for a technology leader who is passionate about driving large-scale transformation, leading high-impact engineering organizations, and shaping the future of digital platforms and AI-driven innovation. The role offers the chance to work on mission-critical products serving millions of users and collaborate with global stakeholders in a multicultural environment. It also provides a strong platform to build high-performing teams, drive innovation through modern engineering and automation practices, and create measurable business value through operational excellence and transformation initiatives.

 

• Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.
• Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).
• Professional Development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.
• Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.
• Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.
• Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.

Regardless of your age, gender identity, race, ethnic origin, religion/belief, sexual orientation, marital status, neurotype, disability, veteran status or appearance, we encourage diversity within our teams because it is a strength for the collective and a vector of innovation. Orange Group is a disabled-friendly company and equal opportunity employer: don't hesitate to tell us about your specific needs.