Director, Engineering Execution & Quality Enablement Full Time

Grade Level (for internal use):

13

Director, Engineering Execution & Quality Enablement

Experience: 15+ years

Level: Director (L13)

Role Summary

As a Director, Engineering Execution & Quality Enablement, you will lead large‑scale execution focused initiatives that deliver automation, platform reliability, and consistently high customer outcomes across a complex engineering portfolio.

This role is not a traditional Quality Engineering leadership position. Instead, you will act as a hands‑on execution leader who ensures that automation, engineering excellence, and quality outcomes are actually delivered on the ground, not just defined in strategy decks.

You will bring deep experience in getting large automation and engineering initiatives done, working shoulder‑to‑shoulder with teams, removing friction, accelerating delivery, and improving the lived experience of engineers and quality practitioners. Your success will be measured by outcomes: working automation, faster feedback, predictable delivery, improved customer experience, and highly engaged engineering teams.

This role blends execution, people leadership, and pragmatic engineering judgment, with a strong bias toward action, simplification, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Execution‑First Automation & Engineering Outcomes

• Own and drive end‑to‑end execution of automation and quality‑enabling initiatives across multiple teams and platforms.
• Ensure automation efforts move beyond pilots and POCs into scaled, adopted, and value‑producing solutions.
• Work directly with teams to unblock delivery issues, reduce complexity, and accelerate time to value.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to embed quality and automation naturally into day‑to‑day engineering workflows rather than as a separate function.
• Drive practical use of AI‑enabled automation where it clearly improves speed, quality, or cost, with a strong focus on delivery results.

Quality Enablement (Not Policing)

• Shift the organization from quality as a gate to quality as an enabling capability owned by teams.
• Ensure teams have the tools, frameworks, data, and guidance they need to build quality in from the start.
• Champion fast feedback loops, risk‑based testing, and automation that meaningfully improves customer and business outcomes.
• Focus on defect prevention, early detection, and operational resilience, rather than post‑hoc defect reporting.

Engineering & Automation Evolution

• Lead pragmatic evolution of automation and testing approaches across teams with different maturity levels, meeting teams where they are.
• Drive consistent adoption of engineering fundamentals such as:
• Automation‑first thinking
• CI/CD‑integrated validation
• Shift‑left practices
• Testability and observability in system design
• Influence architecture and platform decisions to improve automation feasibility, reliability, and maintainability.
• Balance modern practices with the realities of regulated, market‑critical systems.

Delivery, Accountability & Metrics

• Own delivery outcomes across a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring predictable execution, transparency, and accountability.
• Use data to continuously assess:
• Effectiveness of automation
• Cost of quality
• Delivery throughput and bottlenecks
• Make clear trade‑offs between speed, risk, quality, and compliance in day‑to‑day execution decisions.
• Ensure teams focus on outcomes over activity.

People Leadership & Team Experience

• Lead and develop a large, distributed organization of engineers, automation practitioners, and quality professionals (200+).
• Be a visible, accessible, and trusted leader on the ground, actively engaging with teams.
• Strongly focus on improving the day‑to‑day experience of quality engineers and developers:
• Reducing toil and frustration
• Improving tooling and clarity
• Supporting growth and career progression
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead teams confidently through change, ambiguity, and evolving expectations.

Stakeholder & Partner Leadership

• Act as a trusted execution partner to Product, Engineering, Data, Risk, and Compliance leaders.
• Translate delivery progress, risks, and trade‑offs into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Influence without relying on formal authority, using credibility, data, and delivery results.
• Represent execution and quality outcomes—not just functions—in governance and leadership forums.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in engineering, automation, platform delivery, or quality enablement leadership.
• Proven track record of getting complex automation or engineering transformation initiatives delivered at scale.
• Strong hands‑on background in automation frameworks, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices (not necessarily from a traditional QE career path).
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, diverse teams with a strong execution and people‑first mindset.
• Experience operating in complex, regulated, or high‑risk environments with real delivery accountability.
• Highly pragmatic, data‑driven decision maker with excellent stakeholder and executive communication skills.

Why This Role

• Lead execution at the intersection of Engineering, Automation, Quality, and AI, with a clear mandate to get things done.
• Make a visible, tangible impact on how teams deliver, experience their work, and serve customers.
• Shape a culture where quality is engineered into products, not enforced after the fact.
• Play a critical role in delivering high‑confidence, high‑availability platforms in a data‑intensive, regulated environment.

About S&P Global Ratings

At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People

We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we’re able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world’s leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our Benefits Include

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

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At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Job ID: 328416

Posted On: 2026-05-04

Location: Hyderabad, Telangāna, India