Director - Compliance Technology India
On-sitePune, Maharashtra, India
Job Summary
Develop and implement technology strategies for Compliance Technology platforms, overseeing design, delivery, and operation of applications across surveillance, governance, risk, and control domains. Lead engineering excellence by embedding DevSecOps, CI/CD, and automated testing while accelerating AI and advanced analytics adoption to improve signal quality and reduce false positives. Manage the India capability centre, driving product-centric operating models, vendor relationships, and workforce strategy aligned with data, cloud, and AI requirements. Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders on regulatory transformation, balancing innovation with auditability and operational resilience in a highly regulated financial services environment.
Required Qualifications
- Essential senior leadership capabilities
- Senior leadership experience setting technology strategy
- Leading large-scale transformation
- Influencing senior stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes
- Ability to lead modern engineering organisations
- Establishing resilient, secure and observable platforms
- Using contemporary delivery practices
- Experience shaping data, AI and product-led platform strategies
- Improving operational performance, risk management and value delivery
- Ability to balance innovation with regulatory expectations
- Meeting cyber requirements
- Ensuring auditability
- Ensuring operational resilience
- Proven ability to lead diverse teams through change
- Building high-performing cultures
- Communicating with impact across all levels
- Highly developed presentation skills
- Highly developed facilitation skills
- Highly developed written communication skills
- Degree-level education in science, technology or a related discipline
- Or equivalent senior leadership experience
- Strong understanding of modern engineering practices
- DevSecOps
- SRE
- Automated testing
- Secure-by-design delivery
- Platform observability
- Experience applying data, automation and AI-enabled capabilities
- Improving delivery, operational efficiency and control outcomes
- Experience leading and executing complex technology transformational programs
- Leading data/cloud modernization programs
- Ability to operate effectively in a highly regulated environment
- Strong control discipline
- Resilience discipline
- Stakeholder management discipline
- Knowledge and understanding of financial services industry
- Compliance
- Regulatory
- Legal operations
- Knowledge of Financial Instruments
- FO /Risk / Compliance processes
- Reg & Control framework
- Ability to evidence the following
Desired Qualifications
- Financial services experience
- Particularly in compliance
- Regulatory
- Legal
- Markets
- Investment Banking environments
- Experience designing or delivering surveillance platforms
- Experience designing or delivering control room platforms
- Experience designing or delivering electronic communications platforms
- Experience designing or delivering anti-financial crime platforms
- Other compliance technology platforms
- Experience engaging with regulators
- Internal auditors
- External auditors
- Legal counsel
- Architecture experience across data
- AI
- Cloud
- Compliance platforms
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