Two Circles is a data-driven sports marketing business. We work with the world’s biggest sports organisations – including the NFL, BCCI, Premier League, Formula 1, Wimbledon and UEFA – and have four times been named Sport Industry Agency of the Year.
As part of our continued growth, we are recruiting an Engineering Director for our rapidly-growing Hyderabad office to lead our engineering capability in India. Reporting into our APAC Managing Director, this is a senior leadership role, responsible for executional excellence in engineering delivery, scaling teams with discipline, and embedding engineering standards. You will play a critical role in operationalising and growing our India engineering capability while collaborating with peers globally to align standards and ways of working across Two Circles. The role is located in Hyderabad and applicants are required to live; or relocate there.
Overview
The Engineering Director, India will lead the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle across the region, ensuring our teams deliver with clarity, quality, and pace. You will be hands-on in engineering management — owning resourcing, delivery frameworks, and SDLC processes. You will be connected to the most strategically important projects the team are delivering from India, ensuring they remain on track and delivered to a high quality promoting excellent collaboration with disciplines in other regions.
This is a highly visible role: you will represent engineering within the India region, partner with Delivery Management, Product Management, Product Design, Solution Architecture, and Technical Operations squads to shape cross-capability ways of working, and contribute to the global approach to ensure our engineering practice is aligned worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
Regional Leadership & Capability Growth
- Lead, mentor and scale the India engineering team, building and retaining a high-performing squad, including recruitment, onboarding and mentoring of new team members. Promoting a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Proactively plan and manage resourcing within India, jointly own cross-regional resourcing strategies with EMEA and ANZ to ensure the right skills and capacity are deployed globally.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders and managers in the region, embedding progression frameworks, career pathways, and structured feedback.
- Play an active role in shaping the wider global engineering capability, ensuring consistency and excellence across all regions, while driving innovation and evolving our delivery model
Delivery & Process Discipline
- Own the engineering SDLC across India projects, implementing consistent delivery processes that drive quality and predictability.
- Oversee QA and release management standards across India builds, while also helping define global standards that ensure scalability and interoperability across regional builds.
- Drive continuous improvement, using feedback and performance insights to evolve ways of working regionally and globally.
- Ownership of delivery, quality, technical, and team health metrics (e.g. throughput, predictability, defects, availability, attrition, engagement)
Cross-Capability & Regional Collaboration
- Maintain a visible and accessible leadership presence, fostering strong relationships and encouraging face to face collaboration that strengthens team connection, trust, and delivery outcomes.[NM1]
- Shape effective cross-squad delivery models within India and co-develop global operating models with EMEA, ANZ and India, ensuring teams work seamlessly across geographies.
- Ensure upward visibility for leadership and downward clarity for teams on priorities, outcomes, and decisions.
- Be the lead point of contact in our Hyderabad Hub, working in partnership with Directors from our Melbourne, London and Vancouver Hubs[AN2] . In this capacity you will also work with our Hyderabad Operations Lead to ensure the Hyderabad team have the right support from enabling capabilities such as HR, Training, Finance etc.
Technical Oversight & Standards
- Provide governance on technical standards and architectural approaches, ensuring the India team are executing brilliantly and in line with the direction of Architects and Tech Leads.
- Champion scalable, reusable approaches to accelerate delivery.
- Champion and play a substantial role in global adoption of AI and modern engineering tools that improve developer experience and productivity.
- Ensure India’s engineering workflows are integrated and optimised, positioning them as a global delivery hub aligned with EMEA and ANZ.
Leadership Presence & Culture[NM3]
- Be a confident, experienced leader who thrives in environments of growth and complexity.
- Influence senior stakeholders internally and externally, representing engineering with credibility.
- Attend client meetings as required, representing our engineering capability in the region and talking to the experience and credibility we have delivering brilliant work globally.
- Shape a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture that balances delivery pace with team wellbeing.
- Operate effectively across multiple time zones and cultural contexts, bringing structure and clarity to complex global challenges[AN4] [MM5] .
- Set and communicate the conditions required for the Engineering discipline to operate successfully within India and across regions.
- Maintain a visible and accessible leadership presence, fostering strong relationships and encouraging face to face collaboration that strengthens team connection, trust, and delivery outcomes.
Requirements
Must-Haves[NM1]
- Proven senior leadership experience in engineering management at scale, including experience of a multi-region operating model.
- Hands-on ownership of SDLC, delivery processes, resourcing, team\talent management.
- Strong Emotional Intelligence, resilience, and the ability to influence senior peers and stakeholders.
- Excellent communication abilities, capable of leading and inspiring teams, and engaging effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in the digital engineering space, developing customer/fan facing solutions at scale.
- Leads by example – visibly demonstrating the high-performance tone, culture and behaviour you expect your team to follow.
Nice-to-Haves
- Technical background in architecture or coding ideally including modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), and an understanding of CMS, Identity Solutions, Video, CRM, and e-commerce strategies.
- Familiarity with sports & entertainment
- Recent experience working in agency or service-based organisations.
- Experience working in both startup-style and enterprise-scale environments.
- Previous experience building or working in Global Capability Centres or India-based global delivery hubs.
- Interest in AI-enabled development practices.
What We’re Looking For
We want a high-energy leader who thrives in a dynamic environment, shapes culture, and brings clarity and structure to fast-growing teams. You should be equally comfortable resolving delivery bottlenecks within India and representing the region in global forums to ensure alignment across Two Circles.
At Two Circles, we recruit for energy, values, and commitment as much as for skills and experience. If you’re excited to shape the future of sports technology and build a best-in-class regional engineering capability with global impact, we’d love to hear from you.
