Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering

About CTeBS
CTeBS (Classic Technologies & Business Solutions) is a purpose-built software company for the fashion manufacturing industry, and a subsidiary of Classic Fashion Apparel Industry Ltd. We build the Trendz Biz Suite — a unified enterprise platform covering production planning, ERP, quality management, HR, and data intelligence for fashion manufacturers.

With a 70+ person team in Kochi and live deployments in production, we are now scaling our engineering organisation to match our next phase of growth. This is a pivotal leadership hire.

The Role
As Head of Product Engineering, you will be CTeBS's senior-most engineering leader — building the leadership layer, establishing the culture, and designing the operating model that takes our engineering function from delivery-focused to capability-driven.

You will lead 30+ engineers across three product teams through a layer of Technical Managers, and sit on the CTeBS leadership team reporting directly to the Business Unit Head.

This is not a role for someone looking to grow into engineering leadership. It is for someone who has done it — and wants to do it again with full ownership and executive backing.

What You Will Own
Engineering Organisation & Culture
Lead three product engineering teams through Technical Managers — build their capability as much as the team's
Establish engineering values, norms, and a culture of accountability, ownership, and craft
Design and implement career ladders, performance frameworks, and individual development plans
Drive active, structured hiring — own the talent pipeline from sourcing to onboarding
Strategy & Delivery
Translate product vision and business goals into multi-quarter engineering plans
Move the organisation from reactive firefighting to proactive, planned delivery
Own platform architecture direction in partnership with Solution Architecture
Represent engineering credibly at the leadership table — costs, timelines, tradeoffs
Team Building & Long-Term Thinking
Identify structural risks, capability gaps, and technical debt early — and build plans to address them
Create an environment where strong engineers stay, grow, and do their best work
Balance the urgency of today's delivery with the investment required for tomorrow's scale
What We Are Looking For
Must-Have
14–20 years in software engineering, with 5–8 years in engineering leadership — managing managers, not just engineers
Demonstrated experience leading engineering organisations of 25+ people across multiple teams in a B2B SaaS or enterprise product company
Proven track record of building engineering culture — not just inheriting a healthy team
Active owner of hiring: built pipelines, interviewed at scale, closed strong candidates
Strong communicator — equally credible with engineers and business stakeholders
Strongly Preferred
Exposure to manufacturing, supply chain, ERP, or industrial enterprise software domains
Experience leading an engineering org through a growth or transformation phase
Prior title of Director of Engineering, VP Engineering, or Head of Engineering at a product company
Familiarity with modern engineering practices — CI/CD, platform thinking, developer experience

What Success Looks Like
Deep understanding of team health, delivery state, and key risks across all three teams: First 30 days
Technical Managers identified or in place; clear ownership and accountability structures established: 60 days
Engineering metrics baseline set; active hiring pipeline running; firefighting visibly reduced: 90 days
Career frameworks live; delivery predictability measurably higher; morale and retention improved: 6 months
High-performing, self-directed engineering org; CTeBS scales into new product lines without engineering being the bottleneck: 12 months

Why This Role. Why CTeBS.
Real ownership — your decisions will shape the organisation visibly and lastingly, with full executive backing
Fashion manufacturing is a massive, underserved industry — purpose-built software for this space is rare, and CTeBS is building it
The product is live, customers are real — the next phase is about scale, not survival
Build the engineering leadership layer largely from scratch — a rare, career-defining opportunity
Kochi offers a strong and growing engineering talent pool with quality of life that metros cannot match

Kindly use the below link for applying
https://classic.keka.com/careers/applyjob/76723