Head of Engineering

About CTeBSCTeBS (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+ 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 RoleAs 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

• 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