Vardhman Jain

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India26 yrs 3 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Scaled engineering teams from 20 to 500+ globally.
  • Led $100M+ digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 clients.
  • Built cloud-native platforms serving 50M+ users with 99.9% uptime.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Gcc Leadership (global Capability Center)Digital TransformationAgile TransformationEngineering Leadership

Other Skills

Portfolio deliveryIndia delivery leadershipGovernance & executionBusiness Unit ManagementP&L ManagementCloud ArchitectureDigital Business TransformationPlatform modernizationProduct EngineeringBudget Management ($M+ projects)AI/ML StrategyTeam ScalingAgile Application DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipIT Enabled Business Transformation

About

I build and scale teams that build platforms - within India based Global Capability Centers and global delivery models across Enterprises. Over 25 years, I've led large-scale digital & delivery transformations and platform modernizations at Adobe, Sapient, and EPAM - scaling engineering teams, launching products used by millions, and turning legacy systems into modern tech stacks. What I've delivered: → Designed and scaled India GCC and delivery operating models → Ownership of cost-to-serve, margin discipline, and execution predictability → Scaled engineering teams from 20 to 500+ across global delivery centers → Led $100M+ digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 clients at Sapient → Led $40M+ portfolio annually for Fortune 500 clients at Adobe → Built cloud-native platforms serving 50M+ users with 99.9% uptime → Mentored 50+ Directors, Architects, and Senior Engineers into leadership roles Technical expertise: Cloud & Platform Architecture | Engineering Operating Models | DevOps & Automation | Pragmatic GenAI Enablement | Enterprise Modernization Domain experience: Retail | Healthcare | MedTech | Finance | Telecom | Media Leadership philosophy: I lead with empathy and outcomes, not outputs. My teams don't just ship code - they solve business problems and grow as leaders. Strengths: Global Capability Center (GCC) Leadership, India delivery leadership, Engineering leadership, Portfolio delivery, Platform modernization, Governance & execution Recently completed a high-growth phase at EPAM where I scaled the Google account team from 300 to 425 engineers in 12 months - 4X faster than the previous 8-year growth rate. As EPAM restructures leadership on this account, I'm exploring Director, Senior Director and VP-level engineering leadership opportunities where I can continue building and scaling high-performing teams. Specialties: → Rapid team scaling with quality (125 hires in 12 months) → Multi-million dollar program delivery → Engineering culture and retention → Cross-functional stakeholder management Available for Q1 2026 transition. Looking to engage with: → CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Delivery / Engineering, GCC Heads, and Product Leaders → Companies scaling engineering teams or undergoing digital transformation → Senior Leaders who are scaling their organizations and need predictable execution, cost discipline, and leadership depth at scale → Executive recruiters for VP/CXO roles in product engineering or digital transformation Let's talk about building teams that scale. 📍 Hyderabad, India | Open to remote leadership roles globally

Experience

Epam systems

Director - India Delivery, GCC & Global Operating Model Leadership

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Senior leader operating across India GCC-style delivery, enterprise platforms, and global services portfolios, with accountability for operating model execution, cost-to-serve, margin performance, and delivery predictability at scale.
  • Lead India-based delivery and GCC-style execution for multi-million-dollar global portfolios, supporting enterprise clients across product, platform, and services-led engagement models.
  • Own operating model execution for a 500+ global organization, balancing scale, utilization, leadership capacity, and execution stability within a distributed delivery setup.
  • Enabled 30%+ business growth by scaling India delivery capabilities and leadership depth across both enterprise platform work and services engagements, without margin erosion.
  • Restructured portfolio governance and delivery model to improve delivery margin by +3% YoY, strengthening predictability across complex, multi-geo operating environments.
  • Applied AI / GenAI and automation pragmatically to improve delivery economics, achieving 10%+ end-to-end productivity gains and materially higher efficiency in selected phases.
  • Acted as senior escalation and execution authority for India delivery, ensuring risk containment, predictable outcomes, and stakeholder confidence across high-value engagements.
  • Partnered with global sales, account, and platform leaders to shape delivery strategy and expansion plans, contributing to 30%+ revenue growth and a broader India delivery footprint.
Portfolio deliveryGCC Leadership (Global Capability Center)India delivery leadershipGovernance & executionBusiness Unit ManagementP&L Management+9

Adobe

Director - JAPAC Delivery & India GCC Leadership

Oct 2022Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Adobe Customer Solutions – Global Delivery Center (ACS-GDC)
  • Led India-based delivery and GCC operations for APAC and Japan, operating as part of Adobe’s global captive delivery organization, with accountability for execution stability, operating KPIs, leadership scale, and stakeholder confidence across high-impact enterprise engagements.
  • Headed India delivery for APAC & Japan, serving enterprise customers through Adobe’s global delivery center model, ensuring predictable execution and strong stakeholder outcomes.
  • Owned delivery excellence and business KPIs across a complex, multi-region portfolio, improving execution predictability and enabling 10%+ business growth within the first year.
  • Designed and scaled India delivery and leadership capacity to support growth across regulated and high-expectation enterprise environments.
  • Acted as primary India-side authority for delivery governance, escalation management, and cross-region stakeholder alignment.
  • Provided leadership oversight for learning and capability development within ACS-GDC for the JAPAC region, strengthening readiness and execution depth.
  • Served as Office Lead for Noida, providing site-level governance, leadership coverage, and culture stewardship for 250+ employees within Adobe’s captive delivery organization.
Portfolio deliveryAgile Application DevelopmentIndia delivery leadershipGovernance & executionAgile TransformationCross-functional Team Leadership+18

Publicis sapient

2 roles

Head of Engineering | Senior Director Of Technology

May 2003Sep 2022 · 19 yrs 4 mos · Delhi, India

  • Head of Engineering: Leading the vertical and several accounts for Engineering, Technology, Capability building, People, and Ways of Working
  • Driving Company wide initiatives: to bring efficiency, consistency, drive leadership charter, drive people initiatives and other engineering initiatives
  • Global Digital Platforms: Supporting digital systems and touchpoints, B2B and B2C eCommerce across the globe, rolling out solutions for end customers and field sales representatives
  • Technology Implementation: Reducing IT costs by several million dollars annually by platform consolidation, application, and IT Modernization, cloud enablement, spearheading cross geography global multi-disciplinary engineering teams, handling large-scale enterprise solutions, defining architectures
  • Technology Solutions: Partnering with clients on technology strategy to come up with short and long term technology and engineering road maps across their global presence covering NA, EU, LATAM, and APAC
  • Delivery Management: Ensured timely and quality delivery of work, accurate estimation, people mentoring, capability building, engineering maturity, partnering to define ways of working, owning and chairperson for running Innovation forum and other forums across teams and various other leadership facets
  • Global Frameworks: Designed a global framework for the digital eCommerce channel (both B2C & B2B) to make business rollouts to various countries which reduced roll-out cost by 50% over time
  • Quality Management: Ensured high quality, zero bug count project deliveries before go-live having 100% fully integrated automated journeys with no manual interventions, promoting in-sprint progressive automation
  • Clients: Medtronic, Waters Corporation, Keurig Dr Pepper, Aesop, Vale S.A, Independent Health, Vodafone UK, News International, Janus Capital Group, Harvard University, PetSmart, Kaiser Permanente, Sony Electronics, Sprint
HealthcareSAP Commerce CloudPortfolio deliveryDevOpsAgile Application DevelopmentIndia delivery leadership+23

Head Of Engineering | Senior Director of Technology

May 2003Sep 2022 · 19 yrs 4 mos · Delhi, India

  • Outcomes:
  • Successfully led complete digital transformation solutions resulting in 98% cost reduction to digitally serve customers, 100% digitizing old business models, increasing traffic by 30% and enhancing digital revenue by 25%
  • Played a significant role in IT Modernization, suggested roadmaps to drive IT strategy resulting in reduced TCO by 50% for clients saving millions of dollars every year by Cloud adoption and enablement, using SRE tenets to reduce operational costs and adopting DevOps
  • Skilled in collaborating on commercial IoT solutions, advanced personalization
  • Merit of delivering services worth USD 40 Million every year by implementing API led architecture, micro-services architecture, middleware and integrations, API gateways, leveraging packages and tools
  • Lead various Company wide Engineering initiatives such as Digital Commerce Estimation Standardization across disciplines. This cut down the sales cycles to half the time and significantly improved the efficiency as well as consistency of responses; SRE and Production Engineering standardization, Creating IP Assets and Accelerators, running Tech forums for the portfolio and vertical, Hiring, Community building, and many other initiatives
  • Significant contributor handholding and growing Centre of Excellence from inception till maturity
  • Demonstrated excellence in supporting higher revenue in unprecedented Covid times by 200%, also increase in subscription revenue from 12% to 50%, easier customer experience by single page checkout instead of a funnel driving 20% higher conversions
  • Merit of growing accounts from initial seed size of 2 squads to 12 squads and now doubling those to 24 squads in next 3-6 months, scaling teams and engineering aspects to deliver unprecedented outcomes
  • Distinction of improving engineering maturity score by 25% within three quarters across various tenets, measuring key KPIs to identify and prioritize areas to drive efficiencies and optimization
HealthcareSAP Commerce CloudDevOpsAgile Application DevelopmentAgile TransformationCross-functional Team Leadership+19

Sapient

Director Technology < Senior Manager Technology < Manager Technology < Senior Associate Technology

May 2003Sep 2022 · 19 yrs 4 mos · Delhi, India

HealthcareSAP Commerce CloudDevOpsAgile Application DevelopmentAgile TransformationCross-functional Team Leadership+18

Wipro technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2001Apr 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Delhi, India

HealthcareSAP Commerce CloudDevOpsAgile Application DevelopmentAgile TransformationCross-functional Team Leadership+18

Tata consultancy services

System Analyst

Sep 1999Dec 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos · Delhi, India

Digital Transformation

Education

National Institute of Technology Warangal

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — EEE

Jan 1995Jan 1999

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