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…