Vice President - Application Development & Management Services - BFSI

Position : Vice President, Application Development & Management Services (ADMS)
Industry : BFSI / IT Services / Technology Consulting
Location : Bengaluru
Experience : 20+ Years
We are looking for a senior technology and delivery leader to lead large-scale Application Development & Management Services (ADMS) portfolios for global banking & financial services clients.
This is a strategic leadership role combining technology transformation, scaled delivery, managed services, executive client engagement and business growth. The role is not a direct sales position but requires the ability to build trusted C-level relationships and identify opportunities to expand existing engagements.
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead large and complex ADMS portfolios covering development, maintenance, modernisation, transformation and production support.

- Manage large, globally distributed technology teams across multiple accounts and technology stacks.
- Build relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and senior BFSI stakeholders.
- Drive application modernisation, cloud migration, re-platforming and engineering transformation.
- Lead end-to-end application lifecycle, governance, SLA, quality, productivity and operational excellence.
- Build and scale teams comprising engineering managers, architects, delivery/program managers and PMO leaders.
- Partner with Sales, Solutioning and Architecture teams on strategic pursuits, solution design, estimation, commercials and transition.
- Drive AI/GenAI, automation, DevSecOps, cloud-native engineering and productivity transformation.
- Own delivery economics, including revenue, margins, P&L, productivity and operational performance.
- Build leadership pipelines, succession plans and a high-performance delivery culture.
Ideal Candidate Profile :
- 20+ years of experience in application development, application management, technology delivery, consulting and/or managed services.
- Strong background in IT services / technology consulting / digital engineering.
- Deep BFSI domain experience, preferably across multiple global banking/financial-services clients.
- Proven experience managing large ADMS / application-managed service portfolios.
- Experience with application modernisation, cloud transformation and digital engineering.
- Strong exposure to enterprise/custom applications, ERP/CRM, APIs, integration and cloud platforms.
- Experience managing large P&L/revenue portfolios and delivery economics.
- Proven ability to engage with CIO/CTO/CDO-level stakeholders.
- Leadership experience through engineering managers, architects, program/delivery managers and PMO, rather than being an individual technology specialist.
We are particularly interested in leaders from Leading IT Services | Technology Consulting | Digital Engineering | BFSI Technology Services.
If you are currently leading ADMS / Application Services / Managed Services / BFSI Technology Delivery at scale and are ready for a VP-level leadership mandate, we'd like to hear from you.