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The Next Decade of Engineering Is Being Built Now

By September 2, 2026No Comments

Why 2026 is a particularly interesting time to build your career at NewVision Software

Saksham Sarode | VP, Digital Assurance & RPA, Solutioning and Innovation, NewVision Software, a SoftServe company

The industry is at an inflection point. So is your career.

I have spent more than two decades in technology delivery, quality engineering, and digital transformation. I have watched the industry change repeatedly.

From waterfall to agile.
From manual testing to automation.
From on-premise to cloud.

Every shift created a window. The people who recognised it early, invested in the right skills, and moved close to the transformation often built careers that defined the next decade.

I believe we are in one of those moments again.

AI is not simply changing the tools engineers use. It is changing how software is designed, built, tested, operated, and governed—and what organisations expect from their technology partners.

The engineers who learn to work alongside AI will have an advantage. But the bigger opportunity belongs to those who learn to design, engineer, assure, and deliver AI-native systems.

That is the capability shaping the next generation of enterprise technology.

And at NewVision Software, a SoftServe company, that is increasingly the work we are building around.

What building a career here actually looks like

I joined NewVision Software because of two things: the quality of the work and the quality of the people.

We work on complex, end-to-end programmes for global enterprises across financial services, healthtech, audit and tax, technology, and other industries. The problems are real, the stakes are high, and the outcomes matter.

More importantly, our people are expected to own those outcomes.

You can be part of a client conversation before the solution is defined, shape an architecture, challenge assumptions, build the solution, assure it, and stay close to what happens in production.

That is very different from task-based delivery.

It is consultative. It is high ownership. And it develops something no technology course can teach on its own: professional judgement.

You don’t just accumulate technologies on your CV. You learn to solve problems, influence decisions, and take responsibility for outcomes.

That is how engineers become leaders.

The next frontier: engineering for AI

The area I find particularly exciting is agentic assurance.

As software becomes more autonomous, the boundaries between development, testing, operations, and governance start to change.

AI agents can reason, make decisions, use tools, interact with other systems, and adapt their behaviour. That creates entirely new engineering questions.

How do you know an agent is behaving reliably? How do you evaluate non-deterministic outputs? How do you test grounding, guardrails, tool use, security, and behaviour?

And perhaps most importantly:

How do you design an AI-enabled programme so that it is assurable from Day 1?

I believe this is where quality engineering is heading—not simply testing software after it is built, but engineering trust into intelligent systems from the beginning.

That requires people willing to learn across software engineering, AI, automation, data, risk, and quality.

That is the kind of talent I want to work with.

What SoftServe changes

NewVision Software is now part of SoftServe, bringing together NewVision’s consultative engineering model and domain expertise with SoftServe’s global engineering ecosystem and deep capabilities across AI, cloud, data, and emerging technologies.

For our people, the value isn’t simply scale.

It means access to a broader engineering community, global learning and certification opportunities, exposure to international programmes, and the potential to work across technologies, domains, and geographies as your career develops.

Big enough for meaningful opportunities. Small enough for your contribution to be visible.

Why 2026 matters

The AI transformation of enterprise technology is happening now. Organisations are moving beyond experiments and asking harder questions: How do we put AI into real business processes? How do we move agents into production? How do we build the engineering and assurance capabilities needed to operate them responsibly?

The window to learn is open now.

You can wait until AI-native engineering becomes a standard job requirement.

Or you can develop those capabilities while the discipline itself is still being defined.

I would choose the second.

Because the people who build capability while an industry is changing are often the people who get to define what comes next.

A personal invitation

I’m not interested in simply filling roles.

I’m interested in building a team of people who want to build, learn, challenge, and lead.

People who are curious enough to move beyond their current expertise. People who want to work on problems that don’t always have an established answer. People who understand that the next stage of their career may be defined not by what they already know, but by how quickly they can learn what comes next.

That is the kind of team I want to build.

And that is why I believe 2026 is a particularly exciting time to build your career at NewVision Software.

The next decade of engineering is being built now.

The question is: do you want to help build it?

Explore our career opportunities: NewVision Careers

Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham-sarode-b839441/

Saksham Sarode

VP, Digital Assurance, Solutioning and Innovation NewVision Software, a SoftServe company

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