Engineering Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Lead and propose necessary processes to ensure a structured and predictable approach to software Engineering.
• Define and drive the technical strategy and development methodology.
• Plan and execute strategies for completing projects on time. Implement a system for monitoring and tracking project progress
• Balance, creating and repaying technical debt, and developing new features. Use technology and automation to help manage technical debt.
• Collaborate with organizational leadership to develop an annual budget for the engineering department. Assess the tools and technologies required for efficient project development. Regularly assess the effectiveness of budget allocations. Work with leadership to allocate budgets for tools, training, and staffing needed to support
• Set clear expectations, goals, and objectives for each team. Ensure a balanced distribution of work among teams to optimize productivity. Encourage collaboration between teams to promote knowledge sharing and cross-functional problem-solving. Implement performance metrics to monitor the progress of each team.
• Organize team-building activities that involve both your internal team and the vendor's team. This could include workshops, training sessions, or even informal gathering.
• Evaluate how emerging technologies could impact the team's skill requirements and project outcomes. Identify any gaps between the existing skills and those required to meet current or future project needs. Determine the need for training and talent development.
• Delegate technical decisions to your senior engineers but ask the right questions to ensure that the product is scalable, secure, and reliable.
• Bridge the gap between product management and engineering team by facilitating necessary interaction
• Anticipate and identify potential risks associated with the technical strategy, including technological challenges, resource constraints, and market changes. Develop mitigation plans to address identified risks, ensuring that the technical strategy remains resilient and adaptable.
• Evaluate, select, and implement monitoring tools and systems to enhance the observability of the engineering infrastructure. Set up effective alerting and notification systems to promptly respond to any anomalies or critical events, ensuring a proactive approach to system health.
• Establishing Support Processes: Define and implement robust support processes to ensure timely and effective resolution of incidents and customer issues.
• Demonstrate a forward-looking mindset by establishing and driving engineering and technology roadmaps aligned to business objectives. Leverage industry experience, emerging trends, AI capabilities, and engineering best practices to continuously improve software engineering, operational excellence, platform capabilities, and organizational maturity. Champion the adoption of AI, automation, and modern engineering practices across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality, scalability, and speed to market.

Preferred candidate profile

Candidates with good experience with SDLC

Minimum 6+ years of hard-core coding experience is mandatory

Excellent hands-on experience in coding in Python, AWS/Microservices will be added advantage

Good to have front-end framework knowledge like REACT/Angular.

Over all 9-13 Experience is mandatory.

Mandatory 2+ years of people management experience required.