Executive Manager | Delivery Manager | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

A Day in the Life

In this role, you will lead multiple engineering PODs delivering high-impact platform capabilities across Rental and Digital ecosystems. Your day will involve balancing strategic leadership with execution oversight, ensuring teams are aligned to both long-term architectural goals and near-term delivery commitments.

You will collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, and Operations leaders to evolve systems supporting end-to-end rental workflows, counter operations, customer journeys, and mobile experiences. You will guide teams through complex decisions such as modernizing legacy systems, adopting microservices and event-driven patterns, and optimizing system performance at scale.

A significant part of your day will be spent mentoring engineering leaders, reviewing architectural decisions, resolving cross-team dependencies, and ensuring consistent adoption of best practices across cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability, and security.

You will also engage with executive stakeholders to provide visibility into delivery progress, risks, and investment priorities, while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across globally distributed teams.

Key Responsibilities:

· Define and articulate a long-term technology vision and platform strategy aligned to business growth, operational scalability, and customer experience goals

· Oversee multiple engineering domains (backend, frontend, mobile, QA, DevOps) ensuring alignment across RAC and/ or Digital platforms

· Drive large-scale transformation initiatives including:

· Legacy system modernization

· Microservices and API adoption

· Event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka)

· Lead organizational design, hiring, and development of Senior Managers, Architects, and Tech Leads

· Establish governance frameworks for:

· Architecture standards

· Security and compliance

· Engineering quality and performance

· Partner with Product and business stakeholders to define roadmaps for rental workflows, pricing systems, customer journeys, and mobile platforms

· Own engineering KPIs including delivery velocity, system reliability, performance SLAs, and cost efficiency

· Manage budgets, capacity planning, vendor relationships, and resource allocation

· Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and engineering excellence

· Represent engineering leadership in executive forums, customer discussions, and partner engagements

Required Skills & Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field.

· 15+ years of combined technical and management experience building software and leading engineering organizations.

· Deep intellectual curiosity about technologies across the stack; breadth of experience in backend, frontend, mobile, QA and DevOps practices.

· Proven track record of setting strategy, driving execution and delivering complex programs at scale.

· Exceptional people leadership, coaching and change management skills; demonstrated ability to inspire high performing teams.

· Expert communication skills with ability to interface credibly at all levels of the business and with external partners.

· Strong financial acumen and hands-on experience with budgeting, resource planning and P&L management (if applicable).

· Experience in navigating risk, regulation and compliance environments applicable to technology and data.

· Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and ethical engineering practices.