Job Description

Role Title: Sr Software Engineering Manager
Position Summary:
This role is a player / coach manager and a contributing member of multiple technology teams. It oversees technology delivery of their teams, which may be comprised of full-time technologists, contingent workers, and/or vendor partners.
This role guides technology direction and leads technical initiatives at an organization level and across product teams. They are the quality gatekeeper of their teams and ensures FM development, security, and test standards are followed by overseeing coding process and ensures standards and process such as code reviews, refinement, and releases are followed through their technical guidance and leadership. They are a servant leader and helps to remove obstacles from their teams proactively identifying risk and providing technology proof of concept and templates.
This role is focused on building strong teams and ensures their team members have the appropriate technical skills and cultural fit through coaching and mentoring. The role helps to build and maximize the capabilities and skills within and across the Software Engineering department. They are responsible for the development and growth of their full-time employees and building of their individual competencies. They are responsible for team composition optimization, for reviewing priorities and assessing resource and or backlog redirection, for metrics associated with talent evolution, and for all other administrative responsibilities within the department.
The role holder is a technologist who identifies relevant technology trends and tools that could improve skillsets within the organization and overall technology product delivery. This role acts as practice leader who engages with product owners as a technical SME.
Job Responsibilities:

• Technical Value Delivery Team Level for all Team Members: Driving Delivery & Tech Needs.
• Quality Gatekeeper: Coding Process, Code Reviews, Refinement, Releases, Technical Guidance & Leadership.
• Remove Blockers - Raise Risks, CRs, Paves the Way via POCs, Templating. Removes Distractions.
• Team Building - Building Strong Dev Teams, Tech & Cultural Fit Eval, Coach & Mentor the Team.
• Administration Team Level: Admin of/for Direct Reports both full-time and contingent: Hiring, Workday Admin, HR, Immigration, Required Training, Access, Contracts, Legal, Budgeting, Planning.
• Develops Talent Individual Level for Full Time Employees, 1:1s, Individual Coach & Mentor, Training, Finding New Opportunities, Performance Reviews, Promotions.
• Expand Capabilities SBE, Tech Product Level: Drives Strategy, Leading Strategic Org Objectives: Future Tech Needs, POCs, Community of Interest sponsorship.

Skill and Experience:

• 10 to 16 years of Experience Required to Perform Essential Job Functions.
• Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): Experience in development and evaluating technologies, running effective technology proof of concepts, and managing technology vendor relationships. Experience interviewing, hiring and assessing personnel. Experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing highly motivated technical workforce.
• Strong background in appropriate areas of technology. Communication skills to provide guidance and education on new concepts and practices to engineering team members; Ability to provide clear and direction communication regarding performance and skill development; Proven skills in coaching engineering team members in the areas of performance, standards and work methods; Proven ability to resolve conflicts in within and across teams; before they escalate (mediation skills); Ability to organize events (theme meetings, hackathons) in the subject area; Ability to create an atmosphere of trust and comfortable and efficient work environment.

Must Have Skills:

• Enterprise software architecture and full SDLC, including AI software tooling
• HTML, CSS, C#, .NET, JavaScript, and SQL
• Cloud-native development, containerization, and integration/API design
• Software quality and security principles and practices
• Low-code platforms like OutSystems or MS Power Platform is a plus

Education and Certifications:

• B. E / B.Tech / Any Master's Degree

Work location:Bengaluru