Job Description

About the job
Manager - Modern Product Engineering
A Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for pioneering intelligent business outcomes, leading complex AI-native software engineering initiatives .
Your Responsibilities
This isn't a 'resource allocation' role. You are a forward-deployed solver (FDS) , a DRI who owns the velocity and quality of solution delivery. Your mission is to foster a team of expert engineers, lead execution rigor, and ensure that every project we ship is a benchmark for AI-driven modernization and real business outcome .
Here's how you'll make your mark:
Own Delivery Execution & Engineering Excellence.

• Lead the Squad: Serve as the hands-on leader for a team of Modern Product Engineers, owning project execution, code quality, and delivery timelines across multiple simultaneous client engagements.
• Translate Architecture to Code: Partner closely with Solutions Architects (SAs) to refine high-level blueprints into modular, shippable engineering tasks, ensuring technical feasibility and excellence.
• Process Enforcement: Implement and enforce our 'process-first' standards, ensuring rigorous application of agile methodologies, code reviews, and quality benchmarks across the BU's portfolio.
• Quality Assurance: Own the quality engineering lifecycle, ensuring strong test coverage, minimised technical debt, and robust CI/CD pipeline integrity for every deployment.

Drive Team Growth & Operational Health.

• Elevate Talent: Actively coach, mentor, and elevate the technical skills of your squad, guiding engineers through their growth paths and driving high internal promotion rates.
• Culture Carrier: Champion the "Always in Beta" mindset and "Happier" values within the team, fostering a high-ownership, accountable, and collaborative culture.
• Operational Insight: Manage the squad's utilization and efficiency targets, balancing billable work with critical internal IP creation and capability building.

Bridge Clients & Outcome.

• Client Interface: Serve as the technical point-of-contact for operational project discussions, managing client expectations regarding timelines, scope, and technical trade-offs.
• IP Development: Guide the team in creating and maintaining reusable assets, shared code libraries, and specialized automation scripts that enhance the BU's offering and market differentiation
• Lead engaging discovery workshops using first-principles thinking to uncover core client problems amenable to AI-powered software solutions.
• Apply our proprietary evlos methodology--iterate fast and fearlessly in the design and development of innovative systems.
• Your role is to serve as the chief technical translator between a client's biggest challenges and our most intelligent, AI-powered software engineering solutions.
• Design AI-native, cloud-forward solutions grounded in process intelligence that drive true value.
• Replace "nice slides" with "pleasant surprises for clients" via working real outcomes.

Lead by example & impact, Not control.

• Here, leadership is an action, not a title. You are the DRI for intelligent, impactful, client outcomes driven by robust software architecture.
• Mentor and technically guide fellow engineers, actively contributing to the growth of top-tier solver talent.
• Live the "Always in Beta" mindset - build learners, not followers in our engineering practices.
• Model extreme ownership, radical clarity, and calm in chaos when facing complex technical challenges.
• Believe in truth over comfort and learning over knowing, especially in the rapidly evolving AI/Cloud landscape.
• Contribute to cultivating a culture of self-managed, happier do-ers through technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving.

Functional Skills

• Technical Delivery & Execution Leadership: Proven track record of managing a technical team to successfully deliver complex software engineering projects (5+ years of direct project/team leadership experience preferred). Must demonstrate recent, high-level architectural design and hands-on coding ability.
• Engineering Standards & Governance: Deep proficiency in codifying and enforcing modern engineering best practices: clean code, test-driven development, security standards (OWASP), and CI/CD quality gates.
• Execution Rigor: Expert in Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies and skilled in managing project timelines, risks, and resource allocation to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Active Technical Problem Solving: Possesses the deep technical depth required to troubleshoot critical production issues, review pull requests (PRs) effectively, and make rapid, informed technical decisions under pressure.
• Technical Communication & Mentorship: Excellent ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineers and project stakeholders. A passion for coaching and developing junior talent.
• Commercial Awareness: Strong understanding of project economics, resource utilization, and the need to maintain profitability and efficiency within the BU.
• Sustained Coding/Architecting Experience: Must maintain current, demonstrable hands-on expertise in the core tech stack (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js, and Cloud-Native platforms).

Tech Superpowers

• Core Modern Engineering Mastery: Expert in managing development on Cloud-Native and API-First architectures (Microservices, Containers, Serverless), with proven personal capability to code and deploy.
• DevOps & MLOps Fluency: Highly proficient in managing and automating CI/CD pipelines , deployment strategies, and monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Technical Problem Solver: Possesses the deep technical depth required to troubleshoot critical production issues and make rapid, informed decisions under pressure.
• Pragmatic Tool Picker: Makes technology choices based on scalability and velocity, balancing the latest tech trends with operational stability and cost efficiency.

Experience & Relevance

• Technical Experience : 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a Lead Developer or Team Lead role overseeing project delivery.
• Hands-on Credibility : Must have demonstrable evidence of recent architectural design work and coding contributions (e.g., in a Principal Engineer or Architect capacity) prior to or concurrent with management responsibilities.
• Domain Focus : Prior experience delivering projects focused on digital transformation, data intelligence, or applied AI/ML solutions.
• Management Credential s: Certified in Scrum/Agile practices (e.g., PSM, CSM).
• Cultural Fit : A demonstrable history of mentorship, ownership, and contribution to a positive, high-performance team culture.

Bonus Points (you will thrive if you have)

• Brings CTO Energy: Brings a potent mix of technical vision, high ownership, relentless execution, and a clear bias for driving real-world impact through engineering solutions.
• Impactful Contributor to Transformation at Scale: Played a pivotal role in driving large-scale technical transformations for significant enterprises (e.g., within major business units of $1Bn+ organizations), delivering tangible engineering outcomes beyond mere slideware.
• Production-Ready Automation Engineering: Has engineered and delivered production-grade software solutions for horizontal automation across functions across diverse domains like telecom, fintech, healthcare, or retail, moving beyond theoretical concepts to real-world, operational systems.
• Scaling Expertise (0?1, 1?10): You understand what it takes to build and grow software solutions, products, or engineering initiatives with speed and intent, from inception to significant scale.

Skills Required