Job Description

Responsibilities Own sprint delivery across 3–4 teams; maintain an honest and proactive delivery signal upward

Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies laterally — with peer managers, tech leads, and adjacent teams — without defaulting to escalation. Protect teams from delivery noise (ad-hoc requests, priority thrash) while preserving legitimate business responsiveness

Diagnose and act on sprint performance issues — distinguishing people, process, and technical root causes

Technical Leadership. Earn credibility with senior engineers through a hands-on dev background; challenge estimates, assess feasibility, and surface technical risk on a Java/Spring Boot/Kafka stack

Engage meaningfully on architectural and design decisions —not as a decision-maker, but as a credible technical voice. Identify risks in proposed solutions and engage constructively without undermining tech leads

People Development. Manage 30 engineers in Pune through tech leads; own their growth, career development, and retention. Build career paths that feel visible and achievable in an offshore context

Identify and turn around flight-risk engineers early; track attrition signals proactively

Develop tech leads — both their technical and people-leadership capability





Build a locally owned team culture in Pune — not one that feels execution-driven from onshore

Ensure Pune-based engineers receive equivalent growth, visibility, and development opportunities as onshore

Run distributed performance management cycles in partnership with onshore product owners

Drive thoughtful AI tooling adoption across teams — balancing experimentation with quality and security guardrails

Measure whether AI tools are genuinely improving velocity, not just creating a perception of speed

Required B.E./B. Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline Preferred M. Tech or MBA

,7–12 years total experience with 1-2 years of people management, including hands-on software engineering

Experience managing multiple scrum teams simultaneously

Prior work on Java/Spring Boot microservices

Experience managing offshore or distributed engineering teams

Familiarity with Kafka, reactive programming, and integration patterns (SQS, JMS)

Exposure to OA/academic publishing platforms or similarly complex B2B SaaS environments

Agile/Scrum certification (CSM, Protected, or equivalente

📌 Senior Architect (Pune)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 Pune