The Senior Manager, Application is responsible for leading the strategy, delivery, and operations of the organization’s business-critical applications, spanning both software development and quality assurance functions. This role provides leadership, direction, and oversight to ensure that applications are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with business priorities. The Senior Manager partners with senior leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to translate organizational strategy into actionable technology roadmaps and high-quality deliverables. This role is critical to driving operational excellence, technical innovation, and team development that enable business growth and continuous improvement.

Essential Duties
Define and execute the strategic roadmap for application development and quality assurance, ensuring alignment with overall IT and business strategy.
Provide leadership and oversight for end-to-end delivery of the application portfolio, ensuring high quality, performance, and reliability across all initiatives.
Build, develop,



and mentor a high-performing technical organization; drive talent acquisition, retention, performance management, and succession planning.
Partner with senior business stakeholders, product owners, and IT leadership to define priorities, requirements, and measurable outcomes.
Establish and enforce engineering, quality, and governance standards, ensuring consistency, security, and compliance across the application portfolio.
Manage operating budgets, vendor relationships, and resource planning to optimize cost, quality, and delivery outcomes.
Drive adoption of contemporary engineering and quality practices, including Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud, and test automation.
Oversee architectural and technology decisions for application platforms; identify and mitigate risks across delivery, security, compliance, and operations.
Represent the application function in executive forums, governance committees, and cross-fun

📌 Sr. Manager, Applications (Mumbai)
🏢 GIA Services
📍 Mumbai