ABOUT THE POSITION

The Software Engineering Manager is responsible for building and leading a diverse team of engineers, analysts, QA, etc. accountable for delivering technology capabilities in partnership with business stakeholders and architecture. Accountable to develop and execute strategies and plans to deliver business partner objectives with low-to-medium complexity. Responsible for the growth and development of members of the team, aligning individual interests, performance, and potential to organization needs and goals. Accountable for advancing the team's technical foundation to deliver up-to-date, simple, and secure solutions, and improve engineering skills within the development team. Champions adoption of DevOps practices to improve reliability, efficiency, and confidence of software delivery. This role partners with external software vendors, where applicable, to integrate seamlessly and drive value for the company.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Partner with business stakeholders to inform prioritization, identify dependencies,



and influence the roadmap to ensure non-functional requirements are known and represented in roadmaps to help drive technical decisions.
- Provide data and insights to inform roadmap decisions such as performance and impact data relevant to digital initiatives, helping to define and track KPIs that measure value from technology investments, and evaluating outcomes to inform iteration, scale, or sunset decisions.
- Encourage and ensure that engineers on the team feel a shared ownership of the team's backlog, and proactively contribute to it to advance the team's technical roadmap. Work with leadership to raise visibility to and help resolve organizational impediments.
- Ways of Working: Build and foster adoption of technical delivery best practices across your teams. Choose the right delivery model (i.e. waterfall, single release, continuous delivery) for the work with appropriate delivery milestones and early testing. Participate

📌 Manager, Software Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Columbia Sportswear
📍 Bengaluru