Summary

Guidewire is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Product Development pod within our Skilled Services AI Engineering team in Bangalore. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will own both people management for our growing dev pod (Product Engineers, UI/UX, QA, SecOps) and the dev-side technical direction for our AI productization work. Unlike a pure manager role, you will hold Architect-equivalent technical authority over backend architecture, system design, and platform-scaling decisions.
Job Description

You will partner with our AI Architect and Platform Architect to ensure that 4–6 concurrent AI productization projects ship reliably, securely, and at scale, while building a high-performing engineering culture inside the dev pod.
Key Responsibilities
• Team Leadership: Build, grow, and retain a high-performing dev pod of Senior and Consultant Product Engineers, a UI/UX Systems Developer, the QA Dev Architect, and a SecOps Engineer. Own hiring, performance, career development, and team operations.
• Dev-Side Architecture:



Hold Architect-level authority for product-side technical decisions — backend architecture, deterministic business logic, database access patterns, and system scaling choices (e.g., RabbitMQ-backed queues, async processing patterns).
• Delivery Oversight: Set the bar for code quality, review standards, and release readiness across all Strike Teams. Day-to-day per-project technical calls are delegated to the SR Product Engineers leading each team; you set the standards they execute against.
• Cross-Pod Coordination: Pair with the AI Architect to ensure deterministic and non-deterministic components compose cleanly. Work with the Platform Architect on shared CI/CD, infrastructure, and observability requirements.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Translate priorities from PS leadership into project commitments, capacity plans, and quarterly roadmaps. Represent the dev pod in regional AI governance forums.
• Hiring

📌 Senior Manager- AI Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Guidewire
📍 Bengaluru