Sr. Engineering Manager – OpenBlue Data Platform

Location: Pune, India

Summary

Lead engineering delivery for a core part of OpenBlue's data platform, spanning platform development, migrations, data unification efforts, and ongoing stability and quality work. Manage a multi-level org of managers, leads, and ICs across dev and QA, and coordinate closely with other engineering pods to keep releases on track.

Responsibilities
Manage and develop a multi-level engineering org (Eng Managers, Tech Leads, Developers, Test Engineers)
Drive major engineering initiatives and platform migrations
Own sprint delivery, testing support, and production deployment cadence
Manage project plans, timelines, and dependencies across workstreams
Partner with product/architecture on technical roadmap
Manage performance, growth opportunities, hiring, and staffing across the team
Report status/risks to leadership and cross-team stakeholders
Coordinate with QA leads on defect burn-down and release quality

Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,



or related field
10+ yrs software engineering, 3+ yrs managing managers/leads
Experience with large-scale data platform initiatives (cloud data warehousing, Iceberg/Snowflake/Postgres)
Experience with event driven architecture
Experience with Kafka, SNS/SQS, Event Hubs or other message brokers
General familiarity with Java, .NET, JavaScript, and React
Strong grasp of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and sprint-based delivery
Track record leading in office engineering teams
Robust stakeholder management with US+UK-based leadership
Strong written and verbal English proficiency
Experience with observability and production support (monitoring, alerting, on-call)

Nice to have
Experience with large-scale system consolidation or platform unification projects
Experience with API commercialization
Background in IoT/building-management
Frontend/fullstack development experience

📌 Sr Engineering Manager Openblue Data Platform Maharashtra
🏢 Johnson Controls
📍 Maharashtra