Job Details

- Job Title: Engineering Manager
- Location: Bengaluru
- Experience: 12 - 15 Years
- Opening: 1

Role description

At 7-Eleven, we are disruptors, makers, and innovators. Our mission is to create digital products that positively impact hundreds of thousands of people every day. We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team to lead and drive the execution of high-impact software projects, ensuring high-quality technical delivery while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. The Senior Engineering Manager plays a pivotal role in driving technology delivery, platform scalability, and organizational growth across multiple product lines within the GSC. This role combines deep technical leadership, execution excellence, and people development with a strong focus on aligning GSC delivery to global business priorities. The Senior Engineering Manager partners closely with Product, Business, and Architecture leaders across geographies to ensure the GSC operates as a trusted innovation and execution hub, delivering measurable impact at scale.

Responsibilities

Execution & Delivery Excellence

- Oversee multiple engineering teams, ensuring predictable, high-quality, and timely delivery across sprints and releases.
- Translate global business and product priorities into executable delivery plans with clear milestones and success measures.
- Define delivery governance, metrics, and review cadences that provide visibility to global stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement in release velocity, quality, and predictability through automation, observability, and CI/CD efficiency.
- Lead modernization initiatives that strengthen performance, scalability, and technical debt reduction across products.

Technical Leadership & Platform Evolution

- Collaborate with Principal Architects and senior engineers to evolve platform architectures for scale, resilience, and performance.
- Drive the adoption of modern, cloud-native, event-driven, and API-first design patterns.
- Build and promote reusable frameworks, components, and shared services that accelerate global delivery.
- Ensure architectural alignment across product lines and markets, balancing innovation with maintainability.
- Champion technical governance, design reviews,



and long-term technology vision for the GSC.

People Leadership & Capability Building

- Lead and mentor multiple Engineering Managers and Senior Engineers, fostering a high-performance, accountable, and inclusive culture.
- Drive succession planning, career progression frameworks, and structured technical mentorship programs.
- Partner with global and local HR teams to strengthen GSC's engineering brand and attract top-tier talent.
- Institutionalize best practices in software craftsmanship, code quality, and design standards.
- Build organizational capability and leadership depth to enable the GSC's next phase of growth.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Global Alignment

- Partner with Product, Design, and Business leaders across geographies to shape technical roadmaps and influence product direction.
- Manage dependencies across global teams, ensuring clarity of ownership, alignment of goals, and seamless execution across time zones.
- Represent GSC in global reviews and planning forums, driving visibility for engineering outcomes and innovation.
- Foster a "one-team" culture by building strong communication, transparency, and alignment between global and GSC teams.
- Lead trade-off discussions, ensuring the right balance between speed, quality, and long-term scalability.

Operational Excellence & Risk Governance

- Own the operational health of delivered systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and compliance with defined SLAs.
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and drive preventive action through continuous learning and process improvement.
- Establish robust governance around quality, change management, and release readiness.
- Drive FinOps and cost optimization initiatives, ensuring efficient use of cloud and infrastructure resources.
- Maintain alignment with enterprise standards on security, privacy, and compliance.

Strategic Growth & Transformation

- Contribute to defining the GSC's technology charter,



maturity roadmap, and future operating model.
- Drive automation, AI/ML, and platform-first initiatives that elevate GSC from a delivery center to a center of innovation.
- Partner with global leadership to scale products and platforms into recent markets and regions.
- Identify reuse opportunities, accelerators, and global process improvements that reduce cycle time and enhance productivity.
- Enable long-term business value creation through platform scalability, standardization, and engineering excellence.

Technical Expertise

- 12+ years of experience in software development and engineering leadership, with 4-6 years in people management roles.
- Proven experience managing multiple engineering teams or product lines in large-scale enterprise or GSC environments.
- Deep hands-on understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and API-first design.
- Proficiency in backend or full-stack technologies (Java, Node.js, or similar), RESTful APIs, and microservices.
- Strong foundation in CI/CD automation, observability, DevOps practices, and cost-optimized cloud operations.
- Experience in modern data integration, system interoperability, and multi-tenant architecture design.

Leadership & Behavioural Competencies

- Strategic thinker with the ability to connect engineering outcomes to business impact.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across global teams.
- Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional, multi-region programs with high complexity.
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies and product-oriented engineering culture.
- Strong focus on operational excellence, delivery discipline, and measurable outcomes.
- Passion for mentoring leaders, nurturing innovation, and strengthening GSC identity.

Education & Experience

- Experience in highly available, large-scale enterprise systems and performance tuning.
- Experience working in retail or cloud-native product development.

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📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 7-Eleven
📍 Bengaluru