- Job ID: 11101BR
- Location: India-Bangalore
- Work Setup: Onsite
- Job Category: Engineering
- Posting Date: July 3, 2026

Position Overview

Deltek is seeking an India-based Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed Shared Product Services team responsible for building reusable capabilities and driving cross-product engineering consistency across the Deltek PPM (Project Portfolio Management) suite of products. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this leader plays a critical role in reducing duplication, accelerating delivery, and ensuring product teams can ship with confidence and quality.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and deliver shared capabilities — Build reusable services, libraries, frameworks, and integration models that product teams across the PPM suite can adopt to reduce duplication and improve consistency
- Drive product-team adoption — Partner with product teams to integrate shared functionality, creating adoption paths, migration guidance, release notes, and support models that respect release timelines and customer commitments
- Own cross-product control processes — Lead engineering governance processes including Database Change Control and Security Vulnerability management, ensuring visibility and consistency across teams
- Manage global delivery — Coordinate work across distributed teams with differing priorities and release schedules; maintain alignment through clear written communication and proactive risk management
- Champion reliability and operational excellence — Set high standards for security, performance,



and operational readiness; drive disciplined practices around testing, rollback planning, documentation, and incident learning
- Embed AI-first engineering practices — Define and evolve AI-first development practices that improve code quality, delivery speed, testing, documentation, and team productivity
- Lead the Customer Care liaison function — Own the Help Desk liaison between Customer Care and Development, ensuring customer-reported issues and escalations are triaged, routed, and resolved effectively
- Grow and develop the team — Manage, coach, and develop a distributed team of approximately 8–10 engineers/technical staff, fostering a culture of ownership, technical judgment, collaboration, and customer focus

Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful hands-on engineering work
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, including people management, delivery accountability, and team development
- Experience with Enterprise Windows Desktop and Web solutions built on technologies including C++, C#.Net, VB.Net, JavaScript, Oracle, and SQL Server
- Experience leading teams that built reusable software capabilities — shared services, common components, internal libraries,



SDKs, frameworks, or APIs — consumed by multiple product or engineering teams
- Solid technical judgment across architecture, design, security, reliability, database change, and operational discussions
- Proven ability to deliver complex technical programs with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities
- Demonstrated ability to influence teams and senior technical contributors outside your direct reporting line
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level updates and decision documents
- Experience working effectively across time zones with globally distributed teams and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in multi-product enterprise software environments
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams and partnering with US-based senior engineering leadership
- Experience with shared component versioning, backward compatibility, package management, migration planning, and deprecation strategies
- Experience managing database change control, vulnerability remediation, or cross-product engineering governance
- Experience partnering with customer support or sustaining engineering functions to triage and resolve product issues
- Experience using AI-assisted tools to improve software delivery, code review, testing, documentation, or engineering management workflows
- Experience leading teams through modernization, technical consolidation, or cross-product standardization initiatives

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📌 Senior Manager, Software Engineering (India)
🏢 Deltek
📍 India