Location: Pune, India
Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager
Team size: 5-6 direct reports; 15-20 indirect (via leads/senior engineers)
Employment type: Full-time
Experience: 10+ years total
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team building software for building management and controls, including platforms that connect, monitor, and optimize HVAC, energy, lighting, and other building systems. You'll manage 5-6 direct reports and provide technical and delivery leadership across a broader group of 15-20 engineers, using Java, .NET, Kafka, and Angular. You'll partner with Product, Architecture, QA, and Embedded/Controls teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.
What You'll Do
• Lead, coach, and grow direct reports (leads and senior engineers) and extend your influence to the wider 15-20 member team through them
• Hire, onboard, and retain solid talent, and build a high-trust, high-performance culture in the Pune team
• Own end-to-end delivery: roadmap planning, sprint execution, risk management,



and dependency management across teams
• Guide architecture and design across Java and .NET services, Kafka-based event streaming, and Angular front ends
• Oversee design and operation of Kafka pipelines handling telemetry and events from building devices and controllers (topic design, partitioning, schema management, consumer lag, fault tolerance)
• Drive integration with building automation protocols and systems (e.g., BACnet, Modbus, MQTT, OPC UA) and IoT/edge gateways
• Ensure quality, reliability, and security for systems that interact with physical infrastructure, including alarms, scheduling, and device commissioning workflows
• Champion engineering best practices: code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and secure coding
• Manage technical debt, modernization, and migrations (e.g., legacy .NET to modern .NET, monolith to microservices)
• Work with global stakeholders and distributed teams, aligni

📌 Engineering Manager (Pune)
🏢 Johnson Controls
📍 Pune