We’re looking for someone ready to step into Engineering Management — a people-focused leader with strong engineering understanding, delivery ownership, and the ability to support engineering teams in an AI-enabled environment

What You’ll Do

• Lead and support an engineering team in delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Coach, mentor, and help engineers grow.
• Improve team ways of working, ownership, and collaboration.
• Work closely with Product/POs and stakeholders on priorities and delivery.
• Identify delivery, team, or process risks and drive resolution.
• Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and team development.
• Guide the team on effective and responsible AI usage.
• Promote good practices around quality, observability, incidents, and automation.

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience as a Senior/Lead Engineer, Team Lead, or similar role.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring, guiding, or coordinating engineers.
• Good understanding of software development and contemporary engineering practices.
• Experience working in fast-paced Agile/Scrum environments.




• Strong ownership, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Understanding of AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Self-driven, pragmatic, and people-focused.

Behavioral Attributes

• Ownership mindset, extended to the team You own your team's systems, but lead through others.
• Accountability: You own mistakes honestly and drive the retro.
• Proactive communication: You escalate early and build the same habit in your team.
• Continuous improvement: You turn incidents into better systems and better engineers.

Nice to have

• Exposure to performance management or people-development discussions.
• Experience working with distributed/remote teams.
• Experience improving engineering quality, automation, observability, or incident handling.

Who this role is ideal for

Senior/Lead Engineers or Team Leads who are already taking leadership responsibi

📌 Associate Engineering Manager (Chennai)
🏢 DigitalTolk
📍 Chennai