Job Description

Role purpose

Lead a healthy, capable and outcome-owned engineering group that delivers X3 readiness while protecting quality, customer continuity, people development and sustainable delivery capacity.

X3 context

Sage X3 is the SaaS-readiness programme for X3: a progressive transformation from tightly coupled legacy runtime patterns towards portable, cloud-operable and upgradeable capabilities. The programme protects customer behaviour, partner IP and rollback while it modernises journeys, APIs, components, data paths, business logic, delivery automation and migration economics.

The role contributes to outcome-owned squads. India is a scalable engineering and product delivery centre, connected to Europe and North America through deliberate overlap, shared standards, recorded decisions and continuous support of production outcomes.

Required Technical And Domain Skills

• Experience leading software engineering teams delivering commercial, cloud or ERP products.
• Technical fluency across modern backend engineering, SQL/databases, APIs, legacy modernisation,



SaaS delivery and automation.
• Hands-on experience with containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Ability to manage distributed teams, dependencies, hiring, performance, development and difficult conversations.
• Comfort with delivery metrics, quality gates, reliability, support economics and evidence-based governance.
• Strong English communication and the judgement to balance near-term delivery with long-term capability.

Contemporary platform skills for this role

• Use developer and operator feedback, platform adoption, delivery flow, reliability, support effort and cost to guide capacity and improvement. Be fluent in secure delivery, identity, telemetry, lifecycle and rollback decisions for the group; implementation depth and tool use remain with the relevant engineers.

Preferred Skills

• Experience scaling India engineering capacity in a global product organisation.
• Hands-on exposure to L4G/4GL,

📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sage
📍 Bengaluru