Position Title: Senior Manager of Engineering

Location: Hyderabad, India

Department: Engineering

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery:

- Lead multiple engineering teams (including engineering leads and individual contributors) responsible for enterprise-scale applications, ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery against roadmap commitments.
- Define and track engineering metrics (delivery velocity, quality, reliability, and cost), and continuously improve processes across planning, development, testing, and release.
- Balance priorities, capacity, and technical debt across teams, and manage risks, dependencies, and escalations with clarity and accountability.

Platform Design & Architecture:

- Drive the design, development, and optimization of core platform services, focusing on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Guide teams in building backend services with Java and Spring Boot, data solutions with SQL databases, and modern user interfaces with React.js.
- Oversee the development of APIs, microservices, and event-driven components that integrate seamlessly with existing systems and enable new capabilities.

Platform Modernization

- Lead efforts to modernize legacy systems and migrate them to cloud-native platforms and microservices architecture.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth data migration, system integrations, and platform transitions.
- Identify and implement new technologies and practices that improve platform performance and operational efficiency.

Performance & Scalability Optimization:

- Monitor and optimize platform performance, ensuring high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance for high-volume workloads.
- Identify bottlenecks, improve system efficiency, and manage the scaling of platform services to accommodate growing demands.
- Implement real-time data processing and analytics to enhance platform insights and decision-making.

Security & Compliance:

- Ensure robust security measures across platform services to protect sensitive data and comply with industry standards (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
- Ensure secure communication between platform components, apply sound encryption and key-management strategies, and enforce strong authentication and authorization.

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation:

- Build scalable, resilient, and secure cloud infrastructure supporting platform services and operations, with a preference for Azure.
- Implement DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and continuous delivery for rapid, reliable deployment of platform updates.




- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize cloud resources for performance and cost-efficiency.

Operational Efficiency & Monitoring:

- Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform stability and uptime.
- Proactively identify and resolve issues affecting platform services, ensuring minimal downtime, and lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Build and maintain disaster recovery plans to ensure high availability and business continuity.

Team Leadership & Mentorship:

- Hire, lead, and develop engineers and engineering leads across multiple teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development support.
- Foster a cooperative and high-performance culture, encouraging continuous learning, growth, and engineering excellence.
- Lead by example, promoting a culture of accountability, ownership, and innovation.

Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams:

- Work closely with product management, operations, and other engineering teams to ensure platform features meet business needs and align with strategic goals.
- Engage with senior leadership to ensure that platform initiatives align with broader business objectives and user needs.

Additional Responsibilities Decision Making & Alignment:

- Drive decisions related to platform architecture, technology choices, and development processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term strategy.
- Navigate ambiguity and make informed decisions in fast-changing environments, adapting plans as needed to meet evolving business priorities.

Experience with Global Teams

- Collaborate effectively with engineering teams across different geographic locations, ensuring alignment and smooth communication despite time zone and cultural differences.
- Lead or participate in cross-regional initiatives to optimize platform performance and ensure consistency across global systems.

Requirements Technical Skills & Experience:

Proven Experience

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a manager or leadership role leading multiple engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on background in Java, Spring Boot, SQL databases, and React.js,



with experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale applications.
- Expertise in building and maintaining scalable, distributed platforms and services, including microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD practices, and cloud infrastructure management to support platform operations.

Leadership & Collaboration:

- Team Leadership: Proven experience leading and mentoring multiple engineering teams, including managers or technical leads, helping to develop talent, foster a culture of innovation, and maintain high-performance standards.
- Enterprise-Scale Delivery: Track record of delivering and operating large, business-critical applications with multiple teams, dependencies, and stakeholders.
- Collaboration & Communication: Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, operations, and other engineering groups, to achieve shared goals.
- Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills to identify platform issues, optimize performance, and resolve complex technical challenges.

Decision-Making & Alignment:

- Ability to make informed technical decisions in ambiguous environments and navigate trade-offs between platform performance, scalability, and security.
- Experience driving alignment across teams and stakeholders on platform development priorities, ensuring a unified direction and efficient execution.

Communication & Interpersonal Skills:

- Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate platform requirements, technical solutions, and project progress to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to manage relationships and collaborate effectively with teams across various locations.

Education & Certifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
- Relevant certifications in Azure or other cloud platforms are a plus.

Nice to Have

- Experience in payments, issuer processing platforms, and tokenization (e.g., card issuing, authorization and settlement flows, token vaults, network or wallet tokenization).
- Hands-on experience with the Azure cloud platform (e.g., AKS, Azure SQL, Service Bus/Event Hubs, Azure DevOps, Key Vault, Azure Monitor).
- Experience working in platform engineering within insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture, event-driven design, serverless computing, and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of regulatory compliance standards such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and others related to platform security.
- Experience with third-party integrations and APIs.

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