Role: Engineering Manager Function: Engineering / Technology Leadership
Type: Full-time
Industry: Market Research, Data & Insights, Technology

The company is a data-driven marketing research firm with over 25 years of experience. It operates one of the world's largest consumer research networks, with 130 million+ global panelists.
The company serves approximately 2,500 domestic and 1,500 overseas clients across Asia-Pacific. It integrates survey, digital behavioral, and daily purchase data to deliver comprehensive insights.
This role leads a product engineering team within the company's Global Technology Department. The Engineering Manager is responsible for technical direction, delivery quality, and production reliability across a modern cloud-native stack. The role bridges deep technical engagement with people leadership — setting engineering standards, driving architectural decisions, and building a team that independently owns and delivers outcomes. Close collaboration with product, design, and Japan-based stakeholders is required to align engineering execution with business priorities across geographies.

Own the team's technical direction and delivery outcomes, ensuring engineering decisions support product goals, maintainability, scalability, and reliability
Lead architecture and system design discussions, evaluate technical trade-offs, and guide implementation decisions for complex or ambiguous problems
Take end-to-end accountability for delivery, engineering quality, production reliability, and technical risks — establish clear priorities, address blockers, and ensure commitments are managed transparently
Establish high engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and production operations, driving continuous improvement in quality and reliability
Drive effective adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows, improving engineering productivity while maintaining accountability for code quality, security, and production outcomes
Support hiring, performance management,



and engineer development to build a strong, accountable, and high-performing engineering team

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or equivalent technical leadership role

- Strong technical foundation in software development, architecture, and system design, with the ability to evaluate implementation details and challenge technical decisions
- Demonstrated experience owning technical direction and making sound engineering decisions for production systems
- Proven ability to take end-to-end accountability for delivery, balancing scope, speed, engineering quality, reliability, and long-term technical health
- Solid understanding of modern engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, production operations, and incident management
- Experience identifying technical risks, resolving complex problems, and removing blockers to enable independent and effective team delivery
- Experience with cloud-native systems, microservices, and distributed systems

Experience using AI-assisted development tools and establishing effective AI-enabled engineering practices across a team
Experience improving developer productivity through automation, better engineering workflows, and continuous process improvement
Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams, particularly across Japan and India
Experience managing production incidents and driving follow-up improvements to prevent recurrence
Japanese language proficiency and experience collaborating with Japan-based stakeholders; Leadership role with direct influence over technical direction and team-building within the company's Global Technology Department
Exposure to one of Asia-Pacific's largest consumer data platforms, serving 4,000+ global enterprise clients
Hybrid work model (2–3 days in office) at Embassy TechVillage, Bangalore — one of the city's premier tech campuses
Opportunity to shape engineering culture and practices during a pivotal merger and growth stage

📌 Engineering Manager - Hybrid (Bengaluru)
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