Role Purpose

Lead a high-performing engineering organisation responsible for delivering Sage X3 outcomes while maintaining quality, customer continuity and sustainable delivery capability.

Sage X3 is Sage's enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform. This role leads teams supporting the continued evolution of the platform through modern engineering practices, cloud technologies and scalable delivery models.

Essential Skills & Experience

- Experience leading software engineering teams delivering commercial, cloud or ERP products.
- Strong technical fluency across modern engineering disciplines, including cloud platforms, APIs, automation, CI/CD and SaaS delivery.
- Experience with containerisation and Kubernetes.
- Ability to lead distributed teams and manage delivery, dependencies, hiring, performance and organisational priorities.
- Strong understanding of engineering metrics, quality, reliability and operational excellence.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and decision-making skills.
- Ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term engineering capability and platform goals.

Preferred Skills & Experience

- Exposure to Sage X3 or other ERP platforms, with familiarity with enterprise business processes, customisation frameworks and platform modernisation initiatives.
- Experience scaling engineering capability within a global product organisation.
- Knowledge of L4G/4GL, Progress 4GL, Web Services, data migration or batch processing.
- Experience working within cloud platform, migration, partner ecosystem or regulated SaaS environments.
- Formal people leadership qualification, Agile coaching background or equivalent leadership experience.

Qualifications





- Degree, diploma or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
- Equivalent practical experience will be considered.

Key Responsibilities Engineering Leadership

- Lead one or more multidisciplinary engineering squads delivering Sage X3 outcomes.
- Create the conditions for engineers, automation specialists, product teams and architects to deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Build and develop engineering capability through coaching, performance management, hiring and succession planning.
- Drive delivery performance, quality, operational stability and customer continuity.

Delivery & Execution
- Own team delivery commitments, capacity planning, prioritisation and dependency management.
- Ensure engineering practices support secure, reliable and maintainable software delivery.
- Support adoption of contemporary engineering approaches, including cloud-native delivery, automation, observability and platform engineering practices.
- Remove obstacles and enable teams to deliver outcomes efficiently and sustainably.

Stakeholder & Operational Leadership
- Work closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Cloud Operations and Support teams.
- Communicate progress, risks, dependencies and delivery outcomes to stakeholders.
- Enable effective collaboration across teams located in India, Europe and North America.

Decision Ownership
- Team structure, staffing and capability development.
- Delivery planning, prioritisation and execution within agreed objectives.
- Engineering quality, operational readiness and risk management.
- Escalation and resolution of significant delivery, people or technical issues.

📌 Engineering Manager (Bangalore East)
🏢 Sage
📍 Bangalore East