Company: VotaryTech

Position: Program Manager – Global Engineering Programs

Business Focus: Embedded Software and Product Engineering Services

Domains: Automotive, Compute, IoT and Smart Devices

Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore

Experience: 15+years

Role Purpose

Lead large engineering programs for US customers, coordinating delivery across multiple locations, countries and time zones, with overall program responsibility for engineering teams of 100+ members.

The Program Manager will own integrated planning, execution, customer governance, resource coordination and financial discipline across multiple project teams. The role requires strong engineering understanding, global stakeholder management and the ability to translate customer commitments into predictable delivery outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead Global Program Execution

· Own end-to-end execution of engineering programs involving multiple projects, workstreams and delivery locations.

· Develop integrated program plans covering scope, milestones, resources, dependencies, budgets and customer acceptance criteria.

· Coordinate onsite, offshore and geographically distributed teams to deliver against a common execution plan.

· Identify critical-path dependencies and resolve cross-team issues before they affect customer commitments.

· Manage changes in scope, priorities and schedules with clear assessment of resource, cost and delivery impact.

2. Manage US Customer Relationships

· Act as the primary program interface for US customer stakeholders across engineering, product and program management.

· Lead program reviews, steering committee discussions, milestone reviews and escalations.

· Communicate delivery status, risks, decisions and recovery plans clearly and consistently.

· Establish effective collaboration across time zones, including agreed overlap windows, hand offs and escalation mechanisms.

· Build customer confidence through reliable execution, transparency and closure of commitments.

3. Coordinate Engineering Teams of 100+ Members

· Lead program execution through project managers, engineering managers, technical leads and cross-functional teams.

· Establish explicit workstream ownership, decision rights and accountability across locations.

· Align staffing and engineering capacity with program priorities and milestone requirements.

· Resolve resource conflicts and balance competing demands across projects.

· Plan succession, backup coverage and knowledge transfer for critical program roles.

· Maintain visibility into team capability, productivity and delivery readiness.

4. Drive Engineering Quality and Release Readiness

· Govern programs spanning embedded development, platform integration, validation, automation, sustenance and releases.





· Work with technical leaders to assess estimates, engineering risks and solution readiness.

· Track quality trends, defects, integration dependencies and release criteria.

· Ensure technical reviews, configuration management, documentation and customer acceptance activities are built into execution plans.

· Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action for recurring delivery or quality issues.

5. Own Program Financial and Resource Discipline

· Manage program budgets, effort forecasts, resource plans and delivery costs.

· Monitor actual effort against estimates and address overruns, rework and unplanned activities.

· Ensure scope changes are documented and routed for commercial approval where required.

· Support accurate billing through timely milestone acceptance, effort approvals and delivery documentation.

· Improve resource productivity and utilization while protecting quality and commitments.

· Identify additional customer needs and support account teams in shaping follow-on opportunities.

6. Establish Program Governance

· Maintain an integrated view of milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, actions and decisions.

· Run structured reviews across workstreams and locations with clear owners and closure dates.

· Provide leadership with accurate forecasts, early warnings and actionable recovery plans.

· Define escalation thresholds and ensure unresolved issues reach the appropriate decision-makers.

· Use program data to improve predictability, accountability and execution performance.

7. Apply AI to Program and Engineering Workflows

· Use AI to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis, dependency tracking and management decision support.

· Work with engineering leaders to enable practical AI adoption in development, testing, debugging and documentation.

· Measure improvements in turnaround time, productivity and quality.

· Validate AI-assisted outputs and comply with customer requirements for approved tools, confidentiality and security.

Mandatory Candidate Requirements

· Proven experience managing engineering programs for US customers, with delivery teams operating across multiple locations, countries and time zones.

· Demonstrated overall program responsibility for teams of 100+ engineering professionals across multiple projects or workstreams, managed through project managers and technical leads.





· Direct ownership of integrated program planning, customer governance, cross-location dependencies, risks and escalations.

· Relevant experience in embedded software, semiconductor platforms, automotive software, connected devices or device-level product engineering services.

· Experience managing onsite–offshore delivery models and working directly with US customer engineering and program leadership.

· Proven ability to recover delayed programs, resolve complex dependencies and deliver major milestones.

· Experience managing program budgets, effort forecasts, resource allocation and scope changes.

· Strong communication, negotiation and leadership skills in a matrix organization.

· Practical capability in applying AI to program management and delivery workflows.

Relevant Technical Exposure

Experience should include one or more of the following areas:

· Embedded C/C++, firmware, BSPs and device drivers.

· Linux, Android/AOSP or embedded operating systems.

· Chipset and device software development and integration.

· Automotive embedded software programs.

· Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, IoT and connected-device platforms.

· System validation, test automation, platform sustenance and release management.

Education and Preferred Credentials

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.

· PMP, PgMP or relevant Agile certification is desirable.

· Certifications should be supported by demonstrated ownership of large engineering programs.

Application Relevance

This position requires substantial engineering program ownership. Experience limited to project coordination, PMO reporting, Scrum facilitation, recruitment operations or enterprise application delivery without relevant embedded/product engineering experience will not meet the requirements.

Applicants should clearly state:

· US customer programs managed and their engineering scope.

· Countries and delivery locations coordinated.

· Total program team size, distinguishing direct reports from overall program responsibility.

· Number of concurrent projects or workstreams managed.

· Budget, delivery and customer governance responsibilities.

· Major outcomes achieved, including program recovery, quality or productivity improvements.

Success Measures

· Predictability of program milestones and customer acceptance.

· Effective coordination across locations and workstreams.

· Delivery quality and release readiness.

· Budget and effort adherence.

· Resource productivity and continuity.

· Timely resolution of risks, dependencies and escalations.

· Customer satisfaction and confidence in program execution.

· Measurable improvements through AI adoption.

📌 Program Manager – Global Engineering Programs (Hyderabad)
🏢 Votary Softech Solutions
📍 Hyderabad