Job Overview The Senior Software Development Manager will lead the engineering strategy and execution for the digital technology portfolio, with accountability for delivery excellence, platform resilience, engineering productivity and technology modernisation. The role will translate business priorities into a scalable technology roadmap, strengthen engineering standards and capabilities, and ensure the delivery of secure, reliable and cost-effective technology solutions across internal teams and strategic partners.

Enterprise Engineering Strategy & Leadership

- Own the engineering and hosting strategy, aligned with business priorities, security, scalability and customer commitments.
- Lead engineering teams and managers, strengthening capability, performance and succession across critical roles.
- Define the operating model, workforce strategy and sourcing mix required to deliver at scale.
- Drive architecture governance, cloud adoption and legacy modernisation to improve resilience, scalability and cost efficiency.

AI-Enabled Engineering & Innovation

- Lead the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering and agentic workflows across development, testing, release and operations.
- Establish AI governance covering security, data protection, IP, human oversight and traceability.
- Drive measurable improvements in engineering productivity and quality through AI, automation and reusable capabilities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies through structured pilots and value-led scale decisions.

Portfolio Delivery, Service & Risk Governance

- Own portfolio-level delivery, release, quality and operational governance.
- Establish KPIs across delivery predictability, availability, quality, recovery, security, productivity and technical debt.
- Ensure strong service resilience, incident management,



disaster recovery and continuous improvement.
- Provide leadership visibility on key technology risks, dependencies and corrective actions, ensuring compliance with security, privacy and audit requirements.

Commercial, Financial & Vendor Management

- Own engineering budgets, investment planning and technology cost optimisation.
- Govern strategic partners and vendors against delivery, capability, SLA and commercial outcomes.
- Lead make-buy-partner and sourcing decisions, balancing capability, cost and long-term ownership.

Stakeholder & Product Partnership

- Partner with Product, Operations, Security, Architecture and Commercial teams to translate business priorities into technology outcomes.
- Drive alignment on critical scope, risk, cost, quality and timeline trade-offs.
- Represent Engineering across senior leadership, customer, audit and governance forums.

Team Management & Succession Planning

- Team Management & Succession Planning
- Ensure the professional development of the team and provide necessary training.
- Create and maintain a robust talent pipeline to ensure succession planning (1:2 ratio).

Sustainability

- Oversee corporate governance within the assigned region, ensuring alignment with organizational principles, policies, and regulations.
- Promote judicious use of natural resources and adhere to the organization's environment, health, and safety policies, objectives, and guidelines.




- Drive the organization's sustainability initiatives, working towards achieving established targets.

Anti Bribery Management Systems (ABMS)

- Follow the ABMS roles and responsibilities details as prescribed on the ABMS manual.

a. Understanding of ethical standards and the importance of integrity in business practices. b. Ability to identify and evaluate risks related to bribery in various business contexts. For more details, follow the ABMS manual

Education

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent qualified certification.
- Master's degree in technology, business or management preferred.

Experience

- 15+ years in software engineering/digital technology, including 5+ years in engineering leadership.
- Enterprise platform ownership across engineering, cloud, DevSecOps, operations and modernization.
- Experience managing budgets, strategic vendors, complex portfolios and senior stakeholders.
- Expertise in modern architecture, APIs, data, cloud and Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Rust, Java or .NET.
- Experience with LLMs, AI agents and AI-enabled workflows, with security and human oversight.
- Strong expertise in Agile, CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE, architecture governance and secure SDLC.

Additional responsibilities

- Drive predictable delivery against portfolio commitments and investment plans.
- Strengthen platform availability, recovery, security and customer experience.
- Reduce technical debt and cost through modernization, automation and cloud optimization.
- Improve engineering productivity and quality through responsible AI and standardized practices.
- Build leadership capability, critical-skill coverage and retention of high-performing talent.

📌 Senior Software Engineering Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 VFS Global
📍 Mumbai