Looking for an Engineering manager for our supply chain execution product suite
Engineering Manager's responsibilities include driving the product development team towards a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product, detecting and mitigating various risks and challenges throughout the development, ensuring that the software is developed with all non-functional requirements (such as security, performance, documentation, scalability and reliability) and representing the product as well as roadmap within the company and to the customers.
Plays a crucial role in facilitating the Scrum process within an Agile framework. He/She should facilitate all scrum ceremonies and facilitate communication between the team, the Product Owner, and other stakeholders. This includes helping to ensure that requirements are clear and that the team's progress is communicated transparently to the organization.
The Engineering manager's role plays an important part in our company's product development process. Our ideal engineering manager assures on-time delivery of both functional and non-functional requirements with best quality, before product launches to ensure that the software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end leadership on software development, we'd like to meet you.
The team currently comprises of 20+ global associates across US and India (COE) and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team
Leading a software development and program management of a project through a team of developers, architects and testers, ensuring that the software addresses all functional and non-functional requirements
Manage resource allocation across projects to optimize efficiency and meet deadlines.
Must guide the team in adopting Agile practices and to help team members grow in their roles.
Demonstrate expertise in relevant technologies, platforms, products, architecture and tools
Explore, analyse and recommend new tools and technologies for product development, along with an enterprise architect
Identify the reusable components and ensure the usage of the same through design
Plan release delivery schedule, monitor progress, and report status to stakeholders. Facilitate cross-team communication on reporting progress and resolving impediments. Identify risks, define mitigation plans and communicate the plans in a timely manner.
Work with senior product manager and engineering leaders to estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate product development activities, considering resources and skills
Coordinate availability of development environments and tools
Ensure supporting project documentation is in order and submitted in a timely manner
Ensure development processes and quality standards are adhered.
Provide guidance, feedback, coaching, and developmental experiences to the team.
Provide feedback to team on career path and guides them in continuous development and learning. Conduct appraisals, provide feedback, and handle work allocations for direct reports, and approve the same for indirect reports.
Recommend and improve automation frameworks and help team design, develop and execute automation scripts using right tools
Apply domain concepts into the solution and product area
What We Are Looking For
BTech/BS/MTech/MS degree in Engineering or a related subject
Proven work experience in software development as a lead and manager
Experience of 10-12 years in software industry
Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, automation, tools and processes
Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum based product development organization
Experience in providing clear and concise status of a product development project
Strong programming experience and background in Enterprise Java
Demonstrable experience with designing, deploying and maintaining enterprise cloud solutions (preferably Azure)
Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture
Experience with implementation of event driven architecture using Kafka or similar technologies
Hands-on development skills along with architecture and design experience
Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in cloud native architecture, distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and scalability, performance, disaster recovery and high availability
Experience with DevOps, API Management including identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation
Good understanding of secure architectures and configurations
