Senior Digital Engineering Manager

About ADM:

We are one of the world's largest nutrition companies and a global leader in human and animal nutrition. We unlock the power of nature to provide nourishing quality of life by transforming crops into ingredients and solutions for foods, beverages, supplements, livestock, aquaculture, and pets.

About ADM India Hub:

At ADM, we have long recognized the strength and potential of India's talent pool, which is why we have maintained a presence in the country for more than 25 years. Building on this foundation, we have now established ADM India Hub, our first GCC in India.

At ADM India Hub, we are hiring for IT and finance roles across diverse technology and business functions. We stand at the intersection of global expertise and local excellence, enabling us to drive innovation and support our larger purpose of unlocking the power of nature to enrich quality of life.

GT Senior Engineering Manager – India:

• The GT Senior Engineering Manager is responsible for leading and managing India-based engineering capabilities within Digital Technology & Engineering. This role provides leadership across Enterprise Applications, Full Stack Development, Integration, and Automation, ensuring the people, processes, and technical capabilities required to deliver scalable, secure, reliable, and business-aligned technology solutions.
• The successful candidate will combine strong engineering leadership with broad enterprise technology experience across ERP, CRM, industry-leading enterprise applications, custom/full-stack development, enterprise integration, and automation. The role will lead managers, employees, contractors, and vendor resources based in India while collaborating closely with GT leadership, Product Teams, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Release Management, and business stakeholders.
• The position is accountable for engineering leadership, organizational capability, technical standards, talent development, delivery effectiveness, and successful execution of enterprise technology outcomes across the India-based engineering organization.

Job Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage India-based engineering teams and managers across Enterprise Applications, Full Stack Development, Integration, and Automation.
• Establish and promote engineering standards, governance, architecture principles, development practices, and delivery methodologies across ADM and vendor resources.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight across enterprise application engineering, custom software development, integration, and automation solutions.
• Ensure delivery of scalable, secure, reliable, maintainable, and supportable solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead, coach, and develop India-based engineering managers and technical leaders through clear expectations, regular feedback, performance management, career development, succession planning, and technical mentoring.
• Build and maintain a high-performing engineering organization focused on delivery excellence, engineering quality, automation, simplification, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with GT leadership on workforce planning, talent development, capability building, succession planning, hiring, and organizational growth initiatives.
• Manage resource allocation, onboarding, skills development, capacity planning, and vendor performance to support business and technology priorities.
• Collaborate closely with Product Teams and Digital Technology & Engineering teams across onsite and offshore locations to ensure effective delivery alignment, knowledge sharing, and execution of enterprise initiatives.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Release Management, Product Teams, and business stakeholders to drive successful delivery of enterprise technology solutions.
• Drive adoption of Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, reusable engineering patterns, and modern software development lifecycle practices.
• Establish measurable engineering outcomes across delivery predictability, productivity, technical capability, automation, reliability, reuse, and technical debt reduction.
• Promote engineering standardization and reuse across technology platforms while reducing unnecessary customization and long-term technical complexity.

Must-Have Skills:

• 12+ years of IT / software engineering experience with demonstrated experience leading enterprise technology and engineering teams.
• 7+ years of formal people-management experience, including experience managing managers, senior technical leaders, employees, contractors, and vendor resources.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams across multiple technology domains rather than a single application or platform.
• Strong leadership capabilities including coaching, mentoring, performance management, career development, workforce planning, and succession planning.
• Experience managing global and geographically distributed teams, contractor resources, and strategic technology partners.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, executive presence, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Enterprise Applications & Architecture:

• Strong understanding of enterprise application landscapes including ERP, CRM, and other industry-leading enterprise platforms.
• Experience with major enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Coupa, IFS, Microsoft enterprise platforms, or similar technologies.
• Experience partnering with Enterprise Architecture and Product/functional teams to build technology solutions.
• Ability to balance business requirements, engineering standards, long-term sustainability, scalability, cost, and technical debt.

Full Stack & Digital Engineering:

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering across front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, cloud services, and application architecture.
• Experience leading teams delivering enterprise-scale custom and digital applications.
• Familiarity with modern development technologies and frameworks such as Java, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, React, Node.js, SQL, APIs, and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong understanding of coding standards, reusable components, development frameworks, secure coding practices, software design patterns, and application lifecycle management.
• Experience driving modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated deployment, cloud-native development, observability, and engineering automation.

Integration & Automation:

• Strong understanding of enterprise integration architecture, including API-led, event-driven, middleware, cloud, and hybrid integration patterns.
• Experience with integration technologies such as Azure Integration Services, SAP Integration Suite, MuleSoft, Boomi, Oracle SOA, or similar enterprise integration platforms.
• Experience connecting ERP, CRM, enterprise applications, digital platforms, and external systems through scalable and reusable integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of automation technologies including RPA, workflow automation, process automation, low-code/no-code platforms, and intelligent automation.
• Experience with automation platforms such as Microsoft Power Platform, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or similar technologies.
• Ability to identify opportunities where automation can improve productivity, simplify processes, reduce manual effort, and accelerate business outcomes.
• Experience evolving automation beyond task-level RPA toward broader process automation, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled automation.

Delivery & Operational Excellence:

• Experience driving end-to-end delivery of enterprise technology solutions across multiple business and technology initiatives.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery methodologies, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, release management, and application lifecycle management.
• Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards, architecture principles, development practices, governance, and operational readiness.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, capacity constraints, technical dependencies, and complex enterprise delivery environments.
• Experience improving delivery predictability, engineering productivity, solution quality, and time to market.
• Strong understanding of technical debt management, application modernization, engineering metrics, and continuous improvement.

People Leadership & Capability Development:

• Proven experience managing and developing engineering managers and technical leaders.
• Ability to build capability plans and identify skills required across Enterprise Applications, Full Stack, Integration, and Automation.
• Experience building high-performing engineering teams and developing technical career paths.
• Strong experience with workforce planning, hiring, talent development, succession planning, and performance management.
• Ability to build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, simplification, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Experience building or scaling engineering capabilities within an India delivery center, Global Capability Center, or similar organization is preferred.