Senior Engineering Manager (Cloud Native)

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead delivery execution across our Ascend Fraud and PID (Product Identity & Data) Acceleration workstreams based in Hyderabad, India.

This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering leadership role that demands deep technical fluency, proven people-management capability, and the ability to personally contribute to architecture and code when required.

The ideal candidate is someone who operates at the intersection of engineering and leadership - equally comfortable reviewing a pull request, troubleshooting a production incident, mentoring engineers, and presenting delivery status to senior stakeholders.

You will manage 2 engineering teams and be directly accountable for execution quality, on-time delivery, platform reliability, and team growth across 2 strategically significant programmes.

Role and Responsibilities

You will be #LI-hybrid based in Hyderabad and reporting to Director Engineering

Delivery Execution & Accountability: You will Own end-to-end delivery across Ascend Fraud and PID Acceleration workstreams, ensuring predictable outcomes, releases, and alignment to committed roadmaps and business priorities. Personally unblock critical-path items, make technical trade-off decisions, and maintain delivery cadence.

Hands-On Technical Leadership: Remain deeply engaged in technical decisions - participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and code reviews. Evaluate technical approaches, challenge assumptions, and drive sound engineering choices across the team. This is not a purely managerial role technical credibility and active contribution are essential.

Engineering Team Leadership & Talent Development: Lead and scale engineering teams, setting clear expectations for quality. Build strong engineering leadership pipelines, develop succession plans, coach emerging leaders, and sustain high talent retention in a competitive market.

Engineering Excellence & Standards: Drive engineering excellence by enforcing secure coding practices, reliability standards, test automation coverage, and operational readiness aligned to fraud, identity, and regulatory requirements. Champion the adoption of new ways of working including Generative AI to accelerate developer productivity and speed of delivery.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Architecture, and Platform teams to translate strategy into executable plans, manage dependencies, and resolve cross-workstream risks early. Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for India-based delivery across these programmes.

Platform Modernisation & Acceleration: Ensure platform modernisation and acceleration goals are met, including migration, performance, resiliency, and reuse initiatives supporting Ascend and PID convergence. Drive cloud-native adoption and ensure operational readiness for all releases.

Execution Visibility & Stakeholder Communication: Provide transparent execution visibility through metrics, risks, and trade-offs. Proactively escalate issues and recommend corrective actions to protect delivery timelines and client outcomes .

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related field advanced degree (M.Tech, MS, MBA)
• Experience depth - 12+ years in software engineering with hands-on development, including 5+ years managing teams of 15+ across concurrent workstreams
• Expertise in Cloud & platform architecture.
• Expertise in cloud-native (AWS/Azure/GCP), microservices, CI/CD, Kubernetes/Docker, observability - with authority to make technical decisions and contribute to code
• Domain experience - Delivery in regulated, risk-sensitive domains (fraud, identity, financial services, payments) with platform-level quality, security, and compliance ownership
• Hands-on coding proficiency - Proficiency in enterprise languages/frameworks (Java, Python, Scala, Spark, Kafka) with ability to review production code, lead architecture discussions, and troubleshoot
• Certifications (advantageous) - Cloud certifications (AWS SA, Azure DevOps), Agile (SAFe, CSM, PMI-ACP), or security (CISSP, CISM) considered a strong plus
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex, client-facing platforms in domains such as fraud detection, identity verification, risk management, or financial services technology.
• Experience with large-scale platform modernisation, migration programmes, and driving adoption of cloud-native architectures in enterprise environments.
• We strongly prefer prior experience in a product-oriented technology company or enterprise SaaS environment.

Additional Information

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Benefits

Experian care for employee's work life balance, health, safety and wellbeing. In support of this endeavor, we offer best-in-class family well-being benefits, enhanced medical benefits and paid time off.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

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