Urgent Opening for Senior Technical Manager_Bangalore

About the Role

Hi Candidate, We have an urgent opening for Senior Technical Manager-JD-Primary objective Improve offshore engineering quality, technical capability and productivity Technology focus Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems and cloud-native delivery Domain Banking and financial services Role Purpose Provide senior, hands-on technical leadership to the Bengaluru-based build and engineering teams supporting a banking customer. The role will strengthen engineering depth, mentor technical leaders and developers, institutionalize quality practices, and improve predictable delivery and productivity across offshore squads.

Responsibilities

• Primary objective
• Improve offshore engineering quality, technical capability and productivity
• Technology focus
• Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems and cloud-native delivery
• Domain
• Banking and financial services
• Role Purpose
• Provide senior, hands-on technical leadership to the Bengaluru-based build and engineering teams supporting a banking customer.
• The role will strengthen engineering depth, mentor technical leaders and developers, institutionalize quality practices, and improve predictable delivery and productivity across offshore squads.
• Key Responsibilities
• Act as the senior offshore engineering authority for Java and microservices delivery across multiple squads.
• Remain close to the code and solution design by reviewing critical designs, APIs, code changes, integration approaches and non-functional requirements.
• Coach technical leads and engineers through structured mentoring, design clinics, code reviews, paired problem-solving and reusable engineering guidance.
• Define and enforce engineering standards for clean code, design patterns, secure coding, API design, exception handling, observability and documentation.
• Embed shift-left quality practices, including test-driven development, automated unit and component testing, API contract testing, static code analysis and early security checks.
• Establish consistent quality gates and engineering exit criteria across development, CI/CD, system integration and release readiness.
• Drive root-cause analysis for escaped defects, recurring incidents, rework and performance issues; ensure preventive actions are adopted across squads.
• Improve productivity through reusable frameworks, accelerators, automation, development standards and reduction of manual or repetitive engineering work.
• Assess team capability, identify skill gaps, create targeted learning plans and build succession for technical lead and architect roles.
• Partner with onsite solution architects, customer technology stakeholders, delivery managers, product owners, QA and DevOps teams to resolve technical dependencies early.
• Provide transparent reporting on engineering health, quality trends, capability progress, technical risks and improvement actions.
• Promote responsible use of GenAI-based engineering assistants where approved, with appropriate controls for security, confidentiality, code quality and human review.
• Banking and Delivery Experience
• Experience delivering technology solutions for banks or regulated financial-services organizations.
• Understanding of transaction-intensive, highly available systems and the controls expected in regulated environments.
• Experience leading engineering across geographically distributed onsite and offshore teams and multiple concurrent squads.
• Ability to balance engineering rigor with delivery commitments, customer priorities and operational risk.
• Leadership and Capability Expectations
• Lead through technical credibility, coaching and constructive challenge rather than only through project administration.
• Build a culture of ownership in which engineers prevent defects, raise risks early and continuously improve their craft.
• Create communities of practice for Java, microservices, APIs, testing and engineering excellence.
• Develop technical leads who can independently govern design quality and mentor their squads.
• Communicate clearly with senior customer stakeholders and translate complex technical issues into decisions, risks and actions.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving, influencing, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Success Measures
• Success measures should be baselined after joining and agreed with delivery and customer stakeholders.
• Indicative measures include:
• Reduction in defect leakage, escaped defects, repeat defects and defect-related rework.
• Improvement in automated test coverage, code-quality compliance and adherence to engineering gates.
• Improvement in delivery predictability, cycle time and engineering throughput without compromising quality.
• Reduction in technical debt and recurring production issues within the agreed scope.
• Progress in team skill proficiency, technical-lead autonomy and completion of targeted capability plans.
• Adoption and measurable reuse of engineering standards, accelerators and automation across squads.
• Candidate Profile Summary
• The ideal candidate is a engineering leader who combines deep Java and microservices expertise with a strong coaching mindset.
• The person should be comfortable moving between architecture discussions, code and design reviews, quality-governance forums and capability-building sessions, with a clear focus on improving the quality and productivity of offshore banking engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 12-18 years of software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on Java and microservices expertise.
• At least 4 years in a senior technical leadership role guiding multiple teams or squads.
• Experience in a product engineering, application development or large-scale modernization environment.

Required Skills

• Required Technical Expertise
• Strong hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, Java 11 or later, Spring, Spring Boot and production-grade microservices.
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, API contracts, service decomposition, domain-driven design, synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience with messaging and event-driven technologies such as Kafka, MQ or JMS