Job Description

Hiring Manager: Srinivasa Munivenkatappa

Talent Acquisition Advisor: Meherunnesa Khatun

Job Code Level: DSM1

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About the opportunity

The Engineering Manager is responsible for end-to-end software development, maintenance of released products, ownership for the products / features owned by his/her teams. He / she is expected to help evolve and define the product features working with various product stake holders, in the area of enterprise software development and is abreast with related technologies. Responsible for managing and coordinating resources and processes to make quality& timely deliveries. Manager is responsible for product release, patches, hot fix releases, customer interaction and timely, quality delivery.



You are great at:

Provides direct and ongoing leadership for a team of individual contributors designing and developing new products, enhancements and updates and coordinating projects for end-user applications software running on local, networked, and Internet-based platforms



• Works with internal customers like product management& other engineering functions to cater to the product requirements.
• Helps the teams to prepare the detailed work plan for the given release cycle, guides the team on estimation, planning and execution of the release content.
• Responsible for developing and releasing the defined work content as per the committed plan with the expected quality. Works with the stakeholders to resolve the dependencies& impediments and makes the necessary course corrections to keep the team on track on their commitments.
• Influences the engineers to conform to the defined engineering practices& standards through active involvement and hands-on tracking. Measures the quality of the deliverable using the defined quality metrics and addresses the issues that impact the quality of the deliverable from the engineers.
• Actively involves in the technical discussions in the teams and adds value to the discussion with his / her experience.
• Helps team members to set their objectives and prepare their competency improvement plan. Guides the team members by providing the appropriate opportunities to achieve their objectives and improve competencies to help them grow in their career.
• Closely observes the performance of the engineers on both the deliverable and competencies. Provides the appropriate feedback (both the appreciations& focus areas) in a timely manner as part of the performance appraisal process.
• Hiring and building team


People manager or lead experience - already leading a team today, or a technical lead or scrum master role.



• Leader by nature - sees the success of his people as his success
• Customer oriented approach - ability to work with customer and solve their issues. Ability to demo products and lead a discussion with customers. Ability to prioritize and fix customer issues based on the urgency, business criticality in the situation like high volume of customer issues reported.
• Experience with analytics products or products dealing with historical data is a desired trait
• Experience in ITOM domain is added advantage


What it takes:

• Strong communication skills to oversee personnel and foster collaboration with other organizational departments.
• Outstanding technological orientation - ability to learn, analyze and troubleshoot various technologies.
• Strong application architecture understanding.
• Strong communication skills to oversee personnel and foster collaboration with other organizational departments. Fluent in oral and written communication.
• Successfully manage the daily challenges of a technical environment.
• Must have experience working in an agile development environment, where the measure of success is the swift and frequent delivery of useful software.
• Owner, responsible and result driven.


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