Senior Manager

Job Description

As a Senior Manager, you will be part of Ecosystem and Operational Risk team and will provide hands-on technical leadership to the team to build our applications in an agile development environment by hiring and building a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.  This position is based in Bangalore.

The Work itself:

• Provide hands on technical leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers (Full time employees and contractors)
• Be part of the development team with hands on coding skills and excellent collaboration skills.
• Deliver the product with moderately complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.
• Actively participate in Solution design, architecture and development of key initiatives. Ensure developed solutions adhere to established architectural best patterns and target state.
• Foster the culture of Engineering Excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.), CI/CD, Automation and Shift-Left.
• Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Invest in the career development of direct reports.
• Create an engineering culture of creativity and innovation.
• Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.
• Provide technical leadership for quality assurance and test engineering activities – manual and automation
• Lead scrum ceremonies and program management activities. Play a crucial role in interfacing with business stakeholders to define solutions and requirements, prioritize, and drive execution using agile methodologie

Essential Functions:

• Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across departments.
• Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum teams

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree or with an Advanced degree.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, REST is a must.
• 2-3 years' experience in hiring & managing high performing team of Developer & DevOps engineers and managing technical deliveries.
• Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication / articulation and reporting skills.
• Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, leading scrum ceremonies and software development lifecycle principles.
• Experience in architecture and operations of highly available and scalable transactional systems.
• Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with diverse teams and stakeholders