Engineering Manager - Bengaluru/Bangalore
- SMC Squared
- 12 - 18 years
- Bengaluru
- 6 days ago
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Job Description
Engineering Manager / Development ManagerPosition Overview
Engineering Manager, IT Development is responsible for managing and developing leaders of people and potentially individual contributors. This position ensures business objectives aligning to Information Technology strategy and policy are accomplished through established, implemented and executed plans & tactics. The positions focus is on coaching and developing staff, communicating organization objectives and expectations, and monitoring the progress of projects and initiatives, taking appropriate action when needed.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Oversight
Technical owner of the product; closely work with product manager and solution architects and understand the best-suited product design/architecture
Responsible for conducting regular design and code reviews and share constructive feedback with team members.
Participate as required in requirements gathering workshop and release planning
Helps in establishing short and long-term product objectives, plans and ensures team members meet them.
Work closely and guide product stakeholders on technical feasibility, , timelines while building product roadmaps and related tasks.
Identify and build necessary technical capabilities within the team thru upskilling using training and workshops.
Be sensitive and empathetic about product end users, market landscape, competition and digital goals and objectives.Product Development Management
Develop realistic delivery schedules considering the teams capability, bandwidth, and stakeholder objectives, and ensure deliveries are in agreed timelines and budgets.
Monitor and report progress to Product Manager, Sr IT Manager / Engineering Director, and product stakeholders with periodic catch ups. Ability to identify and raise people and timeline risks early on and proposed suitable mitigation plans.
Clearly understands product goals, objectives, milestones, and responsible for communicating and setting expectations with the development team and product stakeholders.
Helps build and manage multi-discipline teams to develop, build and test products
Ensure members are always fully compliant with defined processes and tools prevalent within the team.
Evaluate reports, decisions, and results of department in relation to established goals. Recommend new approaches for continual improvements in efficiency and service of the department.
Build key partnerships within the organization to ensure understanding of broad business strategy and impact to IT Development, Change & Release, Security, Solution Architect, department and vice versa
People Management
Hands-on experience in managing software product teams working closely with Global IT Managers, covering all facets of people management/employee life cycle from hire to retire including forecasting, recruitment, onboarding, appraisals, learning and development, career progression and off-boarding.
Appraises team members' performances and offer continuous, realistic, and constructive feedback to team members and ensure team members always feel supported.
Seek support, when necessary, from Global IT Managers to counsel team members periodically, and ensure they are appreciated and provided feedback on-time.
Periodically conduct learning needs identification exercises and work with necessary teams to seek support on upskilling and needed technical training, and ensure they are in-line with the teams objectives and budgets.
Ensure all team members are contributing to the best of their abilities within the guidelines prescribed
Create a working environment where team members feel comfortable, confident and develop a free to speak culture.Other typical tasks may also include...
- May have to travel domestically and internationally if there is a need.
- May have to lead or participate on cross-functional committees or task forces.
- May have to take up responsibility of a Product Owner for area of responsibility.
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors/masters degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
12 - 15 years of software product development, with at least 5 years in Software Engineering Management building large scale products.
Proven experience in managing a team of at least 12+ cross-functional resources
Passionate about product development, and significant expertise in .NET WebAPI, .Net Core, C#, ReactJS, Node JS, MongoDB, SQL Server etc.
Hands-on experience in development / coding in relevant technologies
Thorough understanding of managing people processes, culture and values in a large application development set-up
Proactive and highly organized, with strong time management and planning skills
Credible, confident, and articulate, with excellent communication, presentation skills and interpersonal skills, and deliver ideas clearly and concisely to internal and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
Strong Leadership, professional attitude, highly self-motivated and driven and leading by example
Thorough understanding of program management techniques and methods, especially Agile software delivery methodologies (SCRUM, KANBAN, etc.) and experience in other software development models and life cycle
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area: IT Services & Consulting
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Engineering Manager
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: SMC SquaredLocation(s): Bengaluru
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