Senior Engineering Manager
About this role
Responsibilities & Key Deliverables
- Own and manage the engineering delivery of digital products, customer-facing applications, and enterprise technology platforms.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, technical leads, and architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and accountability.
- Drive Agile delivery practices across engineering teams and ensure effective sprint planning, execution, release management, and continuous improvement.
- Build and develop high-performing engineering teams through coaching, mentoring, and structured career development initiatives.
- Manage vendor and partner relationships, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and technology standards.
- Establish engineering performance dashboards and track key delivery metrics, quality metrics, productivity indicators, system reliability, and customer experience measures to drive data-driven decision making.
- Manage complexity with a logical, analytical, and outcome-oriented approach.
- Build succession plans and strengthen technology capabilities within the engineering organization.
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Communication & Collaboration
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Partner with product, business, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to deliver business-aligned technology solutions.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless integration of digital products and technologies.
- Provide leadership updates on engineering initiatives, delivery health, technology risks, team performance, and business outcomes.
- Drive alignment between technology strategy and business objectives.
Budget Management & Cost Control
- Develop and manage engineering budgets, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Monitor and optimize technology, cloud infrastructure, and platform costs while maintaining service quality and operational excellence.
- Identify opportunities for productivity improvements and efficient resource utilization.
- Ensure engineering initiatives are delivered within approved budgets and timelines.
- Support technology investment planning and cost optimization initiatives.
Experience
12-15 years
Industry Preferred
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Relevant certifications in AWS, Cloud Architecture, Application Security, Agile Delivery, or Enterprise Architecture will be an added advantage.
- 10-15 years of experience in software engineering, application development, and technology leadership roles.
- Proven experience leading and managing teams of software engineers, technical leads, architects, and engineering managers.
- Strong hands-on experience in web and mobile application development across the full software development lifecycle.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-grade digital platforms, customer-facing applications, and API-driven solutions
General Requirements
- Provide technical leadership across web, mobile, API, and cloud-native application ecosystems.
- Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, code quality initiatives, and engineering best practices.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
- Possess strong hands-on experience in enterprise-scale application development using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, React, Angular, Node.js, Python, Flutter, React Native, Android, iOS, and modern API frameworks.
- Possess strong expertise in AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture, including scalability, resilience, security, observability, and cost optimization.
- Drive adoption of cloud engineering best practices leveraging AWS services for compute, storage, networking, containers, serverless computing, monitoring, and security.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, microservices, containerization, and cloud technologies.
- Ensure applications are designed and developed with security, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and performance as key principles.
- Define engineering standards, coding guidelines, architecture principles, and governance frameworks across delivery teams.
- Define and monitor key engineering and operational metrics including application availability, performance, release frequency, deployment success rate, defect leakage, incident trends, and service reliability.
- Ensure effective implementation of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices across all applications and platforms.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, caste, race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender identity, nationality, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, educational background, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy or childbirth, veteran status, citizenship status, ancestry, financial status, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law.
We actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and bring their unique perspectives to our teams. We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive experience for all applicants.
Together, we rise by embracing differences and building a future that reflects the communities we serve.
Company at a glance
A USD 19.4 billion multinational group based in Mumbai, India, Mahindra provides employment opportunities to over 256,000 people across 100 countries. Mahindra operates in the key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in tractors, utility vehicles, information technology, financial services and vacation ownership. In addition, Mahindra enjoys a strong presence in the agribusiness, aerospace, components, consulting services, defence, energy, industrial equipment, logistics, real estate, retail, steel, commercial vehicles and two wheeler industries. The Automotive and Farm Equipment Business is the largest contributor of the Mahindra Group’s revenue. With 30,000+ full time employees spread across 20 locations, Mahindra has a strong presence in India. Further it propels an entire manufacturing ecosystem of 1,200 suppliers and 3,500 dealers, thereby creating direct and indirect employment for over 200,000 individuals.
Our Farm Equipment business is the number 1 tractor company in the world by volume. In addition to our focus on maintaining a leading position in the core tractor mechanization business, we strive to deliver on our aspiration of “Farm Tech Prosperity” thus enabling our customers and our communities to RISE.
Our Automotive business is a full-range mobility player with a presence in almost every segment of the automobile industry. Our product portfolio ranges from world class SUVs, premium luxury UVs, sedans, pick-ups, light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles to three-wheelers. All these cater to a diverse customer base spanning across rural and semi-urban customers. Leveraging our growing dominance, domestic & international market penetration and recent strategic acquisitions, we aim to provide world class exeperience to our customers and team members.
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