Engineering Manager

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and execute complex technical projects for large-scale client accounts. This role requires a blend of strong technical leadership, hands-on engineering capabilities, and strategic project oversight. You will work closely with cross-functional teams-including development, QA, DevOps, and architecture leads-to design and deliver robust, scalable, and secure software solutions. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in backend and cloud technologies, strong stakeholder management skills, and a track record of driving engineering excellence across distributed teams in fast-paced environments. This role also involves contributing to pre-sales efforts, internal capability building, and enforcing best practices across project lifecycles.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of large, technically complex projects by designing, validating, and optimizing technical architectures across diverse tech stacks.
• Translate functional requirements into technical solutions for development teams, assisting with implementation and troubleshooting while acting as the project owner.
• Identify delivery risks, technical bottlenecks, or resource constraints early and implement mitigation strategies in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Track and report on engineering KPIs such as sprint velocity, defect leakage, and deployment frequency to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Work with Project Managers focusing on PoC, Prototyping and Technical Solution or solely manage the overall project, as needed.
• Maintain a hands-on approach to technology, with the ability to perform code analysis, reviews, audits, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices and enforce secure coding standards across project SDLC.
• Collaborate with QA team to define test cases and review/validate test scripts, test results ensuring comprehensive functional and non-functional testing.
• Advocate for process improvements, technical proof of concepts (PoCs), and the reduction of technical debt.
• Nurture and grow client accounts by ensuring optimised and robust solution delivery with highest quality standards.
• Serve as a liaison between technical and business stakeholders facilitating clear communication and alignment.
• Provide technical support for pre-sales initiatives and client interactions.
• Help define and implement architectural standards, guidelines, principles, guardrails, and governance practices working with different Tech Stack Leads to drive consistency and quality across projects.
• Contribute to internal initiatives such as technical training, building accelerators, managing technical audits, and creating reusable components.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical experience in web/cloud/mobile application development with a broad range of backend technologies and in-depth expertise in at least one backend language (e.g. Node.js, Python, .NET, PHP, etc.) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• 2+ years of experience in engineering team management, technical project management, or large multi-team customer account management.
• Strong knowledge of system design principles including security, scalability, caching, availability, fault tolerance, performance optimization, observability (logging, alerting and monitoring) and maintainability.
• Hands-on expertise in at least one backend tech stack, with the ability to conduct code reviews, audits, and deep troubleshooting.
• Proven experience in designing and delivering robust, secure, and highly optimized production-grade software systems at scale.
• In-depth, hands-on understanding of cloud services-compute, storage, networking, security-and cloud-native solution design on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines including tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Strong interpersonal skills and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; capable of mentoring, stakeholder presentation, and influencing technical teams and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally with technical and non-technical, internal and external teams to ensure end-to-end delivery.
• Solution-oriented mindset with the ability to drive incremental technical execution in the face of ambiguity and constraints.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies with experience leading Agile teams, ceremonies, and sprint planning.
• Understanding of architectural documentation and artifacts such as HLD, LLD, architecture diagrams, entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), process flows, and sequence diagrams.
• Awareness of compliance, data privacy, and regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2.
• Working knowledge of frontend technologies (e.g., React, Angular) and how they integrate with backend and cloud components.
• Strong adaptability and a continuous learning mindset in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Preferred Skills

• Certifications in cloud architecture (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent) are a plus.
• Exposure in diverse range of projects including cutting edge technologies, such as Data Engineering, AI or ML.
• Knowledge of various testing tools and frameworks, e.g. JMeter, LoadRunner or equivalent.
• Familiarity with Mobile Testing frameworks, e.g. Appium, Calabash or equivalent.
• Experience with SaaS platforms or multi-tenant architecture is a strong plus.

Skills

Technical Project Management, Engineering Management, Application Development, Team Building, Training and Development, System Design, Solution Architecture, Azure, AWS, Python/Node.js/.NET/PHP/MEAN , DevOps, CICD, Cloud-Native Design, Microservices, Event Driven and Serverless Architecture