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Posted 16 June, 2026

Manager, Engineering

NielsenIQ
Chennai, TN, IN Full Time
Reference: 14c9d8becc6e1c1f

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Engineering Manager to architect, build, deploy and optimize enterprise-grade platforms.


  • Shapes best practices, coding standards, and software architecture at an organizational level
  • Lead solutions that improve API services quality, performance, and reliability across the organization
  • Optimize computing cost, performance using the appropriate software engineering principles
  • Work closely PL, Arch, PMO, Interfacing teams to productionalize features.
  • Enforce DevSecOps practices - Secret, SAST, DAST
  • Progressive coverage in unit testing.
  • Mentor junior engineers, drive technical decision-making
  • Lead design reviews, code reviews, and platform APIs roadmap discussions
  • Leads without authority, influencing through expertise, logical reasoning, and collaboration.
  • Adopt and improve efficiency gain by Adopting AI tools in SDLC
  • Knowledge of technology standards and ability to convey key aspects to team members.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Uses AI to design automated reliability improvements, incident simulations, and scaling patterns.
  • Makes technical decisions with a clear understanding of business impact, cost-efficiency, and long-term sustainability.


Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering esply building API Services layer integrating with upstream and downstream
  • Defined and evolved the technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems
  • Balanced short-term delivery needs with long-term scalability and maintainability
  • Should have experience in design, build, deploy, refactor enterprise grade applications
  • Deep expertise in Java, Springboot, Python
  • Strong expertise Database (rdbms, NoSQL)
  • Hands on in tools for Caching, Queuing
  • Experience in Modern cloud ecosystems
  • Strong expertise in DevSecOps pipeline, quality gates, tools(code coverage, testing, sast, dast)
  • Resolved cross-team challenges by fostering open and constructive conversations

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