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