Engineering Programme Manager

Rubiscape; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubiscape in Pune seeks an Engineering Programme Manager to own the engineering roadmap across six studios, from PI Planning to release governance and post-launch reviews. You will align with the CTO, studio leads, and customer success teams to deliver rapid, repeatable first production use cases.

Required: 7+ years in enterprise software engineering programme management, SAFe/LeSS experience, SPC or RTE certification, Jira and Azure DevOps expertise, and strong executive communication with

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering programme management experience in enterprise software.
• 3+ years in an agile delivery environment (SAFe or LeSS).
• SAFe SPC or RTE certification demonstrates PI Planning, ART execution mastery.
• Expert in Jira and Azure DevOps for planning, dashboards, and reporting.
• Experience managing programmes with multiple concurrent teams and enterprise commitments.
• Strong financial acumen: budgeting, headcount, ROI tracking for platform investments.
• Excellent executive communication translating status to C-suite stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the Rubiscape engineering programme roadmap across six studios.
• Drive SAFe PI Planning cycles and publish programme boards with dependencies.
• Manage RAID logs and escalate blockers across organisational boundaries.
• Partner on capacity planning, headcount forecasting, and investment prioritisation.
• Own release governance including stage gates, go/no-go decisions, and post-release SLA tracking.
• Produce monthly programme health reports for the executive team.

Skills

Programme management

Executive communication

Financial acumen

Education

SAFe SPC / RTE certification

SAFe/LeSS knowledge

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

About the Role

Rubiscapes platform spans six integrated studios, 200+ enterprise integrations, and deployment models ranging from public SaaS to air-gap on-premises coordinating this complexity at programme scale requires exceptional engineering programme management. The Engineering Programme Manager owns the Rubiscape engineering roadmap execution: from annual PI Planning through to quarterly release governance and post-launch retrospectives. You will work directly with the CTO, studio engineering leads, and enterprise customer success teams to ensure that Rubiscapes promise of fewer than 90 days to first production use case is delivered consistently and repeatably. This role operates at the intersection of strategy and execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Rubiscape engineering programme roadmap: define milestones, critical paths, resource plans, and risk registers across all six studios and shared platform workstreams.
• Drive SAFe Programme Increment (PI) Planning cycles: coordinate cross-team capacity, facilitate PI objectives setting, and publish the programme board with cross-team dependencies visible.
• Manage programme-level risks, issues, and decisions (RAID log) using Azure DevOps; escalation and resolve blockers that span organisational boundaries within committed timelines.
• Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership on capacity planning, headcount forecasting, and engineering investment prioritisation aligned to Rubiscapes OKRs.
• Own the Rubiscape release governance process: stage-gate reviews, go/no-go decisions, customer communication plans, and post-release incident SLA tracking.
• Produce monthly programme health reports for the executive team covering schedule adherence, budget burn, quality metrics, and strategic milestone progress.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering programme management standards, templates, and tooling adopted across all delivery teams.

Nice to Have

• PgMP (Programme Management Professional) or PMP certification alongside SAFe credentials.
• Experience at a B2B SaaS company delivering AI, ML, or data platform products to Fortune 500 customers.
• Familiarity with Rubiscapes technology stack: React, TypeScript, cloud data pipelines, MLOps, and enterprise BI.
• Experience managing programmes that span SaaS and on-premises delivery simultaneously, including air-gap deployment considerations.

About Rubiscape

Rubiscape is Indias leading Decision Intelligence Platform, unifying data engineering, BI, machine learning, and agentic AI in a single governed platform. Built in Pune and trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises across BFSI, manufacturing, healthcare, and government. 8 international innovation patents. 10 Industry-Academia Labs COEs. From BI to AI One Platform. Every Decision.

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering programme management experience in enterprise software, with at least 3 years in an agile (SAFe or LeSS) delivery environment.
• SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC) or SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification, demonstrating deep knowledge of PI Planning, ART execution, and programme-level metrics.
• Expert-level proficiency in Jira and Azure DevOps for programme planning, dependency tracking, portfolio dashboards, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated experience managing programmes with multiple concurrent engineering teams, cross-functional dependencies, and enterprise customer commitments.
• Strong financial acumen: comfortable managing engineering capacity budgets, headcount plans, and ROI tracking for platform investments.
• Excellent executive communication skills able to translate complex engineering programme status into clear, concise narratives for C-suite and enterprise customer stakeholders.