This role combines people leadership with technical ownership. The manager will establish a reliable operating rhythm for the team, set priorities, coach and develop engineers, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure that enterprise platforms and services are secure, well-documented, measurable, and responsive to business needs.
Key responsibilities
People leadership and team management
- Lead, coach, and develop Enterprise Solutions Engineers in India and across the broader team.
- Set clear goals, ownership, service expectations, and development plans for each team member.
- Establish team standards for communication, documentation, quality, delivery, and operational follow-through.
- Run regular one-on-ones, team meetings, planning sessions, and performance reviews.
- Build accountability for commitments while creating a collaborative and supportive team environment.
- Recruit, onboard, mentor, and retain Enterprise Solutions talent.
- Coordinate knowledge transfer, coverage, succession planning, and cross-training so critical services do not depend on a single individual.
Portfolio, prioritization, and stakeholder management
- Own the Enterprise Solutions team backlog and prioritize work across operational support, projects, platform improvements, automation, reporting, and strategic initiatives.
- Translate business needs into clear requirements, delivery plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for Enterprise Solutions work and communicate status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to leadership.
- Establish and maintain an operating rhythm for intake, prioritization, delivery tracking, service reviews, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Corporate Support, Product Engineering, Data & AI, Information Security, Finance, Human Resources, and business stakeholders.
- Ensure commitments are realistic, visible, and delivered with appropriate quality and documentation.
Enterprise platform ownership
- Provide governance and technical direction for Atlassian products, Jira Service Management, Zendesk, Glean, Power BI, Power Automate, Jira Assets, and related platforms.
- Ensure platforms are configured, administered, monitored, and improved as reliable enterprise services.
- Establish platform roadmaps, lifecycle plans, access controls, configuration standards, and service documentation.
- Oversee provisioning, configuration, troubleshooting, vendor coordination, and platform changes.
- Ensure platform administration follows security, compliance, change-management, and data‑protection requirements.
AI adoption and enablement
- Lead the assessment, piloting, implementation, governance, and adoption of AI tools such as Glean, Claude, Cursor, and Fellow.ai.
- Identify and document business cases for AI integration and measure adoption, productivity, quality, and business outcomes.
- Establish practical standards, workflows, training, and compliance procedures for responsible AI use.
- Coach the team to use AI‑assisted development and automation tools responsibly to improve delivery speed and quality.
Enterprise data management and business intelligence
- Oversee the design, management, and optimization of Power BI dataflows, reports, dashboards, and supporting data processes.
- Ensure reporting requirements are translated into accurate, maintainable, and actionable business intelligence solutions.
- Establish standards for data integrity, security, accessibility, documentation, and report ownership.
- Coordinate the transition and modernization of reporting infrastructure, including potential migration toward Snowflake and partnership with the Data & AI team.
Process automation and systems integration
- Direct automation of business processes within Jira Service Management and other enterprise platforms.
- Oversee integrations using Power Automate, APIs, Python, and other middleware or automation technologies.
- Identify opportunities to remove manual effort, improve control quality, reduce operational risk, and increase service responsiveness.
- Ensure automation is tested, documented, monitored, supportable, and governed through appropriate change controls.
Asset management and service operations
- Oversee asset‑management practices using Jira Assets, including hardware, software, application, service, and ownership records.
- Maintain accurate inventories and ensure alignment with compliance, lifecycle‑management, and operational requirements.
- Define service measures, operational reports, escalation paths, and support procedures for Enterprise Solutions services.
- Ensure incidents, problems, requests, changes, and recurring operational work are managed consistently and used to drive improvement.
- Require clear root‑cause analysis and corrective actions for material service issues or missed commitments.
Documentation, training, and knowledge management
- Establish and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, runbooks, service definitions, and ownership records.
- Ensure the team creates user-focused knowledge articles and delivers training for platform users and stakeholders.
- Build a searchable, current knowledge base that supports onboarding, self‑service, continuity, and auditability.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise applications, business systems, IT operations, systems integration, business intelligence, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience leading, managing, mentoring, or coordinating technical professionals.
- Proven hands‑on experience with enterprise platforms such as Atlassian products, Jira Service Management, Zendesk, Power BI, and AI tools such as Glean or Claude.
- Experience managing a team backlog, setting priorities, coordinating delivery, and communicating status to senior stakeholders.
- Competence in data modeling, ETL, reporting, and dashboard development, including Power BI and preferably Python or SQL.
- Demonstrated ability to automate and integrate systems and business processes using Power Automate, APIs, scripting, or middleware.
- Experience supporting asset‑management solutions such as Jira Assets or comparable platforms.
- Strong understanding of access management, information security, data protection, change management, and operational controls.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with US-based and globally distributed teams.
- Demonstrated ability to create clear documentation, facilitate training, and establish repeatable operating practices.
- Strong judgment, problem‑solving, prioritization, and conflict‑resolution skills.
Preferred Skills And Experience
- Experience administering or leading an Atlassian ecosystem, including Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management.
- Experience with Zendesk administration, reporting, workflows, or platform transitions.
- Experience with Glean, Claude, Cursor, Fellow.ai, or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
- Experience with Power BI dataflows, Power Automate, Python, SQL, REST APIs, or similar integration technologies.
- Experience leading platform migrations, service consolidations, or enterprise operating‑model improvements.
- Experience in financial technology, wealth management, or another regulated industry.
- Familiarity with vendor management, licensing, service‑level reporting, and technology portfolio planning.
Success in the first 12 months
- A clear team structure, ownership model, backlog, and operating rhythm are in place.
- Each Enterprise Solutions Engineer has defined responsibilities, goals, development priorities, and backup coverage.
- Critical Atlassian, Power BI, Power Automate, Zendesk, Glean, and Jira Assets services have documented owners, procedures, and escalation paths.
- Reporting and service metrics are reliable, visible, and reviewed regularly.
- The team has reduced dependency on individual knowledge through documentation, cross‑training, and repeatable processes.
- Priority automation and platform‑improvement initiatives are delivered with measurable operational or business impact.
- Stakeholders experience predictable communication, clear prioritization, and improved responsiveness from Enterprise Solutions.