Group Manager

Concentrix; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Concentrix Bengaluru is seeking a Group Manager to lead multiple engineering teams, ensure delivery quality, and drive engineering excellence. You will guide architectural decisions, cloud and DevOps practices, and mentor Engineering Managers, with a focus on AI-enabled engineering and scalable platforms.

This role emphasizes stakeholder management, governance, and financial health across customer engagements.

Qualifications

• 15–18+ years of software engineering and engineering leadership experience.
• Strong background in Java, .NET, APIs, web tech, databases, or equivalent.
• Experience growing from technical roles into Engineering Management with multi-team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers to ensure delivery quality and engineering excellence.
• Provide technical leadership with cloud, DevOps, and architecture knowledge without acting as Architect.
• Identify technical risks, trade-offs, and ensure engineering standards are followed.
• Drive modern engineering practices: automation, CI/CD, cloud-native development, observability, AI-assisted engineering.
• Develop people through hiring, mentoring, succession planning, and leadership growth.
• Own delivery governance, customer relationships, escalations, resource planning, and portfolio health.
• Find opportunities to improve engineering productivity, reuse, and adoption of new tech.
• Collaborate with Service Line and Account leadership on strategic opportunities.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software engineering

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Architecture

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Job Description

We're Concentrix. The intelligent transformation partner. Solution-focused. Tech-powered. Intelligence-fueled.

Job Title

Group Manager

Job Description

We're Concentrix. The intelligent transformation partner. Solution-focused. Tech-powered. Intelligence-fueled.

The global technology and services leader that powers the world’s best brands, today and into the future. We’re solution-focused, tech-powered, intelligence-fueled. With unique data and insights, deep industry expertise, and advanced technology solutions, we’re the intelligent transformation partner that powers a world that works, helping companies become refreshingly simple to work, interact, and transact with. We shape new game-changing careers in over 70 countries, attracting the best talent.

The Concentrix Technical Products and Services team is the driving force behind Concentrix’s transformation, data, and technology services. We integrate world-class digital engineering, creativity, and a deep understanding of human behavior to find and unlock value through tech-powered and intelligence-fueled experiences. We combine human-centered design, powerful data, and strong tech to accelerate transformation at scale. You will be surrounded by the best in the world providing market leading technology and insights to modernise and simplify the customer experience. Within our professional services team, you will deliver strategic consulting, design, advisory services, market research, and contact center analytics that deliver insights to improve outcomes and value for our clients. Hence achieving our vision.

Our game-changers around the world have devoted their careers to ensuring every relationship is exceptional. And we’re proud to be recognised with awards such as \"World's Best Workplaces,\" “Best Companies for Career Growth,” and “Best Company Culture," year after year.

Join us and be part of this journey towards greater opportunities and brighter futures.

Position Summary

The Group Manager is responsible for leading a portfolio of engineering teams, ensuring successful delivery, engineering excellence, people development, and operational and financial health across multiple customer engagements.

The role combines engineering leadership, technical understanding, delivery governance, and people leadership. The Group Manager should have a strong software engineering background and be technically credible across areas such as modern application development, cloud, DevOps, architecture practices, and emerging technologies such as AI. The role is not expected to be hands‑on at an Architect level, but should be able to understand technical decisions, challenge risks and trade‑offs, and guide Engineering Managers and technical leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers, ensuring delivery quality, engineering excellence, and predictable outcomes.


• Provide technical leadership and guidance with a strong understanding of software engineering, architecture practices, cloud, and DevOps, without being expected to operate at an Architect level.


• Partner with Architects and Engineering Managers to identify technical risks, evaluate trade‑offs, and ensure appropriate engineering standards and practices are followed.


• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including automation, CI/CD, cloud‑native development, platform engineering, observability, and AI‑assisted engineering.


• Lead people development, capability building, hiring, succession planning, and development of strong engineering and technical leadership.


• Own delivery governance, customer relationships, escalations, resource planning, utilisation, forecasting, and portfolio financial health.


• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, engineering productivity, reuse, automation, and adoption of emerging technologies.


• Partner with Service Line and Account leadership on strategic initiatives, customer growth, and engineering opportunities.

Required

Skills & Experience

• 15–18+ years of experience in software engineering and engineering leadership.


• Strong engineering background with prior experience in one or more core technologies such as Java, .NET, APIs, web technologies, databases, or similar platforms.


• Experience growing from an engineering/technical role into Engineering Management and leading multiple engineering teams or managers.


• Strong understanding of modern software engineering, Agile delivery, architecture principles, cloud, DevOps, and engineering practices.


• Ability to engage credibly with Architects, senior engineers, Engineering Managers, and customer technology stakeholders.


• Strong people leadership, stakeholder management, communication, delivery governance, resource planning, and financial management skills.

Preferred

• Experience with any one AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.


• Exposure to cloud‑native architectures, Platform Engineering, DevOps, observability, and application modernisation.


• Experience with AI‑assisted software engineering, AI adoption, or emerging agentic engineering practices.


• Experience supporting presales.


• Experience establishing engineering standards, communities of practice, or reusable engineering assets.