Manager Engineering

NIQ for Digital Commerce; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

LinkedIn Learning

Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Job summary

NIQ Analytics is seeking an Engineering Manager (Full stack + AI) to lead a high-performing team across Chennai and Pune. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on software development in Java, Spring Boot, Angular, and AI-powered solutions to deliver scalable products for NIQ's growing customer base.

The candidate will drive architectural excellence, oversee delivery, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to productionize features and optimize costs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, building scalable frontends and 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
• Experience in design, build, deploy, refactor enterprise grade applications
• Deep expertise in Angular, Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices
• Hands-on experience in Agentic AI development using LangGraph, LangChain, or Google ADK
• Hands-on experience building RAG-based applications and solutions
• Understanding of MCP and A2A protocols
• Cloud ecosystems with Azure/AWS/GCP
• DevSecOps pipeline and quality gates (code coverage, testing, SAST, DAST)
• Experience in agile methodologies and sprint planning; Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Shapes best practices, coding standards, and software architecture at an organizational level
• Lead solutions that improve API services quality, performance, and reliability
• Lead frontend Angular code quality improvements across the organization
• Develop AI-powered solutions to enhance end-user experience and productivity
• Adopt AI tools in SDLC for efficiency gains
• Optimize computing cost and performance with engineering principles
• Collaborate with PL, Arch, PMO, and interfacing teams to productionize features
• Enforce DevSecOps practices including secret management, SAST, DAST
• Progressive coverage in unit testing
• Mentor and develop engineering talent with clear delivery accountability
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and API roadmaps
• Influence without authority through expertise and collaboration
• Research and evaluate new technologies and engineering practices
• Use AI to design automated reliability improvements and incident simulations
• Make technical decisions with business impact and cost efficiency

Job description

Job Description:

Company Description

Job Description

Manager, Engineering (Full stack + AI)

Chennai/Pune

About the Job

The Engineering Manager within NIQ Analytics will report to the Director, Analytics Engineering and lead a high-performing team of software engineers in delivering scalable, AI-enabled product solutions. The role combines strong engineering leadership with hands on technical direction across Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, driving modern architecture, engineering excellence, and successful delivery of innovative solutions for NIQ's growing customer base. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a balanced allocation of responsibilities, with approximately 50% focused on engineering leadership activities such as technical reviews, planning, stakeholder management, talent development, and delivery oversight, and 50% dedicated to hands-on software engineering, including architecture, coding, design reviews, technical problem solving.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Lead solutions that improve Frontend - Angular code quality, performance, and reliability across the organization
• Lead the development of AI-powered solutions that enhance end-user experience, simplify workflows, and drive greater productivity.
• Adopt and improve efficiency gain by Adopting AI tools in SDLC
• Optimize computing cost, performance using the appropriate software engineering principles
• Work closely with PL, Arch, PMO, Interfacing teams to productionize features.
• Enforce DevSecOps practices - Secret, SAST, DAST
• Progressive coverage in unit testing.
• Develop engineering talent through coaching, technical mentorship, constructive reviews, and clear accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and platform APIs roadmap discussions
• Leads without authority, influencing expertise, logical reasoning, and collaboration.
• Knowledge of technology standards and ability to convey key aspects to team members.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices that can strengthen the product and platform. 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, building scalable frontends and 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 Angular, Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices.
• Good to have hands-on experience in Agentic AI development using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or Google ADK.
• Good to have hands-on experience building RAG-based applications and solutions.
• Good understanding of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent2Agent) protocols
• Strong expertise Database (RDBMS, NoSQL, Mongo, Postgres, Snowflake)
• Hands on in tools for Caching, Queuing (Redis Cache preferred)
• Experience integrating LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral, or equivalent providers.
• Experience in Modern cloud ecosystems with Azure/ AWS/ GCP
• Strong expertise in DevSecOps pipeline, quality gates, tools (code coverage, testing, sast, dast)
• Resolved cross-team challenges by fostering open and constructive conversations
• Experience working in agile methodologies and sprint planning. Must have a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

NIQ may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools at various stages of the recruitment process, including résumé screening, candidate assessments, interview scheduling, job matching, communication support, and certain administrative tasks that help streamline workflows. These tools are intended to improve efficiency and support fair and consistent evaluation based on job-related criteria. All use of AI is governed by NIQ's principles of fairness, transparency, human oversight, and inclusion. Final hiring decisions are made exclusively by humans. NIQ regularly reviews its AI tools to help mitigate bias and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. If you have questions, require accommodations, or wish to request human review were permitted by law, please contact your local HR representative. For more information, please visit NIQ's AI Safety Policies and Guiding Principles: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/info/niqs-ai-safety-policies/

About NIQ

NIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms, NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.

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