Manager - Engineering

Davies Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Davies Group in Pune is seeking an experienced Manager - Engineering to lead delivery and enable high-performing teams across IT initiatives. You will ensure milestones are understood, dependencies managed, and value delivered through strong governance and collaboration with product and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities include planning end-to-end delivery, driving the roadmap with leaders, removing impediments, and promoting modern engineering practices while maintaining security and

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience delivering complex software products or platforms.
• Experience delivering complex digital transformation programmes using Agile principles
• Strong understanding of modern Engineering practices and flow-based value creation
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to analyse data and use metrics to guide decisions
• Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional discussions, interactive workshops, and team ceremonies to drive alignment and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Delivery planning and end-to-end delivery oversight across squads and functions.
• Provide clear communication on progress, risks, and priorities with data-driven forecasting.
• Enable autonomous, high-performing teams through good engineering practices and facilitation.
• Support governance, quality, security, and release-readiness activities.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and platform-wide initiatives across IT and business functions.

Job description

Manager - Engineering

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Description

The Manager-Engineering is responsible for ensuring that milestones are clearly understood and documented, and software development teams deliver high quality products and enhancements efficiently, predictably, and sustainably, focusing on resolving business problems/goals. They remove obstacles, facilitate effective collaboration, and support teams in meeting their delivery commitments and delivering value. Engineering Managers act as the connective tissue between engineering, product, and business stakeholders, ensuring transparency, alignment, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Planning & Execution

Oversee and facilitate the end-to-end delivery of software features, services, or platforms from discovery through deployment‑to‑end delivery of software features, services, or platforms from discovery through deployment. Track and manage dependencies, risks, and issues across squads and functions, feeding into central logs and steering board packs as required. Drive the delivery roadmap in partnership with Head of Products and Technical Leads.

Stakeholder Communication & Transparency

Provide clear, consistent communication on progress, risks, and priorities. Support product and engineering leaders with data driven forecasting. Ensure that stakeholders have full visibility without disrupting team focus.

Team Enablement & Facilitation

Cultivate strong, autonomous, high performing teams by promoting good engineering practices. Facilitate workshops, and collaborative planning sessions. Remove impediments that block progress to the delivery of core program milestones —both within the team and at organisational level. Facilitate and coordinate multiple streams across IT and business functions, including preparation of ‘go-live’ and support of hyper care.

Governance, Standards & Compliance

Support PMO and senior leaders with creation of steering committee presentations. Ensure teams follow organisational quality, security, and engineering standards. Support coordination around audits, compliance checks, and release readiness activities.

Cross Team Coordination‑Team Coordination

Assist with managing cross team dependencies and facilitate alignment across multiple squads. Partner with architects, engineers, and product leaders to coordinate platform‑wide initiatives.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven hands-on experience delivering complex software products or platforms.
• Proven experience in delivering complex digital transformation programmes using Agile principles
• Strong understanding of modern Engineering practices, and flow-based value creation by engineering teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to analyse data and use metrics to guide decisions.
• Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional discussions, interactive workshops, and team ceremonies to drive alignment and outcomes.