Manager of Engineering - BenTech Integrations

The Standard India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Paid time off

Health benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

The Standard India is seeking a Manager of Engineering – BenTech Integrations to lead a cross-functional delivery pod in Bengaluru, responsible for day-to-day execution, team health, and dependable delivery of integration capabilities with platforms like Workday, ADP and UKG.

You will mentor, coach, and develop a high-performing team, align roadmap priorities with engineering direction, and partner with product, architecture, and US stakeholders to ensure production readiness and governance

Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech. in CS/IT
• 14+ years IT experience with 2+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience leading agile delivery teams for modern software
• Cloud-native experience, preferably Azure, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with globally distributed teams (India and US)
• Strong analytical, planning and leadership skills

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery for a single BenTech integration pod ensuring predictable throughput
• Translate roadmaps into actionable team plans, sprint goals and release readiness
• Remove delivery obstacles and improve team flow from planning to production support
• Drive design, build, test, deployment and stabilization activities
• Coach and develop a cross-functional engineering pod and foster accountability and collaboration
• Support hiring, onboarding and capability development for team members
• Ensure governance, security and production readiness in delivery and support
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders on pod status and risks

Skills

Engineering leadership

Agile delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud/Azure

Stakeholder management

People development

Education

B.E./B.Tech. in CS/IT

Tools

Azure

CI/CD

Test automation

Job description

The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with Standard India

A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams across the nation, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture, focused on operational excellence, thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Job Summary

The Manager of Engineering – BenTech Integrations is responsible for leading one cross-functional delivery pod within our India-based BenTech engineering organization. This role is accountable for day-to-day execution, team health, delivery predictability, and support readiness for a pod that builds, enhances, deploys, and supports integration capabilities connecting our carrier systems with the HCM and benefits administration platforms our employer clients and broker partners depend on, including platforms such as Workday, ADP, UKG, Benefitfocus, PlanSource, Businessolver, and others.

In this role, you will coach and develop a high-performing team while translating roadmap priorities and engineering direction into actionable plans, sprint execution, release outcomes, and operational readiness. You will partner closely with product, architecture, engineering, quality, and operations leaders in India and the United States to manage dependencies, remove obstacles, and deliver reliable outcomes within established engineering standards and business priorities.

This leader brings a strong delivery and customer focus, embraces servant leadership, and helps the team apply sound engineering practices to achieve quality, reliability, and continuous improvement. The role also requires attentiveness to governance, compliance, production readiness, and support for critical business periods such as Annual Enrollment and Open Enrollment.

Ability to work on-site in Bengaluru, India is a requirement of the role.

Mode of Working

This role follows a hybrid work model, with a primary base in Bengaluru. While on-site presence is essential for key engagements, flexibility is offered for remote work based on business needs and team alignment.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Execution & Predictability

• Lead day-to-day execution for a single BenTech integration delivery pod, ensuring commitments are delivered with predictable throughput, clear dependency management, and transparent communication to stakeholders.
• Translate roadmap priorities and engineering direction into actionable team plans, sprint goals, release outcomes, and support readiness activities.
• Remove delivery obstacles, elevate risks appropriately, and improve team flow from planning through production support.
• Drive strong execution across design, build, test, deployment and stabilization activities.

People Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a cross-functional engineering pod, fostering a culture of accountability, craftsmanship, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Provide ongoing feedback, performance coaching and career development support to team members.
• Build strong team connectedness and engagement while reinforcing healthy agile ways of working.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and capability development for assigned team members, helping establish and mature pod-level delivery capacity as the SGS BenTech organization grows.

Engineering Excellence & Quality

• Reinforce established engineering practices within the pod, balancing speed with quality, reliability and maintainability, including test automation, CI/CD discipline, code quality, observability and production readiness.
• Partner with lead engineers and architects to ensure sound implementation decisions, appropriate non-functional coverage and alignment to approved engineering standards.
• Use delivery, quality, and operational metrics to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen team execution over time.

Operational Readiness & Support

• Ensure the team is prepared to support production health, issue triage, defect resolution and service recovery when needed.
• Drive readiness for critical business periods, including Annual Enrollment and Open Enrollment, through planning, coordination, risk mitigation and support playbooks.
• Promote strong execution in incident follow-up, root cause analysis and preventive improvements.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, lead engineers, architects, QA, operations and US-based stakeholders to align pod plans, delivery priorities and release readiness.
• Coordinate dependencies and issue resolution across teams and partner groups, escalating risks and tradeoffs when broader leadership support is needed.
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders regarding pod status, key risks, dependencies and delivery outcomes.

Governance, Risk, & Compliance

• Ensure team execution aligns with enterprise engineering, security, risk, privacy and data governance standards.
• Reinforce disciplined change management, production readiness reviews and adherence to required controls for delivery and support.
• Use delivery and service metrics to improve transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills And Background You’ll Need

Education

B.E / B.Tech. degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.

Experience

• Typically requires 14+ years of experience within IT and 2+ years of experience managing engineering, software delivery or agile development teams, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience leading agile delivery teams responsible for building, deploying and supporting modern software solutions in a product or platform environment.
• Experience delivering customer-facing or business-critical systems with accountability for availability, quality, and performance.
• Experience with cloud-native engineering practices, preferably in Azure, including CI/CD pipelines, test automation, monitoring and production support.
• Experience working in a globally distributed delivery model with close partnership across India- and US-based teams.
• Experience managing team-level delivery dependencies, risks and stakeholder communication in a complex product or platform environment.
• Strong analytical, planning, communication, and team leadership skills.

Preferred

• Experience with integration-focused delivery, including APIs, event-driven patterns, data exchange, file-based integrations, or middleware-enabled solutions.
• Experience working with BenTech, HCM or benefits administration platforms such as Workday, ADP, UKG, Benefitfocus, PlanSource, Businessolver, or similar ecosystems.
• Familiarity with employee benefits, insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries.
• Experience supporting engineering teams through platform modernization, automation or transformation efforts.
• Exposure to quality engineering, SDET-led practices, or data-intensive delivery teams.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development practices or interest in leveraging AI tooling to accelerate integration development and testing.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate

• Engaging Hearts & Minds : Creates a team identity and builds momentum toward a shared purpose.
• Strategic Visioning : Considers different future scenarios, opportunities and risks to generate operational plans that align with the business unit/function’s strategic vision.
• Driving Success : Acts with urgency, pursues ambitious goals and shows resilience in the face of obstacles and setbacks.
• Developing People : Deliver both individual and group feedback to support ongoing development and overall department performance.
• Adaptability : Sees possibilities in changing circumstances, accepts and understands change, and alters behavior as necessary. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities.

Why Join Standard India?

• A rich benefits package that supports your health, well-being, and financial goals
• An annual incentive bonus plan tied to both individual and organizational performance
• Paid time off including earned leave, sick/casual leave, and public holidays, in accordance with the company’s leave policy
• A supportive, responsive management approach that empowers you to grow
• Opportunities for career advancement through learning, coaching, and leadership enablement
• A culture where your voice matters—your ideas shape our future, and we win as one
• Purpose-driven work that makes a difference for our customers, communities, and each other

In addition to a competitive salary, our employee-focused benefits are designed to support work-life balance, personal growth, and long-term impact.

Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on a variety of factors including individual and organizational performance.

StanCorp Global Services India Private Limited is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, caste, HIV status or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws of India.