Senior Manager Software

Ensemble Global; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ensemble Global seeks an experienced Engineering Leader to guide software platforms and enterprise-grade applications. You will own delivery, set technical direction, and partner with product, architecture, data, and security teams to align priorities.

You will coach managers and senior engineers, drive cloud-native design, API-first development, microservices, and CI/CD maturity to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions across the organization.

Qualifications

• 13/14+ years of experience in software engineering, product engineering, or platform engineering.
• 6+ years leading engineering teams across multiple groups.
• Strong background in REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on Azure or similar cloud platform experience.
• Strong SDLC, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and production support.
• Strong architectural mindset and ability to influence cross-team technical decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering team responsible for enterprise-grade applications.
• Partner with stakeholders to align product engineering roadmap with priorities.
• Provide technical direction across design, architecture reviews, and delivery.
• Ensure scalable, secure, performant, maintainable solutions.
• Drive cloud-native design, API-first development, and microservices.
• Own end-to-end delivery and release readiness for assigned teams.
• Improve CI/CD maturity and operational stability.
• Coach managers and engineers to improve execution and collaboration.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering leadership

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Azure

SDLC

Agile delivery

CI/CD

Release management

Production support

Architectural mindset

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership & Technical Execution

• Lead software engineering team responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining enterprise-grade applications and platforms.
• Partner with stake holders to execute the product engineering roadmap aligned with platform, and business priorities.
• Provide technical direction across application design, architecture reviews, reusable components, engineering standards, and solution delivery.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, performant, maintainable, and aligned with modern engineering practices.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native design, API-first development, microservices, event-driven patterns, and modern .NET engineering practices where applicable.
• Delivery Excellence & Operational Ownership
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes for assigned engineering teams, including planning, execution, dependency management, risk identification, and release readiness.
• Establish predictable delivery practices through strong sprint planning, capacity management, estimation discipline, and execution tracking.
• Ensure teams maintain high standards for delivery quality, production readiness, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with DevOps, Platform, and Architecture teams to improve CI/CD maturity, deployment reliability, observability, and operational stability.
• Drive engineering accountability for SLAs, performance, scalability, availability, and cost optimization.

Quality, Security & Engineering Practices

• Champion engineering excellence across teams by promoting code quality, design reviews, automated testing, secure coding, and maintainable architecture.
• Drive proactive identification and remediation of technical debt, performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and reliability gaps.
• Support compliance with healthcare technology security, privacy, and regulatory expectations.
• Encourage responsible use of modern engineering productivity tools, including AI-assisted coding and automation, to improve developer efficiency and quality.
• Manage and develop engineering leads, senior engineers, and high-performing engineering teams.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, succession planning, and leadership development for engineering talent.
• Coach managers and technical leaders to improve execution rigor, stakeholder communication, engineering judgment, and team effectiveness.
• Identify capability gaps and create development plans to strengthen team maturity and delivery confidence.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Strategic Support

• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Data, AI/ML, Security, DevOps, and business stakeholders to align priorities and execution plans.
• Support Engineering Leaders in translating strategic priorities into actionable execution plans for teams.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and delivery status clearly to senior engineering and business leadership.
• Act as a bridge between strategy and execution, ensuring teams understand business context, technical priorities, and expected outcomes.
• Contribute to engineering governance, operating rhythms, planning reviews, and cross-team alignment forums.

Skills Required:

• 13/14+ years of experience in software engineering, product engineering, or platform engineering.
• 6+ years of experience leading engineering teams, preferably across multiple teams, pods, or product areas.
• Strong technical background in modern software engineering using technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on understanding of Azure or similar cloud platforms, including application hosting, storage, databases, observability, and cloud operations.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and production support.
• Strong architectural mindset with the ability to review designs, challenge assumptions, identify risks, and influence cross-team technical decisions.
• Experience driving engineering quality, performance optimization, reliability improvements, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
• Strong people leadership skills with demonstrated ability to coach managers, develop talent, and build high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, product, architecture, and business teams.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering