Sr Manager Engineering

Siemens; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead one or more software teams building a cloud-native SaaS platform for healthcare. You will drive technical decisions, ownership of delivery, and people management in a regulated context.

The ideal candidate has 8–12 years in software, strong SaaS operations on AWS, and a track record of leading engineering transformation with AI-enabled solutions. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams and quality compliance.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams as EM or SEM.
• Proven SaaS operational experience in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow software engineers and tech leads.
• Drive adoption of Generative AI, AI agents, and intelligent automation.
• Ensure execution through agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Oversee reliability, observability, and incident management.

Skills

Leadership

Java

Kotlin

Spring

React Native

CI/CD

Cloud architecture

Agile/Scrum

System design

Python

Education

BE/MSc/MCA in CS or related

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Gitlab

PostgreSQL/NoSQL

Job description

Position Summary

We are seeking a hands‑on Senior Engineering Manager to lead one or more software engineering teams developing and operating a cloud‑native SaaS platform used by cancer patients, clinicians, and healthcare providers. This role combines engineering leadership, technical decision‑making, delivery ownership, and people management.

The ideal candidate has experience building and scaling highly available SaaS applications on AWS, leading cross‑functional product teams, and delivering software in regulated environments such as healthcare, medical devices, or other quality‑sensitive industries.

The productis Varians cloud‑based software solution for patient relationships and care navigation management.Itsdesigned to connect cancer patients with their clinics online throughout the entire cancer journey.The product used by35000+ active cancer patients and healthcare professionals from leading oncologycentersinNorth America and Europe.The candidate in this role will provide strong product development leadership to a team of software engineers and test engineers, working in an agile/scrum environment.

Job Description

Position Duties

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of strong software engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers.
• Drive the adoption of Generative AI technologies, AI agents, and intelligent automation to improve both customer experience and engineering productivity.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture emphasizing ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive recruitment, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Work closely with Product Management, UX, Clinical, Regulatory, and Quality teams to translate business objectives into executable plans.
• Drive predictable execution through agile development methodologies.
• Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, automation, incident management, and reliability engineering practices.
• Champion DevOps and CI/CD practices that enable rapid and safe deployments.
• Oversee disaster recovery, business continuity, and production readiness activities.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Security teams. Ensure software development activities comply with applicable quality and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications Required

BE, MSc, MCA, Computer Science or related discipline.

Number of years related experience: 8-12 years.

Special Knowledge / Skills

Required

• 10-12 years of software engineering experience. 3+ years leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager.
• Strong SaaS operational experience (running production services, not just building features).
• Hands‑on technical credibilityable to review designs, challenge architecture decisions, and occasionally dive into code.
• Proven experience leading engineering transformation in cloud SaaS environments.
• A track record of adopting AI technologies to improve products and engineering effectiveness.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure automation, and cloud‑native technologies.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and system design.
• Strong object‑oriented programming skills in JAVA and Kotlin with Spring.
• Mobile app development experience with open‑source UI toolkit (React native, Flutter etc.)
• Experience working with source control and configuration management tools like Gitlab.
• Experience with several of the following:
• AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM)
• Kubernetes
• Terraform or Infrastructure as Code
• Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or similar modern languages
• React, Angular, or modern frontend frameworks
• REST APIs and event‑driven architectures
• PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
• Observability tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic

Nice to have

• Experience developing healthcare products conforming quality system regulations.
• Experience in healthcare domain and medical interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7
• Certifications from AWS or Azure