Sr Software Engineering Mgr IND [T500-29621]

FM; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FM in Bengaluru invites applications for a Sr Software Engineering Manager IND to lead technology delivery across teams and vendors. This player/coach role emphasizes architecture, SDLC governance, and scale.

You will mentor engineers, drive coding standards, and align product goals with security and quality practices, while pursuing innovative AI-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience evaluating technologies, running proofs of concepts, and managing technology vendor relationships.
• Strong background in software engineering and relevant technologies.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive technology delivery and enable team goals.
• Quality gatekeeper: code reviews, refinements, releases, and technical guidance.
• Identify blockers and enable progress with POCs and templating.
• Build and mentor high-performing development teams with technical and cultural fit.
• Admin responsibilities for direct reports including HR, budgets, and career development.
• Develop talent through coaching, 1:1s, and performance evaluations.
• Shape future tech needs and strategic objectives across the organization.

Skills

SDLC governance

AI tooling

Cloud-native

API design GraphQL

Job description

We are a highly successful 190-year-old, Fortune 500 commercial property insurance company of 6,000+ employees with a unique focus on science and risk engineering. Businesses worldwide trust our expertise to protect their assets, relying on our comprehensive risk assessments and robust, engineering-based insurance solutions to safeguard against fire, natural disasters, and other perils. Serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 and major corporations globally, we deliver data-driven strategies that enhance resilience, ensure business continuity, and empower organizations to thrive.

FM India is a strategic location for driving our global operational efficiency. Our presence in India allows us to leverage the country’s talented workforce and advance our capabilities to serve our clients better. We have diverse corporate functions that emphasize research, advanced technologies like AI and analytics, risk engineering, research, finance, marketing, HR, etc. working together to provide innovative solutions and nurture lasting relationships – from co-workers to clients.

Role Title: Sr Software Engineering Manager IND

Position Summary:

This role is a player/coach manager and a contributing member of their technology teams. They oversee technology delivery of their teams, which may be comprised of full-time technologists, contingent workers, and/or vendor partners.

They guide technology direction and leads technical initiatives at an organization level and across product teams. They are the quality gatekeeper of their teams and ensures company development, security, and test standards are followed by overseeing coding process and ensures standards and process such as code reviews, refinement, and releases are followed through their technical guidance and leadership. They are a servant leader and helps to remove obstacles from their teams proactively identifying risk and providing technology proof of concept and templates.

They are focused on building strong teams and ensures their team members have the appropriate technical skills and cultural fit through coaching and mentoring. They help to build and maximize the capabilities and skills within and across the Software Engineering department. They are responsible for the development and growth of their full-time employees and building of their individual competencies. They are responsible for team composition optimization, for reviewing priorities and assessing resource and or backlog redirection, for metrics associated with talent evolution, and for all other administrative responsibilities within the department.

They are a technologist who identifies relevant technology trends and tools that could improve skillsets within the organization and overall technology product delivery. They act as practice leader who engages with product owners as a technical SME.

Job Responsibilities:

• Technical Value Delivery – Team Level for all Team Members: Driving Delivery & Tech Needs.
• Quality Gatekeeper: Coding Process, Code Reviews, Refinement, Releases, Technical Guidance & Leadership
• Remove Blockers - Raise Risks, CRs, Paves the Way via POCs, Templating. Removes Distractions.
• Team Building - Building Strong Dev Teams, Tech & Cultural Fit Eval, Coach & Mentor the Team.
• Administration – Team Level: Admin of/for Direct Reports both full-time and contingent: Hiring, Workday Admin, HR, Immigration, Required Training, Access, Contracts, Legal, Budgeting, Planning.
• Develops Talent – Individual Level for Full Time Employees, 1:1s, Individual Coach & Mentor, Training, Finding New Opportunities, Performance Reviews, Promotions
• Expand Capabilities – SBE, Tech Product Level: Drives Strategy, Leading Strategic Org Objectives: Future Tech Needs, POCs, Community of Interest sponsorship.

Skill and Experience:

• 7+ years of relevant experience required to perform essential job functions.
• Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): Experience in development and evaluating technologies, running effective technology proof of concepts, and managing technology vendor relationships. Experience interviewing, hiring and assessing personnel. Experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing highly motivated technical workforce.
• Strong background in appropriate areas of technology.
• Communication skills to provide guidance and education on new concepts and practices to engineering team members.
• Ability to provide clear and direction communication regarding performance and skill development.
• Proven skills in coaching engineering team members in the areas of performance, standards and work methods.
• Proven ability to resolve conflicts in within and across teams; before they expand (mediation skills).
• Ability to organize events (theme meetings, hackathons) in the subject area; Ability to create an atmosphere of trust and comfortable and efficient work environment.

Must Have Skills:

• Enterprise software architecture and full SDLC, including AI tooling.
• Cloud-native development and containerization technologies
• Strong software quality, security, and CI/CD practices
• Skilled in integration technologies and API design, including GraphQL