Technical Manager

Toyota Automated Logistics; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,750,000; Full time

Job summary

TAL, operating as Toyota Advanced Logistics, seeks a passionate leader to drive operational excellence, standardize processes, and lead transformation across our global procurement operations. You will shape the organization as TAL grows, guiding high‑performing teams and delivering value at scale.

With 14–18 years of experience and a strong background in software leadership, you will partner with Architects and Leaders to implement Agile, DevOps, and cloud‑native solutions in a fast‑paced,

Qualifications

• 14–18 years of overall experience in software leadership roles.
• 5–7 years in senior technical and operational leadership delivering high‑performance software products.
• Experience leading 4+ Scrum teams and 30+ engineers with performance management.
• Proven ability to drive MVP/MVO delivery with delivery metrics.
• Strong enterprise software architecture and cloud‑native development background.
• Experience with event‑driven, domain‑driven microservices.
• Warehouse automation or logistics knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence and process standardization across TAL.
• Lead MVP/MVO delivery with velocity, quality, and throughput metrics.
• Manage 4+ Scrum teams and 30+ engineers, including performance management and PDPs.
• Collaborate with Solution and Software Architects; influence direction across teams.
• Foster continuous improvement, DevOps, and automation‑first mindset.
• Shape TAL organization structures and standards during transformation.

Skills

Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Delivery Management

Stakeholder Management

Team Building

Strategic Oversight

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/IT

Tools

.NET

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Job Title

Technical Manager

Job Description:

Toyota Advanced Logistics (TAL), started per April 1st 2026 as a newly formed company, combining the Warehousing activities of Vanderlande (Netherlands), Viastore (Germany), Bastian Solutions (USA) and Toyota L&F (Japan). The focus of the new company is on Warehouse Automation, utilizing the strengths of all former companies to offer a wide variety of automation solutions to our customers.

At TAL, we are seeking a passionate and ambitious leader, capable of driving operational excellence, stakeholder satisfaction, process standardization, and continuous improvement across our global procurement operations. We are still setting up organization structures, processes and standards for TAL as new company, and hence transformation will be an import task in shaping the future, which requires strong leadership.

Relevant Experience Required

14–18 years of overall experience, with minimum 5–7 years in senior technical and operational leadership roles managing software development teams or departments delivering high-performance, low-latency, enterprise-grade software products.
Proven experience in strategic oversight, workforce management, and execution excellence within a scaled Agile environment, preferably in a product-led, platform-oriented organization.

Required Skills & Competencies

Education & Technical Foundation

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent.

Minimum 4+ years hands‑on experience as a Software Engineer or Architect working with Dot Net (.Net) based enterprise applications.

Strong grounding in enterprise software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud‑native development.

Delivery Leadership

Ability to define, articulate, and execute improvement areas aligned with organizational and product vision.

Proven experience driving MVP/MVO delivery, ensuring predictable outcomes using delivery metrics across velocity, quality, and throughput.

Strong analytical mindset to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery in complex environments.

Experience influencing direction in collaboration with Solution and Software Architects.

People Leadership & Workforce Management

Demonstrated ability to motivate, coach, and grow high‑performing teams, fostering an environment where individuals and teams can reach their full potential.

Experience managing 4+ Scrum teams and 30+ engineers, including performance management, career development, PDPs, and PIPs.

Hands‑on experience with hiring, onboarding, offboarding, and capacity planning in collaboration with HR.

Strong people leadership presence with the ability to build high‑performance, inclusive team cultures.

Agile, DevOps & Continuous Improvement

Minimum 3+ years of experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, with strong coaching capability in Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.

Strong advocate of continuous improvement across people, processes, and tools.

Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and driving consistent ways of working across teams.

Product development background with DevOps and automation‑first mindset is a strong plus.

Experience delivering software with high levels of test and deployment automation (CI/CD).

Technology & Architecture

Expert knowledge of event‑driven, domain‑driven architectures using microservices and ubiquitous language.

Working knowledge of containerized application development and deployment on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, etc.) using Kubernetes.

Experience with enterprise‑scale systems and cloud‑native platforms.

Familiarity with TDD/BDD practices and modern engineering best practices is a plus.

Warehouse automation or logistics domain knowledge is a plus.

Stakeholder, Risk & Escalation Management

Strong stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating closely with RTEs, Leads, CPO’s and Architecture teams.

Acts as a primary escalation point for delivery, people, and technical risks; proactively mitigates impediments.

Ability to clearly represent both business and technology perspectives across the SDLC.

Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills; capable of influencing across a matrixed, multinational organization.

Tools & Ways of Working

Working experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) is a plus.

Strong understanding of SDLC best practices, including coding standards, reviews, source control, testing, and operations.

Additional Requirements

Strong English communication skills (written and verbal).

Ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced environment with competing priorities.

Willingness to travel internationally (10–30%)

Diversity & inclusion

TAL is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Requirements: