Senior Engineering Manager Digital Market

Job Purpose

The highly skilled Senior Engineering Manager Digital Market will guide our software development team in delivering high-quality scalable and innovative solutions as well as sustaining efforts of our current portfolio. This role combines hands‑on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities ensuring that projects are executed efficiently while fostering a culture of collaboration, growth and technical excellence. Direct leadership accountability for digital teams in India and Germany. The role will report into the Portfolio Manager Digital Market and is responsible for one or more of the company’s digital product offerings.

Duties

Leadership Mentorship & Cultural Awareness

• Lead mentor and inspire a team of software engineers fostering professional growth and technical mastery.
• Conduct regular one‑on‑one sessions, performance reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Demonstrate strong communication, empathy and active listening skills to build trust and cohesion within the team.
• Cultivate an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives, backgrounds and working styles.
• Adapt leadership approaches to different cultural contexts ensuring collaboration across global or cross‑functional teams.
• Promote psychological safety encouraging open dialogue, respectful debate and constructive feedback.

Onboarding & Knowledge Transfer

• Drive effective onboarding processes for new team members ensuring they quickly gain the technical and domain knowledge needed to contribute successfully.
• Establish and maintain clear documentation, coding standards and best practices to support long‑term team efficiency.
• Promote structured knowledge‑sharing sessions, pair programming and cross‑training to reduce single points of failure and build resilience within the team.
• Foster a culture where expertise is openly shared enabling smooth transitions when responsibilities shift and ensuring continuity across projects.
• Leads and develops employees through strong influential skills & using a performance management and development process that provides an overall context and framework to engage employee contribution with goal setting, feedback and performance development planning.
• Collaborates with Human Resources to build and develop capabilities, reduce single points of failure, deepen and diversify team to deliver against product and technical roadmaps.
• Leverages resource capacity including assignments, training, leave management, telecommuting and administers continuous performance review program to ensure effectiveness, compliance and equity within the organization.

Technical Ownership & Project Delivery

• Oversee the design, development and deployment of software solutions.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices and architectural guidelines.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to hands‑on development when needed.
• Collaborate with product managers, product owners, designers and stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Manage sprint planning, task allocation and delivery timelines.
• Identify risks, resolve blockers and ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.
• Strive for 100% say‑do ratio meaning we deliver on our commitments.
• Owner of technical competencies within assigned area and facilitator/promoter to ensure these technologies are leveraged across the wider organization.
• Suggests and supports changes to systems, tools and processes to optimise overall business performance.
• Participates in strategic planning process for the relevant product.
• Works with Service to implement service concepts and requirements into new designs, technology and development.
• Works with Quality to ensure product quality during design and production.
• Collaborates closely with product line teams to transfer digital technologies from development into the new product introduction process.
• Adheres to the digital development process as well as the product lifecycle process whilst also actively driving improvements for best practice.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Drive process adherence, improvements, automation and efficiency within the team.
• Champion a culture of innovation, knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Troubleshooting & Problem Solving

• Act as the escalation point for complex technical issues guiding the team in diagnosing and resolving problems efficiently.
• Apply and teach structured problem‑solving techniques to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
• Encourage a proactive mindset within the team ensuring potential issues are anticipated and mitigated before they impact delivery.
• Balance short‑term fixes with long‑term improvements to maintain system stability and scalability.
• Think solutions rather than problems.

Qualifications

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Proven experience (5 years) in software development with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns and agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem‑solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic leadership.
• Fluent in English.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Significant progressive experience in product development and engineering. Prior experience with system integration and/or as an architect in multiple projects.
• Knowledgeable in program management; hardware, software & product design development activities including advanced process & development technology.
• Understanding of technical challenges within key markets, digital preferred.
• Effective communicator and leader who makes commitments and delivers on promises.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.

Competencies and Abilities

Execution focus and results‑driven

• Setting and communicating KPIs and targets.
• Adopting a routine planning and reporting to monitor implementation progress across various KPI targets.
• Executing in a disciplined and focused manner keeping in mind the big picture.
• Prioritizing effectively to focus time and effort on issues of the highest importance and urgency.
• Identifying root causes of issues, developing pragmatic approaches to resolve them and deploying the appropriate resources to act on these.

Collaboration and Influencing

• Exceeding customer expectations and program delivery by engaging both team and stakeholders.
• Using communication channels to align people to exceed delivery expectations.
• Developing and coaching team to leverage informal networks to ensure on‑time delivery.
• Investing in building relationships with others to ensure an integrated team approach including effective collaboration across sites and cultures.

Decision making

• Decisive, conscientious and able to interact well in a team environment.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.

Change management

Willing and able to identify and support change and continuous improvement in own and wider business environment.

Leadership

• Directly or indirectly manage degreed staff in a global matrixed environment.
• Identify potential talent.

Planning and Decision Making

• Willing and able to identify and support change and continuous improvement in own and wider business environment.
• The ability and motivation to persistently pursue and achieve effective results.
• Coordinates with project team to ensure milestones are achieved and risks are mitigated.

Impact and Scope

• Plans and directs all aspects of assigned activities within the organization at pace.
• Obsessed with Cost & Quality.
• Contributes to establishment of functional KPIs and goal attainment.
• Collaborates across multiple sites and geographies. Will have reporting relationships in multiple sites.

Key Internal and External Relationships

• The ability to engage, challenge and work effectively with stakeholders from all functions including the Portfolios.
• Be able to lead or contribute to cross‑functional teams in technology development cycle.
• Be able to train internal and external stakeholders on our digital technologies.

Work Balance

• Leadership and management activities (including technical leadership) 50 %.
• Technical activities (design, problem‑solving, data analysis, etc.) 50 %.

To cover the above two points can expect travel 10 %.

Additional Information

We offer

Join us and we’ll help build your career with excellent training and opportunities for career growth across the business both locally and globally. You’ll experience an inclusive environment with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing. You’ll also have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, offering you and your family support from a health and wellbeing, financial and lifestyle perspective.

Join us and work for a world‑leader with the benefits and training to reward your dedication and skills. Be part of a team where we are making the world a safer place.

Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics where we celebrate support and embrace diversity.

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Employment Type

Full‑time

Key Skills

Data Center Experience, ArcGIS, Cloud Infrastructure, Construction Estimating, Go, Mathcad, React, Redux, AWS, Software Development, Auto Estimating, Distributed Systems

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1