First American - Engineering Manager

Description :

Engineering Manager - FA Trust

Location : India (Hybrid)

Role Summary :

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead engineering delivery from India across a portfolio of third-party product integrations, internally built platforms, and emerging agentic AI capabilities. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and execution ownership in a global engineering environment.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience leading engineering teams, delivering cloud-native and integration-heavy solutions, and adopting AI-assisted engineering practices to improve product development and delivery.

Key Responsibilities :

Team Leadership and Delivery :

- Lead, manage, and develop a team of 10+ engineers.

- Drive execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery.

- Foster a culture of accountability, engineering quality, and continuous improvement.

Technical Leadership :

- Provide technical leadership across architecture, design, and delivery of cloud-native applications and integration services.

- Act as an escalation point for complex challenges involving integrations, identity, architecture, and platform reliability.

- Partner with engineers on solution design, technical trade-offs, and implementation decisions.

- Support strategic engineering priorities including platform simplification, cost optimization, AI-assisted engineering, and development of agentic AI capabilities.

Cross-Functional and Global Collaboration :

- Align with engineering and business leadership on priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans.

- Collaborate closely with FA Trust product teams and partner teams across India and the US.

- Ensure clear communication, dependency management, and execution across distributed teams.

- Support enterprise initiatives related to modernization, security, and platform standardization.

Governance and Operational Excellence :

- Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and compliance requirements.

- Drive improvements in availability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.

- Promote disciplined engineering practices across delivery and operations.

Agentic Product Development (desirable) :

- Support adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the team.

- Identify practical use cases for agentic AI and AI-enabled workflows in engineering and product delivery.

- Guide teams in designing, integrating, and operating agentic capabilities within products and internal platforms where appropriate.

Required Qualifications :

- 14+ years of software engineering experience.

- 2+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager or Technical Manager role.

- Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams in complex delivery environments.

- Strong background in architecture and design of cloud-native applications and enterprise integration solutions.

- Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications on Azure using Python.

- Strong knowledge of Azure services including Kubernetes, Azure Functions, and API Management.

- Experience in designing and building REST APIs, webhooks, and service integrations.

- Strong RDBMS experience, including schema design and query development in PostgreSQL, MS SQL, or similar databases.

- Solid understanding of API design, integration patterns, enterprise architecture, security, scalability, observability, and performance engineering.

- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.

- Experience working with global teams in a matrixed organization.