About the job :

Manager - Modern Product Engineering

A Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for pioneering intelligent business outcomes, leading complex AI-native software engineering initiatives .

Your Responsibilities :

This isnt a resource allocation role. You are a forward-deployed solver (FDS), a DRI who owns the velocity and quality of solution delivery. Your mission is to foster a team of expert engineers, lead execution rigor, and ensure that every project we ship is a benchmark for AI-driven modernization and real business outcome.

Heres how youll make your mark :

Own Delivery Execution & Engineering Excellence :

- Lead the Squad : Serve as the hands-on leader for a team of Modern Product Engineers, owning project execution, code quality, and delivery timelines across multiple simultaneous client engagements.

- Translate Architecture to Code : Partner closely with Solutions Architects (SAs) to refine high-level blueprints into modular, shippable engineering tasks, ensuring technical feasibility and excellence.

- Process Enforcement : Implement and enforce our 'process-first' standards, ensuring rigorous application of agile methodologies, code reviews, and quality benchmarks across the BU's portfolio.

- Quality Assurance : Own the quality engineering lifecycle, ensuring strong test coverage, minimised technical debt, and robust CI/CD pipeline integrity for every deployment.

Drive Team Growth & Operational Health :

- Elevate Talent : Actively coach, mentor, and elevate the technical skills of your squad, guiding engineers through their growth paths and driving high internal promotion rates.

- Culture Carrier : Champion the "Always in Beta" mindset and "Happier" values within the team, fostering a high-ownership, accountable, and collaborative culture.

- Operational Insight : Manage the squads utilization and efficiency targets, balancing billable work with critical internal IP creation and capability building.

Bridge Clients & Outcome :

- Client Interface : Serve as the technical point-of-contact for operational project discussions, managing client expectations regarding timelines, scope, and technical trade-offs.

- IP Development : Guide the team in creating and maintaining reusable assets, shared code libraries, and specialized automation scripts that enhance the BU's offering and market differentiation

- Lead engaging discovery workshops using first-principles thinking to uncover core client problems amenable to AI-powered software solutions.

- Apply our proprietary evlos methodologyiterate fast and fearlessly in the design and development of innovative systems.

- Your role is to serve as the chief technical translator between a client's biggest challenges and our most intelligent, AI-powered software engineering solutions.

- Design AI-native, cloud-forward solutions grounded in process intelligence that drive true value.

- Replace nice slides with pleasant surprises for clients via working real outcomes.

Lead by example & impact, Not control :

- Here, leadership is an action, not a title. You are the DRI for intelligent, impactful, client outcomes driven by robust software architecture.

- Mentor and technically guide fellow engineers, actively contributing to the growth of top-tier solver talent.

- Live the Always in Beta mindset - build learners, not followers in our engineering practices.

- Model extreme ownership, radical clarity, and calm in chaos when facing complex technical challenges.

- Believe in truth over comfort and learning over knowing, especially in the rapidly evolving AI/Cloud landscape.

- Contribute to cultivating a culture of self-managed, happier do-ers through technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving.

Functional Skills :

- Technical Delivery & Execution Leadership : Proven track record of managing a technical team to successfully deliver complex software engineering projects (5+ years of direct project/team leadership experience preferred). Must demonstrate recent, high-level architectural design and hands-on coding ability.

- Engineering Standards & Governance : Deep proficiency in codifying and enforcing modern engineering best practices : clean code, test-driven development, security standards (OWASP), and CI/CD quality gates.

- Execution Rigor : Expert in Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies and skilled in managing project timelines, risks, and resource allocation to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.

- Active Technical Problem Solving : Possesses the deep technical depth required to troubleshoot critical production issues, review pull requests (PRs) effectively, and make rapid, informed technical decisions under pressure.

- Technical Communication & Mentorship : Excellent ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineers and project stakeholders. A passion for coaching and developing junior talent.

- Commercial Awareness : Strong understanding of project economics, resource utilization, and the need to maintain profitability and efficiency within the BU.

- Sustained Coding/Architecting Experience : Must maintain current, demonstrable hands-on expertise in the core tech stack (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js, and Cloud-Native platforms).

Tech Superpowers :

- Core Modern Engineering Mastery : Expert in managing development on Cloud-Native and API-First architectures (Microservices, Containers, Serverless), with proven personal capability to code and deploy.

- DevOps & MLOps Fluency : Highly proficient in managing and automating CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).

- Technical Problem Solver : Possesses the deep technical depth required to troubleshoot critical production issues and make rapid, informed decisions under pressure.

- Pragmatic Tool Picker : Makes technology choices based on scalability and velocity, balancing the latest tech trends with operational stability and cost efficiency.

Experience & Relevance :

- Technical Experience : 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a Lead Developer or Team Lead role overseeing project delivery.

- Hands-on Credibility : Must have demonstrable evidence of recent architectural design work and coding contributions (e.g., in a Principal Engineer or Architect capacity) prior to or concurrent with management responsibilities.

- Domain Focus : Prior experience delivering projects focused on digital transformation, data intelligence, or applied AI/ML solutions.

- Management Credentials : Certified in Scrum/Agile practices (e.g., PSM, CSM).

- Cultural Fit : A demonstrable history of mentorship, ownership, and contribution to a positive, high-performance team culture.