Senior Manager - Engineering
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Senior Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams to deliver high-quality digital products and enterprise platforms using Agile practices. They are responsible for defining engineering standards, managing vendor relationships, and driving data-driven decision-making through performance metrics.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 8-10 years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership with a strong background in web, mobile, and cloud-native development. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required, along with expertise in modern frameworks and AWS cloud services.
Full description
Responsibilities & Key Deliverables
- Own and manage the engineering delivery of digital products, customer-facing applications, and enterprise technology platforms.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, technical leads, and architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and accountability.
- Drive Agile delivery practices across engineering teams and ensure effective sprint planning, execution, release management, and continuous improvement.
- Build and develop high-performing engineering teams through coaching, mentoring, and structured career development initiatives.
- Manage vendor and partner relationships, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and technology standards.
- Establish engineering performance dashboards and track key delivery metrics, quality metrics, productivity indicators, system reliability, and customer experience measures to drive data-driven decision making.
- Manage complexity with a logical, analytical, and outcome-oriented approach.
- Build succession plans and strengthen technology capabilities within the engineering organization.
Experience
- 8-10 years of experience in software engineering, application development, and technology leadership roles.
- Proven experience leading and managing teams of software engineers, technical leads, architects, and engineering managers.
- Strong hands-on experience in web and mobile application development across the full software development lifecycle.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-grade digital platforms, customer-facing applications, and API-driven solutions.
Industry Preferred
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Relevant certifications in AWS, Cloud Architecture, Application Security, Agile Delivery, or Enterprise Architecture will be an added advantage.
General Requirements
- Provide technical leadership across web, mobile, API, and cloud-native application ecosystems.
- Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, code quality initiatives, and engineering best practices.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
- Possess strong hands-on experience in enterprise-scale application development using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, React, Angular, Node.js, Python, Flutter, React Native, Android, iOS, and modern API frameworks.
- Possess strong expertise in AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture, including scalability, resilience, security, observability, and cost optimization.
- Drive adoption of cloud engineering best practices leveraging AWS services for compute, storage, networking, containers, serverless computing, monitoring, and security.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, microservices, containerization, and cloud technologies.
- Ensure applications are designed and developed with security, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and performance as key principles.
- Define engineering standards, coding guidelines, architecture principles, and governance frameworks across delivery teams.
- Define and monitor key engineering and operational metrics including application availability, performance, release frequency, deployment success rate, defect leakage, incident trends, and service reliability.
- Ensure effective implementation of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices across all applications and platforms.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At Mahindra and Mahindra Limited, we believe that diversity drives innovation, and inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to cultivating a workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, caste, race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender identity, nationality, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, educational background, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy or childbirth, veteran status, citizenship status, ancestry, financial status, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law.
We actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and bring their unique perspectives to our teams. We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive experience for all applicants.
Together, we rise by embracing differences and building a future that reflects the communities we serve.
