Sr. Engineering Manager (OpenBlue Data Platform)
Johnson Controls Pune, Maharashtra, India
Industrial Machinery Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Lead engineering delivery for the OpenBlue data platform, managing a multi-level organization of managers, leads, and individual contributors. Drive major engineering initiatives, platform migrations, and ensure the stability and quality of releases through effective project management.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with over 10 years of software engineering experience. Candidates must have at least 3 years of experience managing managers and leads, along with strong expertise in large-scale data platforms and event-driven architectures.
Full description
Sr. Engineering Manager – OpenBlue Data Platform
Location: Pune, India
Summary
Lead engineering delivery for a core part of OpenBlue's data platform, spanning platform development, migrations, data unification efforts, and ongoing stability and quality work. Manage a multi-level org of managers, leads, and ICs across dev and QA, and coordinate closely with other engineering pods to keep releases on track.
Responsibilities
- Manage and develop a multi-level engineering org (Eng Managers, Tech Leads, Developers, Test Engineers)
- Drive major engineering initiatives and platform migrations
- Own sprint delivery, testing support, and production deployment cadence
- Manage project plans, timelines, and dependencies across workstreams
- Partner with product/architecture on technical roadmap
- Manage performance, career growth, hiring, and staffing across the team
- Report status/risks to leadership and cross-team stakeholders
- Coordinate with QA leads on defect burn-down and release quality
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 10+ yrs software engineering, 3+ yrs managing managers/leads
- Experience with large-scale data platform initiatives (cloud data warehousing, Iceberg/Snowflake/Postgres)
- Experience with event driven architecture
- Experience with Kafka, SNS/SQS, Event Hubs or other message brokers
- General familiarity with Java, .NET, JavaScript, and React
- Strong grasp of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and sprint-based delivery
- Track record leading on-site engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder management with US+UK-based leadership
- Strong written and verbal English proficiency
- Experience with observability and production support (monitoring, alerting, on-call)
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale system consolidation or platform unification projects
- Experience with API commercialization
- Background in IoT/building-management
- Frontend/fullstack development experience
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