Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform

Your Impact

• Manage high-performing teams of 9+ engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery.
• Manage managers.
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions.
• Establish best engineering practices and operational excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics.
• Interact with other Illumio engineering teams for getting and sharing expertise, as well as aligning on dependencies and deliverables.
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions within the established architectural guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products.
• Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.
• Participating in organizational events like hackathon/demo days etc.
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
• Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow.

Your Toolkit

• 6+ years' experience in building products with a focus on cloud-based high-performance systems.
• 7+ years' experience in leading and managing high performance teams.
• Have led a team of 9+ engineers/managers and owned accountability of E2E delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder and program management.
• Extensive experience building distributed systems and cloud services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Python.
• Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP.
• Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery, RedShift.
• Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs).
• Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years.
• Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Good knowledge and experience with developing REST based APIs and integrations.
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit/Spock/Jest etc) and code quality control platforms.
• Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Well versed with Agile (Scrum) methodology.