Engineering Manager - Software Systems

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. 

Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

What you’ll do

• People Leadership: Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Software Systems Engineers and a small team of Interaction/UI Designers in Bangalore. Manage performance, career development, and resource allocation. Build a culture of trust and inclusivity within your team. Bring people together by collaborating across organizations and ensuring a transparent, accountable work environment. Proactively identify and remove roadblocks to success. Support organizational change and maintain an open-door policy, willing to listen to and implement new ideas.
• Competency Building: Strengthen the Systems Engineering competency in GSS by striving for continuous improvement, demonstrating initiative, and inspiring the team through innovation and creativity in collaboration with software systems competency leader.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance to software systems engineers in eliciting, decomposing, and managing complex technical requirements for IoT and access control products.
• Design Integration: Oversee the UI/UX design workflow, ensuring seamless collaboration between designers and software systems engineers to deliver intuitive and technically sound user interfaces. Driving design to code approach using AI.
• Project Oversight: Coach team on Technical Design Reviews, identify program risks, and lead the definition of Operations Concepts and review ICD’s (Interface control documents)
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner with product management, architecture, and security teams to provide high-level estimates and inform business decisions.
• Scope Management: Lead the management of technical scope throughout the entire development lifecycle.

What we are looking for

• Proven Leadership: Demonstrated experience in people management, including hiring, mentoring, and developing technical talent.
• Domain Expertise: At least 8 years ’ experience in IoT devices, access control, or similar complex industries (Automotive, Aerospace, Medical).
• Systems Mastery: Deep experience in Systems Engineering processes (design by requirements, traceability, V&V).
• Design Literacy: Ability to manage and provide direction to Interaction and UI Designers, understanding how design impacts system architecture.
• Project Management: Strong skills in planning, stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and change management.
• Communication: Ability to bridge the gap between business leaders, technical engineers, and creative designers.

Experience ​

• 15 to 20 Years of industry experience and 5+ years in Software Systems Engineering.

We Celebrate Who We Are! 

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.   We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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