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
