Senior Manager, IT Engineering

Job description

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.   Who are we?   Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!   Function Digital Workplace Solutions Role family M365 Productivity / Enterprise Collaboration / Low-Code and AI Enablement Location Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Reporting line Director, Digital Workplace Solutions Employment type Full-time     Position Summary The Technology Lead, Power Platform & Microsoft 365 Productivity Solutions is accountable for the strategy, architecture, governance, adoption and operational excellence of enterprise productivity platforms. The role owns Power Platform as the primary workstream, including Microsoft Copilot, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and Copilot Studio, while providing technical leadership and operational oversight for the secondary Microsoft 365 workstream comprising Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams. The position combines hands-on technology leadership with people management, stakeholder partnership, service ownership and measurable business-value delivery. Key Responsibilities Power Platform and Copilot Service Ownership (Primary)  • Own the enterprise roadmap, target architecture, operating model and service lifecycle for Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot capabilities.  • Define and maintain architecture standards, environment strategy, platform guardrails, ownership models and governance controls.  • Lead Power Platform Centre of Excellence maturity, including DLP policies, connector controls, Dataverse capacity, Managed Environments, platform hygiene and inventory oversight.  • Govern application, flow, agent and automation lifecycles from demand intake and design assurance through release, adoption, support and retirement.  • Establish enterprise application lifecycle management practices, including solution packaging, version control, pipelines, release controls and rollback readiness.  • Lead controlled Copilot and Copilot Studio enablement through use-case intake, technical fitment, proof-of-concept validation, production-readiness review, agent lifecycle management and responsible AI guardrails.  • Promote citizen-developer enablement through standards, reusable components, templates, learning pathways, office hours and a governed maker community.  • Drive automation opportunities to improve employee productivity, reduce manual effort and create measurable business value.  • Review and approve solution designs, architecture decisions, integration patterns and production releases.  • Monitor adoption, usage, AI credit consumption, capacity, licensing and cost optimisation, and provide chargeback or show back inputs where applicable.  Microsoft 365 Platform Leadership (Secondary)  • Provide technical leadership and service ownership oversight for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams.  • Guide L2 and L3 support teams on complex incidents, recurring problems, service improvements and cross-workload dependencies.  • Define standards for communication, collaboration, content management, sharing, lifecycle management and operational support.  • Ensure platform capabilities align with business, security, compliance, reliability and user-experience requirements.  • Track Microsoft roadmap changes, Message Centre updates, service health, feature retirements and sunset announcements, and coordinate readiness and mitigation actions.  • Support migrations, tenant consolidations, integrations and business-transformation initiatives where required.  • Drive automation of administration, provisioning, reporting and operational controls using Power Platform, PowerShell, Microsoft Graph and approved APIs.  People Management and Team Leadership  • Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of platform engineers, administrators, developers and specialists.  • Translate the Digital Work