Sr. Engineering Manager (OpenBlue Data Platform)

Job 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