Engineering Manager

About the Company
Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. With 20+ years of specialization in product and platform engineering, Ness is a global leader in digital transformation. We design, build, & integrate digital platforms and enterprise software that help organizations to engage with customers, differentiate their brands, and drive profitable growth for them. Our experience designers, software engineers, data experts, and business consultants, partner with clients to develop roadmaps that identify ongoing opportunities to increase the value of their digital solutions and enterprise systems. The exciting work happens through 11 innovation hubs with 5000+ Nessians located across the globe.

Please visit our website www.ness.com and learn about our wonderful work.

We are inviting applications for Engineering Manager. In this role you would be working towards developing the organization’s strategy for using technological resources. Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and securely and evaluating and implementing new solutions.

Roles & Responsibility:
• Should have 14+ years of experience of working in product development organizations with a proven experience of developing enterprise scale products in a highly Agile/Scrum environment.
• Should be able to manage releases for products having multiple live versions and multiple releases through the year

• Ability to manage delivery with 20+ Engineers, including architecture, design, code reviews & peoples career management; with good exposure to engineering processes, product delivery, playbooks, frameworks etc.)
• Specific responsibilities include driving the team on innovation and implementation, creating and reviewing architectural designs, mentoring the team, and honing its engineering skills.
• Strong knowledge of Java-Spring based technical stack, databases (SQL Server, Oracle), modern JS frameworks like React, AWS cloud, design and architectural patterns and frameworks

• Good understanding of application Security, Performance & Quality, and DevOps process
• Very good knowledge of software development tools, patterns and processes (Agile principles, SCRUM, SAFe)
• Collaborate with architects, product management, and engineering teams to create solutions that increase the platform's value.
• Create technical specifications, prototypes, and presentations to communicate your ideas.
• Well-versed in emerging industry technologies and trends and the ability to communicate that knowledge to the team and influence product direction.
• Own progress of the product through the development life cycle, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring visibility to senior leadership.
• Partner with product management to define and refine our product road map, user experience, priorities, and schedule.
• Excellent Critical thinking, Analytical, problem solving & Solutioning skills with a customer first mindset.
Good to have:
• Highly motivated and has the ability to convert vague and ill-defined problems into well-defined problems, take initiative and encourage consensus building in the team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and articulation skills
• Demonstrable project management, stakeholder management and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to lead in a matrix environment.
• Strong interpersonal and talent management skills, including the ability to identify and develop product management talent.