Engineering Manager

Scope

• Looking for an Engineering manager for our supply chain execution product suite
• Engineering Manager’s responsibilities include driving the product development team towards a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product, detecting and mitigating various risks and challenges throughout the development, ensuring that the software is developed with all non-functional requirements (such as security, performance, documentation, scalability and reliability) and representing the product as well as roadmap within the company and to the customers.
• The Engineering manager’s role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal engineering manager assures on-time delivery of both functional and non-functional requirements with best quality, before product launches to ensure that the software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end leadership on software development, we’d like to meet you.
• The team currently comprises of 20+ global associates across US and India (COE) and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team

Technical Environment

• Software: Java, Springboot, Gradle, GIT
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Event Hub, Azure AD, etc.)
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, NOSQL

What you’ll do

• Leading a software development project through a team of developers, architects and testers, ensuring that the software addresses all functional and non-functional requirements
• Demonstrate expertise in relevant technologies, platforms, products, architecture and tools
• Explore, analyse and recommend new tools and technologies for product development, along with an enterprise architect
• Identify the reusable components and ensure the usage of the same through design
• Plan release delivery schedule, monitor progress, and report status to stakeholders. Facilitate cross-team communication on reporting progress and resolving impediments. Identify risks, define mitigation plans and communicate the plans in a timely manner.
• Work with senior product manager and engineering leaders to estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate product development activities, considering resources and skills
• Coordinate availability of development environments and tools
• Ensure supporting project documentation is in order and submitted in a timely manner
• Ensure development processes and quality standards are adhered.
• Provide guidance, feedback, coaching, and developmental experiences to the team.
• Provide feedback to team on career path and guides them in continuous development and learning. Conduct appraisals, provide feedback, and handle work allocations for direct reports, and approve the same for indirect reports.
• Recommend and improve automation frameworks and help team design, develop and execute automation scripts using right tools
• Apply domain concepts into the solution and product area

What we are looking for

• BTech/BS/MTech/MS degree in Engineering or a related subject 
• Proven work experience in software development as a lead and manager
• Experience of 10-12 years in software industry 
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, automation, tools and processes
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum based product development organization
• Experience in providing clear and concise status of a product development project
• Strong programming experience and background in Enterprise Java
• Demonstrable experience with designing, deploying and maintaining enterprise cloud solutions (preferably Azure)
• Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture
• Experience with implementation of event driven architecture using Kafka or similar technologies 
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture and design experience
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in cloud native architecture, distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and scalability, performance, disaster recovery and high availability
• Experience with DevOps, API Management including identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation
• Good understanding of secure architectures and configurations

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

Diversity, Inclusion, Value & Equity (DIVE) is our strategy for fostering an inclusive environment we can be proud of. Check out Blue Yonder's inaugural Diversity Report which outlines our commitment to change, and our video celebrating the differences in all of us in the words of some of our associates from around the world.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.