Sr. Engineering Manager (OpenBlue Data Platform)

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