Antares Solutions

Senior Engineering Manager — Jaipur, India (On-site) Location: Jaipur, India Employment type: Full-time Reports to: CTO (Australia) About Antares Established in 2006, Antares Solutions is a highly successful and profitable professional services organisation based in Sydney, Australia, with a strong customer focus and an experienced team of consultants. Antares is now on a new venture to develop and build products for its clients in Australia and globally. As a highly regarded Microsoft Partner, Antares primarily delivers solutions in Modern Work, Data and AI, and Application Development. The Role We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to found and lead our Jaipur office. You will balance technical delivery with team and operational leadership: contributing to architecture and code, while hiring, mentoring and establishing engineering processes and local operations. You will partner closely with product, consulting and architecture teams in Australia and act as a trusted technical advisor to onshore team and our clients. What You’ll Do Technical leadership and delivery Lead design and development of scalable SaaS/PaaS products on Microsoft Azure using .NET, React and Power BI as required. Drive code quality, performance, security and observability best practices. Make and document architectural decisions, patterns and engineering standards in consultation with the onshore team. Client engagement and pre-sales Collaborate with onshore architects and consultants to translate business needs into technical solutions. Lead solution design sessions and technical workshops. People leadership and team building Hire, mentor and coach engineers; develop career pathways and a growth-oriented culture. Establish and own engineering processes: agile ceremonies, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, testing and monitoring. Establishing the Jaipur office Set up local engineering operations including hiring and onboarding staff. Partner with the Australia head office on HR, legal and administrative processes. Champion Antares’ culture and collaboration practices across locations. Innovation and continuous improvement Stay current with Microsoft cloud technologies, AI/ML capabilities and frontend frameworks, and drive adoption of appropriate technologies. Promote best practices, platform reliability and engineering excellence across the team. About You • Proven experience developing and delivering .NET applications on Microsoft Azure (3–8+ years preferred). • Strong frontend experience with React or Angular; interest in AI enabled applications and modern web architectures. • Demonstrated experience across full project lifecycle: presales, design, implementation and delivery. • Prior experience leading, mentoring or hiring engineering teams, or clear potential to grow into an effective people manager. • Excellent communication skills — able to present technical concepts clearly to stakeholders across time zones and cultures. • Strong problem-solving skills and pragmatic decision-making in ambiguous environments. • Experience working with onshore distributed teams and cross-cultural collaboration. • Familiarity with Microsoft technologies – M365, Graph, Teams, Power Platform and other Azure services App Services, Functions, AKS, SQL/Cosmos DB, DevOps pipelines is highly regarded. • Experience setting up or scaling teams or offices, including hiring and operational setup, is a strong advantage.