Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Company Info:

TVS Digital is a digital technology start-up focused on the Fintech & Automotive industry with platforms and services offerings in the Credit & Collection Services and Automotive & Retail domain. We provide IT Services to accelerate digital transformation by partnering with industry renowned platforms (Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP) & help to develop centre of excellence for our customers. TVS Digital’s mission is to build & deliver high quality software solutions & services to help address real life business challenges of global companies in these domains by harnessing the power of Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML). Our strategy is to leverage inorganic and organic means for the initial build out and subsequent expansion and growth. TVS Digital is a part of TVS Holdings and has also currently invested in several early-stage high tech start-ups globally in areas of connected manufacturing, fleet management and credit services.

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Core Responsibilities:

• Design and oversee the implementation of scalable and robust software solutions.
• Work with Delivery leads and ensure timely delivery of projects while maintaining high standards of code quality and performance.
• Analyze functional requirements and technical specifications to create clear architecture and actionable solutions for engineering team to implement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and technical strategy.
• Develop comprehensive architectural solutions that serve as blueprints for system development.
• Provide technical leadership and support to Engineering and Support teams.
• Define process for all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• Oversee progress of engineering team to ensure consistency with architecture.
• Document all architectural designs and analysis for future reference.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies and trends to ensure solutions are current and competitive.
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
• Implement best practices which helps in better maintainability of the application.

Team Management Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers across various IT and software development projects
• Communicate status of architecture solutions and reports up the management chain
• Provide consistent team goals & objectives
• Continually seek to identify, remove impediments to progress and success
• Provide guidance and direction to all members of the Agile teams
• Provide mentoring and career development to individual team members of every discipline and experience level
• Champion initiatives to consistently improve architecture skills of engineering teams

Required Skills:

• Experience with event-driven architecture and enabling technologies such as Kafka or other JMS-based message/event brokers.
• Experience in deploying Modern Server Frameworks such as Node or Spring Boot, Java
• Expertise in Modern Web UI Frameworks such as Angular or React
• Expertise in Microservices design and architecture
• Knowledge of REST APIs established best practices
• Knowledge of Design Principles and Patterns
• Practical experience with unit testing
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders(very important).
• Excellent knowledge cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, GCP
• Excellent knowledge in databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Experience in building platforms rather than building point solutions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Software Architect or similar role.
• 15+ years of experience within software engineering and 5+ years of experience in Software Architecture with building omnichannel, microservices based architecture
• Prior experience in building enterprise scale Web & Mobile Applications.
• Experience in building generalised, parameterised and configuration driven system that can cater to more than one use case.