Job Title:  Executive Manager | Delivery Manager | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

A Day in the Life

In this role, you will lead multiple engineering PODs delivering high-impact platform capabilities across Rental and Digital ecosystems. Your day will involve balancing strategic leadership with execution oversight, ensuring teams are aligned to both long-term architectural goals and near-term delivery commitments.

You will collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, and Operations leaders to evolve systems supporting end-to-end rental workflows, counter operations, customer journeys, and mobile experiences. You will guide teams through complex decisions such as modernizing legacy systems, adopting microservices and event-driven patterns, and optimizing system performance at scale.

A significant part of your day will be spent mentoring engineering leaders, reviewing architectural decisions, resolving cross-team dependencies, and ensuring consistent adoption of best practices across cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability, and security.

You will also engage with executive stakeholders to provide visibility into delivery progress, risks, and investment priorities, while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across globally distributed teams.

Key Responsibilities:

·      Define and articulate a long-term technology vision and platform strategy aligned to business growth, operational scalability, and customer experience goals

·      Oversee multiple engineering domains (backend, frontend, mobile, QA, DevOps) ensuring alignment across RAC and/ or Digital platforms

·      Drive large-scale transformation initiatives including:

·      Legacy system modernization

·      Microservices and API adoption

·      Event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka)

·      Lead organizational design, hiring, and development of Senior Managers, Architects, and Tech Leads

·      Establish governance frameworks for:

·      Architecture standards

·      Security and compliance

·      Engineering quality and performance

·      Partner with Product and business stakeholders to define roadmaps for rental workflows, pricing systems, customer journeys, and mobile platforms

·      Own engineering KPIs including delivery velocity, system reliability, performance SLAs, and cost efficiency

·      Manage budgets, capacity planning, vendor relationships, and resource allocation

·      Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and engineering excellence

·      Represent engineering leadership in executive forums, customer discussions, and partner engagements

Required Skills & Qualifications:

·      Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field.

·      15+ years of combined technical and management experience building software and leading engineering organizations.

·      Deep intellectual curiosity about technologies across the stack; breadth of experience in backend, frontend, mobile, QA and DevOps practices.

·      Proven track record of setting strategy, driving execution and delivering complex programs at scale.

·      Exceptional people leadership, coaching and change management skills; demonstrated ability to inspire high performing teams.

·      Expert communication skills with ability to interface credibly at all levels of the business and with external partners.

·      Strong financial acumen and hands-on experience with budgeting, resource planning and P&L management (if applicable).

·      Experience in navigating risk, regulation and compliance environments applicable to technology and data.

·      Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and ethical engineering practices.