Senior Manager (software Engineering)

Guidewire Software

Bangalore, India
On-site
People leadership and organizational excellence
Technical direction across saas and platform services
Resilient, scalable cloud platform capabilities
As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will be a key leader within the Application Platform organization, accountable for building and leading a high-performing Platform Engineering POD

Job Summary

  • As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will be a key leader within the Application Platform organization, accountable for building and leading a high-performing Platform Engineering POD.
  • You will focus on people leadership and organizational excellence while guiding technical direction across SaaS and platform services.
  • Your leadership will be critical to ensuring our platform is reliable, secure, and a great experience for both developers and customers.

Matching Summary

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will be a key leader within the Application Platform organization, accountable for building and leading a high-performing Platform Engineering POD.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • people leadership and organizational excellence
  • technical direction across SaaS and platform services
  • resilient, scalable cloud platform capabilities
  • developer productivity and a rich partner ecosystem
  • engineering best practices (API-first, TDD, BDD, GitOps, observability)
  • SaaS architectures on public cloud (AWS)
  • CI/CD and platform tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, OpenShift)

Nice-to-have

  • AI and automation to improve productivity
  • calm, pragmatic leadership style under pressure
  • strong bias for action and continuous improvement

Key Requirements

  • 15+ years of software development experience
  • 6-8+ years of people management experience
  • Proven experience leading an entire Platform Engineering POD
  • Hands-on programming experience in Java/Go/Python
  • Deep understanding of SaaS architectures on public cloud (preferably AWS)
  • Strong experience with CI/CD and platform tooling
  • Solid understanding of system design and distributed systems

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