Senior Program Manager

HCLTech • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • Go • Java • Kotlin • 4 hours ago

Smart Apply

Similar jobs

1,533,398open jobs

91,890companies

234,995added this week

Browse all

Salary

≈ $67k – $126k per year (Estimated)

Location

In office (Amsterdam)

Seniority

Senior · 15+ years exp

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026.

Overview

Company

Impact

Profile match

HCLTech

HCLTech is a major Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Spun off from the original HCL Group in 1991, it ranks as one of India's largest technology companies alongside firms like TCS, Infosys, and Wipro.

hcltech.com • HQ: Noida, India • Systems Integrators • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • 5000+ employees • Est. 1976

Tech stack of HCLTech

Job Summary

Organization is partnering with a leading retail enterprise to re-architect its core platform from a legacy system to a cloud-native, microservices-based ecosystem on GCP/Ali cloud/on-prem. The Engineering Manager will be the technical and people anchor for this multi-squad delivery, owning end-to-end execution from design to production. He should have experience with retail or e-commerce platform modernization

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Excellence

Define and enforce Dev & QE best practices across squads
Own Tech Design and Implementation approach
Establish and operate DevOps pipelines and practices
Drive AI enablement across engineering workflows

Delivery & Execution

Accountable for overall Sprint Execution and capacity planning
Facilitate and unblock work across all Engineering Leads
Manage RAAIDD - with emphasis on unblocking technical dependencies
Coordinate Release management in collaboration with the client
Drive Go/No-Go decisions collaboratively with client’s stakeholders
Own Production Cutover strategy and facilitation

Agile & Ceremonies

Champion and embed Agile Ways of Working across teams
Manage sprint estimations, velocity tracking, and capacity accountability
Track all standard Agile/Scrum metrics and component KPIs

People & Resources

People management - performance, growth, and engagement
Assess resource requirements and skill sets; flag gaps proactively
Act as closest leadership touchpoint to Squads, ELs, and engineers

Governance & Financials

Manage tech costs and drive platform/people cost optimisation
Measure and report on Delivery, Quality, Time, Cost, and Scope metrics
Lead Change Request impact assessments
Align dependencies across squads and external teams

Stakeholder Collaboration (Amigos Model)

Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Data Architecture, PM, EL, QA, Legacy Team, and BAs
Operate at multi-squad level bridging Engineering and Delivery roles

Skill Requirements

Demonstrated ability to manage hiring, performance, and career development for distributed engineering teams.
Excellent stakeholder communication - able to translate technical complexity into clear business language.
Strong agile practitioner; experience with SAFe or LeSS in large program contexts is a plus.
15+ years of software engineering experience;
Deep expertise in microservices architecture and event-driven systems (Apache Kafka, Solace, AWS MSK, or equivalent).
Hands-on cloud experience on GCP/Ali cloud and their services.
Strong foundation in Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot for backend systems.
Proven track record delivering CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a production environment.
Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
Database proficiency: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent; awareness of NoSQL and caching patterns (Redis/ElastiCache).
Familiarity with API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and integration patterns (ESB migration, strangler fig).