Engineering Manager
First seen by Alion on Sep 9, 2026.
Role & responsibilities :
- Lead and propose necessary processes to ensure a structured and predictable approach to software Engineering.
- Define and drive the technical strategy and development methodology.
- Plan and execute strategies for completing projects on time and implement a system for monitoring and tracking project progress.
- Balance creating and repaying technical debt and developing new features and use technology and automation to help manage technical debt.
- Collaborate with organizational leadership to develop an annual budget for the engineering department, assess the tools and technologies required for efficient project development, regularly assess the effectiveness of budget allocations, and work with leadership to allocate budgets for tools, training, and staffing needed to support.
- Set clear expectations, goals, and objectives for each team, ensure a balanced distribution of work among teams to optimize productivity, encourage collaboration between teams to promote knowledge sharing and cross-functional problem-solving, and implement performance metrics to monitor the progress of each team.
- Organize team-building activities that involve both your internal team and the vendor's team, which could include workshops, training sessions, or even informal gathering.
- Evaluate how emerging technologies could impact the team's skill requirements and project outcomes, identify any gaps between the existing skills and those required to meet current or future project needs, and determine the need for training and talent development.
- Delegate technical decisions to your senior engineers but ask the right questions to ensure that the product is scalable, secure, and reliable.
- Bridge the gap between product management and engineering team by facilitating necessary interaction.
- Anticipate and identify potential risks associated with the technical strategy, including technological challenges, resource constraints, and market changes, and develop mitigation plans to address identified risks, ensuring that the technical strategy remains resilient and adaptable.
- Evaluate, select, and implement monitoring tools and systems to enhance the observability of the engineering infrastructure and set up effective alerting and notification systems to promptly respond to any anomalies or critical events, ensuring a proactive approach to system health.
- Establishing Support Processes : Define and implement robust support processes to ensure timely and effective resolution of incidents and customer issues.
Preferred candidate profile :
- Candidates with good experience with SDLC.
- Minimum 6+ years of hard-core coding experience is mandatory.
- Excellent hands-on experience in coding in Python, AWS/Microservices will be added advantage.
- Good to have front-end framework knowledge like REACT/Angular.
- Over all 9 - 13 years experience is mandatory.
- Mandatory 2+ years of people management experience required.
Skills
Engineering Management, Python, AWS, Microservices Architecture, IT Strategy, SDLC