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We are a Google Cloud Premier Partner, a Looker Delivery-Verified Partner, and an Elastic Professional Services partner - combining deep platform expertise with senior-led delivery for ISVs, SaaS companies, and enterprises across the US and India.\nWe are not a staffing shop. We are a boutique that builds - production data platforms, agentic AI products, and observability systems that go live and stay live. Our engineers work directly with client architects and CTOs.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a multi-pod team of senior engineers across our cloud, data, and AI/ML practices. You will own delivery quality, engineering health, and people growth across two to four concurrent client engagements - typically a mix of GCP data platform builds, Looker/BI migrations, Elasticsearch/observability work, and our internal agentic AI products (Conversational BI, AIResolveX, Agentic QA).\nThis is a hands-on leadership role. You will not write production code every day, but you will read PRs, sit in architecture reviews, unblock debugging sessions, and coach senior engineers through hard technical decisions. You are the person clients escalate to when something is on fire, and the person engineers go to when they need air cover.\nWhat You Will Own\nDelivery\nLead 15-25 engineers across 2-4 concurrent engagements, balancing client commitments with engineer growth and bench utilization.\n\nRun weekly delivery reviews using our engineering cockpit metrics across Delivery, Quality, and Health pillars (velocity, escape rate, on-call load, MTTR, engagement scores).\n\nOwn SOW-to-go-live execution: scoping inputs, milestone plans, risk registers, change orders, and stakeholder communication with client engineering leadership.\n\nPartner with Pre-Sales on technical scoping for prospective deals - sizing, staffing models, and risk flags before SOWs go out.\n\nQuality\nSet and enforce the engineering bar across pods: code review standards, testing coverage, observability defaults, and production readiness checklists.\n\nSign off on architecture decisions for net-new builds and migrations (BigQuery data platforms, Looker/LookML semantic models, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch clusters, Vertex AI agent deployments).\n\nDrive root-cause analysis for client incidents and internal escapes; ensure learnings flow back into our playbooks and accelerators (T2L, M2L, P2L, C2L).\n\nPeople & Engineering Health\nDirect people management for 8-12 senior engineers and tech leads: 1:1s, KRAs, performance calibration, promotion cases, and growth planning.\n\nHire and ramp senior engineers - own the technical bar in interviews and the first-90-days experience.\n\nChampion engineering culture: internal tech talks, RocketOne.AI bootcamps, Claude Code adoption, and the AI Playbook rollout across the org.\n\nWhat You Need to Have\n8+ years building and operating production software, with at least 3 years managing engineers (mix of IC and management is fine, but you must have managed).\n\nHands-on technical depth in at least two of: Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE/Kubernetes, Vertex AI), Looker/LookML, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, modern data engineering (Airflow/Dataflow/dbt), or production AI/ML systems.\n\nWorking fluency with container and deployment patterns on GCP - Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud Run, and serverless - and the judgement to push back when a team picks the wrong one.\n\nTrack record of shipping client engagements end-to-end - you have signed off on production go-lives and owned post-launch outcomes, not just sprint outputs.\n\nStrong written communication. You can write a clean status update, a defensible architecture rationale, and a hard email to a client when scope is creeping.\n\nComfortable in ambiguity. Consulting work changes weekly - you should be energised, not destabilised, by replanning.\n\nBonus Points For\nDirect experience with agentic AI patterns: tool-use, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, or building on Anthropic / Google ADK / OpenRouter.\n\nBackground in BI migrations (Tableau, MicroStrategy, Cognos, or Power BI to Looker).\n\nObservability or SIEM delivery experience on the Elastic Stack.\n\nPrior consulting or services-firm experience - you understand utilisation, T&M vs fixed-bid economics, and the texture of client politics.\n\nWhy This Role Is Worth Your Time\nReal scope. You will lead delivery across multiple Fortune 500 and growth-stage clients in parallel - not a single product team.\n\nSenior peers. Our engineers are senior by default; you are managing experts, not ramping juniors.\n\nAI is not a side project here. Our internal product portfolio (Conversational BI, AIResolveX, Agentic QA) ships to real users, and you will help shape it.\n\nDirect line to the Director of Engineering and the founders. 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