Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Supply Chain Engineering Leadership

Role at a glance :

Job title : Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Job family : Software Engineering

Team : Retail Technology - Supply Chain Engineering

Location : DLF Downtown, Taramani, Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600113, India (hybrid; onsite cadence to be confirmed)

Experience : 10 - 12 years

Shift (IST) : 2:00 - 11:00 PM

People management : Yes

About the role :

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to be the hands-on technical leader of a flexible supply-chain engineering team in Chennai. You will join the new India GCC and guide engineers across Java, .NET and other technologies as the team moves across supply-chain business needs, working directly with US teammates.

This is a techno functional role and not a pure people manager. The balance is roughly 75% technical leadership - reviewing architecture and code and guiding engineering decisions - and 25% delivery and people management.

What you will do :

Delivery & Execution :

- Lead planning, delivery, and operational performance for software engineering.

- Guide a team responsible for application design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and modernization.

- Translate priorities into roadmaps, plans, backlogs, and measurable outcomes.

- Reinforce quality, architecture, security, privacy, compliance, and operational standards.

- Manage capacity, delivery risks, dependencies, budgets, and vendors as applicable.

- Use metrics to improve quality, speed, reliability, cost, and stakeholder value.

- Review architecture across infrastructure and application code; read and challenge complex logic, guide code reviews and engineering decisions.

- Guide engineers working across different technologies without needing deep expertise in every stack.

Support & Enablement :

- Lead, coach, and develop team members; support hiring, performance, and talent processes.

- Build strong partnerships across business, product, architecture, security, data, and technology teams.

- Communicate priorities, progress, risks, and decisions clearly.

- Create an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing team environment.

- Support local delivery and cross-stack coordination, flexibly deploying the team's skills across supply-chain business needs.

Basic qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Business, or a related discipline

- 10 to 12 years of relevant experience in software engineering or a closely related discipline

- Experience with application design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and modernization

- Experience leading teams, workstreams, programs, or technology delivery in a complex organization

- Knowledge of programming languages, APIs, cloud platforms, databases, CI/CD, testing, and secure software development

- Experience collaborating across business and technology teams

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills

- Expert, current engineering background in Java or Microsoft C#/.NET, with the ability to read and debug logic across other technologies

- Personally owned architecture or code review decisions and led engineers through technical challenges

- Concrete experience combining technical leadership with delivery management, beyond management-only roles

Preferred qualifications :

- Master's degree in a related technical or business field is preferred

- Advanced knowledge of programming languages, APIs, cloud platforms, databases, CI/CD, testing, and secure software development

- Experience with enterprise-scale cloud, data, digital, retail, pharmacy, healthcare, or customer technology environments

- Experience working with global teams, managed service partners, or distributed delivery models

- Relevant industry, cloud, agile, product, architecture, data, security, design, or technology certifications are preferred

- Supply-chain, warehouse management (WMS) or transportation management (TMS) experience

- Experience with legacy applications and Azure-based integrations

Other details :

- Supervisory responsibilities : Yes, including hiring, performance, scheduling and team development.

- Travel : Up to 5%, based on business needs.