Engineering Manager

Company: Careernet
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Business Type: Enterprise
Company Type: Product
Business Model: B2B
Funding Stage: Private Equity
Industry: Healthcare
Salary Range: ₹ 45-70 Lacs PA
Job Description
This is a Permanent role with one Healthcare Product client of Careernet Technologies.
Senior Manager – Software Engineering
Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior Manager – Software Engineering to lead and scale high-performing software engineering teams within Ensemble Health Partners India. This role will be responsible for driving execution excellence, strengthening engineering practices, improving platform reliability, and supporting technology strategy across multiple product engineering teams.
The Senior Manager will work closely with Engineering Directors, Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, Security, Data, and business stakeholders to translate business priorities into scalable, secure, and high-quality technology solutions. The role requires a strong balance of technical depth, people leadership, delivery ownership, and operational discipline.
This position is expected to operate with a higher level of ownership than an Engineering Manager and actively support Director-level responsibilities across planning, execution, engineering governance, talent development, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
Engineering Leadership & Technical Execution
Lead software engineering team responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining enterprise-grade applications and platforms.
Partner with stake holders to execute the product engineering roadmap aligned with platform, and business priorities.
Provide technical direction across application design, architecture reviews, reusable components, engineering standards, and solution delivery.
Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, performant, maintainable, and aligned with modern engineering practices.
Drive adoption of cloud-native design, API-first development, microservices, event-driven patterns, and modern .NET engineering practices where applicable.
Delivery Excellence & Operational Ownership
Own end-to-end delivery outcomes for assigned engineering teams, including planning, execution, dependency management, risk identification, and release readiness.
Establish predictable delivery practices through strong sprint planning, capacity management, estimation discipline, and execution tracking.
Ensure teams maintain high standards for delivery quality, production readiness, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Partner with DevOps, Platform, and Architecture teams to improve CI/CD maturity, deployment reliability, observability, and operational stability.
Drive engineering accountability for SLAs, performance, scalability, availability, and cost optimization.
Quality, Security & Engineering Practices
Champion engineering excellence across teams by promoting code quality, design reviews, automated testing, secure coding, and maintainable architecture.
Drive proactive identification and remediation of technical debt, performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and reliability gaps.
Support compliance with healthcare technology security, privacy, and regulatory expectations.
Encourage responsible use of modern engineering productivity tools, including AI-assisted coding and automation, to improve developer efficiency and quality.
People Leadership & Talent Development
Manage and develop engineering leads, senior engineers, and high-performing engineering teams.
Build a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, succession planning, and leadership development for engineering talent.
Coach managers and technical leaders

Work arrangement
Hybrid