Engineering Group Manager -Embedded AUTOSAR–Work Time - 6 PM to 3 AM

Overview

Lead an embedded software engineering group accountable for delivery outcomes, roadmap commitments, team capacity, risks and dependencies, and team health on platform initiatives.

What you'll do

• Own business milestone objectives and business value commitments.
• Track predictability metrics (planned vs. actual feature/business value completion, burn-up/down) and provide stakeholder communication.
• Allocate team capacity across features, defects and triage, technical debt, and improvement work.
• Manage team and SOW budget in alignment with company forecasting process and financial best practices, pass financial gates and integrate in company tools.
• Govern team feature progress across business milestones and ensure roadmap alignment and incremental value delivery for platform initiatives.
• Proactively manage systemic risks and unknowns, maintain buffers for emergent work, define change control for milestone scope changes, and handle dependency-driven surprises.
• Present all risks and blockers together with actionable mitigation paths to enable stakeholder decisions.
• Engage technical leaders inside and outside the team to safeguard delivery commitments and reduce delivery risks.
• Identify and manage team milestone dependencies, maintaining visibility, escalation paths, stakeholder reporting and handshake agreements.
• Drive systemic improvements and lessons learnt from previous milestones and projects.
• Ensure quality gates for feature completion, monitor defect trends, and maintain compliance with processes and standards.
• Apply strong technical judgment to ensure engineering quality, de-risk delivery, and drive continuous improvement.
• Retain responsibility for team health, including hiring input, onboarding, coaching for delivery performance, evaluating and managing people performance, rewarding and promoting team members, and escalating retention risks.
• Act as a technical coach who fosters engineering best practices, challenges technical decisions when necessary, and enables teams and technical leaders to grow their technical competencies.

What you'll need

• Proven experience leading an engineering team with accountability for delivery outcomes and roadmap commitments.
• Extensive experience in software development, embedded systems, and software architecture, including design and delivery of complex software products and platforms.
• Proven experience defining and implementing software architecture in complex product development environments.
• Strong people leadership: recruitment, coaching, performance management, succession planning.
• Minimum technical background and strong understanding of the relevant technical domain.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.
• Risk, dependency, and stakeholder management across complex matrix organizations.
• Financial acumen: capacity planning, budget/SOW governance, and resource forecasting.
• Ability to use delivery and quality dashboards to convey key messages and make decisions.
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including clear delivery status reporting and presenting risks with mitigation options.
• Courage to conduct critical conversations and to challenge scope, technical decisions, priorities, and trade-offs constructively.
• Ability to give developmental feedback.

Nice to have

• Experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers, multi-threaded software, and RTOS platforms (Linux, QNX, OSEK, or similar).
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, software interfaces, and system integration.
• Experience with architectural modeling tools (e.g., Enterprise Architect).
• Knowledge of automotive communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet).
• Experience in AUTOSAR and/or Service Oriented COM framework: Adaptive AUTOSAR/ROS/ROS2/DDS/SOMEIP.
• Knowledge of modern way of working and best practices in technology companies.

Details

• Work time: 6 PM to 3 AM.
• Location: Bangalore, India.