Engineering Manager, AI Platforms & Architecture

Overview

Lead a team of engineers and technical leads responsible for architecting, developing, and supporting enterprise technology solutions across multiple platforms, with a focus on AI-enabled and cloud-based systems.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams by setting clear expectations, fostering career growth, and driving accountability for results.
• Provide strategic technical leadership and architectural direction for complex, enterprise-scale software and platform solutions.
• Drive the design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and support of secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions.
• Review and approve technical designs, architectural recommendations, and engineering deliverables to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives.
• Partner with business, product, UX, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver technology solutions that enhance user experience and operational efficiency.
• Lead resolution of complex technical challenges through root-cause analysis, risk mitigation, and proactive problem prevention.
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices, technical standards, governance processes, and software documentation frameworks.
• Guide the adoption of modern software engineering methodologies, development tools, automation, and cloud-native technologies.
• Drive API strategy and integration architecture to support secure and seamless data exchange across enterprise systems and applications.
• Ensure solutions comply with information security, privacy, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders, fostering continuous learning and technical excellence across the organization.
• Contribute to strategic technology roadmaps, architecture evolution, and long-term investment planning.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, development efficiency, and platform scalability.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, industry trends, AI innovations, and modern software architecture practices.
• Support organizational initiatives and perform additional duties as assigned.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of software engineering or technology experience with at least 5 years leading engineering teams and managers.
• Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale applications and technology platforms from concept through production.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, application engineering, and modern development practices.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and test automation.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization, and microservices architecture.
• Experience designing and integrating APIs and enterprise-scale software solutions.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Master's degree.
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams, technical leaders, or platform organizations.
• Strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and modern AI architectures.
• Experience building and scaling enterprise AI products, platforms, or developer enablement capabilities.
• Knowledge of AI governance, model risk management, Responsible AI, security, privacy, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with agentic AI, multi-model architectures, and enterprise automation solutions.
• Ability to define technology vision, roadmaps, and investment priorities aligned to strategic business outcomes.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.
• Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Experience driving enterprise-wide technology transformation and adoption initiatives.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India.
• Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
• Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most employees.