Senior Manager, Engineering Operations

Overview

Senior Manager, Engineering Operations for Abbott’s Lingo India Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, supporting delivery across the U.S., Spain, and India.

What you’ll do

• Shape culture, alignment, and delivery performance for a multi-team software portfolio delivered from India.
• Define the delivery operating model and establish portfolio governance and metrics.
• Drive predictable outcomes across schedule, scope, quality, and cost.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, QA, Security, and Compliance leaders to improve planning and execution rigor.
• Build and lead the engineering operations/delivery organization, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Standardize cross-site ways of working across the U.S., Spain, and India using shared rhythms, documentation, and communications.
• Ensure regulated product development support, including traceability, change control, evidence generation, and audit readiness.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 12+ years of experience in software delivery, program management, or engineering operations.
• 5+ years leading managers and multi-team delivery organizations.
• Demonstrated experience running engineering operations for an offshore development center or large distributed delivery portfolio, including operating model design, capacity planning, and delivery governance.
• Strong execution leadership across agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban) and scaled planning.
• Track record of predictable delivery outcomes across scope, schedule, quality, and cost, including risk management and executive-level escalation/communication.
• Experience delivering cloud-native software products and services (mobile, backend, data pipelines, and/or ML services).

Nice to have

• Experience scaling engineering operations for an offshore development center (100+ person engineering organizations).
• Experience operating in regulated environments and partnering on compliance expectations (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820/11).
• Background delivering digital health, IoT, biosensor, or data-intensive consumer platforms.
• Experience with mobile release governance (iOS/Android) and operational readiness (incident/postmortem processes).

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.