Software Engineering Mgr IND

About us: We are a highly successful 190-year-old, Fortune 500 commercial property insurance company of 6,000+ employees with a unique focus on science and risk engineering. Businesses worldwide trust our expertise to protect their assets, relying on our comprehensive risk assessments and robust, engineering-based insurance solutions to safeguard against fire, natural disasters, and other perils. Serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 and major corporations globally, we deliver data-driven strategies that enhance resilience, ensure business continuity, and empower organizations to thrive.

FM India is a strategic location for driving our global operational efficiency. Our presence in India allows us to leverage the countrys talented workforce and advance our capabilities to serve our clients better. We have diverse corporate functions that emphasize research, advanced technologies like AI and analytics, risk engineering, research, finance, marketing, HR, etc. working together to provide innovative solutions and nurture lasting relationships from co-workers to clients.

Role Title: Software Engineering Manager IND Position Summary: This role is a player/coach manager and a contributing member of their technology teams. Theyoversee technology delivery of their teams, which may be comprised of full-time technologists, contingent workers, and/or vendor partners. They guide technology direction and leads technical initiatives for their product teams.

They are the quality gatekeeper of their teams and ensures development, security, and test standards are followed by overseeing coding process and ensures standards and process such as code reviews, refinement, and releases are followed through their technical guidance and leadership. They are a servant leader and helps to remove obstacles from their teams proactively identifying risk and providing technology proof of concept and templates. They are focused on building strong teams and ensures their team members have the appropriate technical skills and cultural fit through coaching and mentoring.

They help to build and maximize the capabilities and skills within and across the Software Engineering department. They are responsible for the development and growth of their full-time employees and building of their individual competencies. They are responsible for team composition optimization, for reviewing priorities and assessing resource and or backlog redirection, for metrics associated with talent evolution, and for all other administrative responsibilities within the department.

They are a technologist who identifies relevant technology trends and tools that could improve skillsets within the organization and overall technology product delivery. They act as practice leader who engages with product owners as a technical SME. Job Responsibilities: Technical Value Delivery Team Level for all Team Members: Driving Delivery & Tech Needs.

Quality Gatekeeper: Coding Process, Code Reviews, Refinement, Releases, Technical Guidance & Leadership Remove Blockers - Raise Risks, CRs, Paves the Way via POCs, Templating. Removes Distractions. Team Building - Building Strong Dev Teams, Tech & Cultural Fit Eval, Coach & Mentor the Team.

Administration Team Level: Admin of/for Direct Reports both full-time and contingent: Hiring, Workday Admin, HR, Immigration, Required Training, Access, Contracts, Legal, Budgeting, Planning. Develops Talent Individual Level for Full Time Employees, 1:1s, Individual Coach & Mentor, Training, Finding New Opportunities, Performance Reviews, Promotions Assist to expand Capabilities SBE, Tech Product Level: Drives Strategy, Leading Strategic Org Objectives: Future Tech Needs, POCs, Community of Interest sponsorship. Skill and Experience: 5+ years of experiencerequired to perform essential job functions.

Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): Experience as a team lead in development and evaluating technologies, running effective technology proof of concepts. Experience interviewing, hiring and assessing personnel. Experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing highly motivated technical workforce.

Strong background in appropriate area of technology. Communication skills to provide guidance and education on new concepts and practices to engineering team members. Ability to provide clear and direction communication regarding performance and skill development.

Proven skills in coaching engineering team members in the areas of performance, standards and work methods. Proven ability to resolve conflicts in within and across teams; before they escalate (mediation skills). Ability to assist in the organization events (theme meetings, hackathons) in the subject area.

Ability to create an atmosphere of trust and comfortable and efficient work environment. Must Have Skills: Workday Technical Foundations (Integrations + Security) Key areas: Integration Architecture & Data Flow Thinking: Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors Web services (SOAP/REST APIs) Report-as-a-Service (RaaS) Security model basics (domains, business process security policies) Key capabilities: Production Support & Issue Resolution Discipline: System-to-system integration patterns Middleware familiarity (Azure Integration Services, MuleSoft, Boomi) Data transformation, orchestration, and error handling strategies Stakeholder Communication & Translation Ability : Incident triage, root cause analysis Log interpretation (Workday + middleware) SLA management and prioritization Release and tenant management (Sandbox, Preview, Prod Governance, Compliance, and Change Control: Translate HR/Finance needs into technical solutions Communicate constraints and trade-offs clearly Run effective backlog grooming and prioritization Manage vendors and external implementation partners Change management processes (migrations, releases) Audit readiness (SOX, HR data privacy) Documentation discipline (designs, configs, lineage) Role-based access and segregation of duties Education and Certifications: 4 Year /Bachelor degree required. Work location: Bengaluru